INXS

With a career spanning 25 extraordinary years, INXS are undoubtedly one of the world’s great bands. With more than 30 million records sold worldwide, countless awards from their peers and fans, platinum certifications, and a history peppered with outstanding achievements, the band are arguably Australia’s most successful rock export.
Throughout the 80s and into the 90s INXS were a consummate global rock band with a musical distillation of strength, sensitivity, unity and intelligence. Determined, dedicated and sure -footed, INXS propelled themselves out of the frantic new wave, indie label environment of Sydney, Australia at the end of the 70s with such energy and resilience that in less than a decade they were being hailed by major music journals as being, with U2 and Guns N' Roses, one of the three biggest bands in the world.
With each step of their path to the upper strata of international music carefully considered and deftly executed, they performed before gauchos in Buenos Aires, Royals in Melbourne and teens in Tokyo, on their way to number one American singles, headlining before 75,000 at Wembley Stadium - a show captured and released on DVD in the shape of "Live Baby Live" , playing to 100,000 at Rock In Rio, seven MTV awards, three Grammy nominations, and albums which hit #1 all over the world.
In Australia INXS celebrated their first number one single with "Original Sin" in December 1983, beginning a phenomenal run of 38 top 40 hits. By the time they had charted their fourth hit down under, with "The One Thing" in 1982, INXS had overcome the tyranny of distance to make their way into the American Top Thirty with the same song - the first of 17 Billboard hits, 7 of which were top tens. Britain came on line a little later, with their 23 hit run commencing with "What You Need" in 1986. There were six consecutive Top Ten U.K. and U.S. albums
The death of Michael Hutchence in November 1997 had a profound impact on the members of INXS, who had been close friends and collaborators for two full decades. The future for the band was very much uncertain.
One year on they teamed up with vocalist Jimmy Barnes to reprise that collaboration at the 25th Birthday concert of Australia's Mushroom Records in Melbourne, slaying the audience with the strength and good-natured tone of their performance. Six months later, with guest vocalist Terence Trent D'Arby, they returned to the concert stage, before 90,000 and a vast television audience, to officially open Sydney's Olympic Stadium with a blistering performance.
Although the five musicians had involved themselves in a wide array of songwriting, production and playing projects, the desire to return to full performance as INXS could not be denied.
A May 2000 concert - the first with Jon Stevens on vocals - saw 1200 loyal fans scrambling for tickets. By the middle of 2002 the inevitable and inexorable return of INXS to the international concert arena saw the band depart for South, Central and North America on a full-scale tour reminiscent of their legendary 80s jaunts around the planet.
2005 opened with the announcement of INXS's plans for the year ahead - INXS Rock Star. In conjunction with Mark Burnett Productions, the band searched for their new singer using an "unscripted drama" TV series taking place in 20 cities across 6 continents. The show was a smash hit and with their new lead singer, J.D. Fortune, they are now finally whole again and ready to prove they are still undoubtably one of the world’s best bands.

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