INXS (pronounced "in excess") are an Australian
rock band, formed as
The Farriss
Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are
Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar,
Andrew Farriss on keyboards,
Jon Farriss on drums,
Tim
Farriss on lead guitar and
Kirk
Pengilly on guitar/sax. For twenty years, they were fronted by
Michael Hutchence on lead vocals,
whose "sultry good looks" and magnetic stage presence made him the
focal point of the band. Initially known for their
New Wave/
ska/
pop style, they later developed a harder
pub rock style, including funk and
dance elements.
INXS achieved international success with a series of hit recordings
through the 1980s and 1990s, including the albums
Listen Like Thieves,
Kick,
X and
Welcome to Wherever You Are
and the singles "
Original
Sin", "
Need You Tonight",
"
Devil Inside" and "
New Sensation".
Hutchence died in 1997 and INXS did not perform publicly for a
year. The band made appearances with several guest singers
including
Jimmy Barnes,
Terence Trent D'Arby, and
Jon Stevens; Stevens formally joined the band
for a tour and recording session in 2002. In 2005, members of INXS
participated in a reality television series, broadcast worldwide,
culminating in the selection of their new lead singer, Canadian
J. D.
Fortune, and the release of "
Pretty Vegas" and "Afterglow" as singles, and
its album
Switch.
INXS has won six
Australian Recording
Industry Association awards including three for 'Best Group' in
1987, 1989 and 1992, and was inducted into the ARIA
Hall of Fame in 2001.. To date INXS have
sold more than 30 million records.
History
Early years
The
origins of the band began with Andrew
Farriss convincing his fellow Davidson High
School
classmate, Michael
Hutchence, to join his band, Doctor Dolphin. The band
contained two other classmates, Kent Kerny and Neil Sanders and a
bass player,
Garry Beers and Geoff
Kennely, from a nearby high school, Forest High School. In 1977,
Tim Farriss, Andrew's older brother,
invited Andrew, Hutchence and Beers to join him and his schoolmate
Kirk Pengilly. Tim and Pengilly had
been playing together since 1971 as either an acoustic duo or as a
four-piece band called Guinness (named after their bass player's
dog). Together with younger brother
Jon
Farriss they formed the Farriss Brothers consisting of Beers on
bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim
Farriss on lead guitar, Geoff Kennelly on Drums, Michael Hutchence
on lead vocals and Kirk Pengilly on guitar and saxophone.
The band
made their debut on 16 August 1977 at Whale
Beach
, 40 km (25 mi) north of Sydney. Andrew
Farriss remembers:
The
parents of the Farriss boys relocated to Perth, Western
Australia
in 1978, taking Jon to continue his schooling and,
as soon as Hutchence and Andrew finished school, the rest of the
band followed. They briefly performed as The Vegetables,
singing "We Are the Vegetables", before returning to Sydney ten
months later, where they recorded a set of demos.
At a chance meeting in
the car park of the Narabeen Antler, a pub in North
Narrabeen
. Tim was approached by
Gary Morris, the manager of
Midnight Oil.
The band began to regularly support Midnight Oil and other local
bands. Morris advised that a member of the Oils crew had come up
with a new name and suggested they change it to INXS. The name INXS
was inspired by English band
XTC and Australian
jam makers
IXL. Pengilly explained
that Morris had some other ideas:
The band's first performance as INXS was on 1 September 1979 at the
Oceanview Hotel in
Umina, New
South Wales and by the end of 1979, after passing on the
Christian band image, they hired Chris Murphy as their manager and
continued taking on the Oz the pub circuit.
Murphy was an adept business manager and negotiator. By early 1980
the band had signed a five-album record deal with a Sydney
independent label, Deluxe Records, run by Michael Browning, a
former manager of
AC/DC.
1980s
From "Simple Simon" to Shabooh Shoobah
INXS released their first single, "Simple Simon"/"We Are the
Vegetables", in Australia and France in May 1980. The single had
its debut TV performance on
Simon Townsend's Wonder
World.
Their self-titled debut album, INXS, was recorded at Trafalgar Studios in
Annandale
, Sydney, it was co-produced by the band and Duncan
McGuire (ex-Ayers Rock), with all
songs attributed to the entire band, at the insistence of
Murphy. Deluxe gave them a budget of $10,000 to record the
album, so to keep within the budget they had to record from
midnight to dawn, usually after doing one of more performances
earlier that night. The album was released in October 1980. It
featured "Just Keep Walking" which was their first Australian Top
40 single, with the album peaking in the Top 30 of the
Kent Music Report for Australian albums.
The album eventually went
gold (selling
over 35,000 units) but it took a number of years to do so.
These early records demonstrated their
New Wave/
ska/
pop style, and were followed by near constant
touring with almost 300 shows during 1981 as the band developed
their status as a live act.
In 1981, they signed Gary Grant as their tour manager, who then
became co-manager a year later. Between touring commitments, the
band released their third single in May 1981, "The Loved One",
which was a cover of a 1960s song by Australian group
The Loved Ones. The song was recorded at
Studios 301 in Sydney, produced by
Richard Clapton, and peaked in the Top
20.
The success of the single led to Clapton and the band returning to
Studio s 301 between July and August 1981 to create an album. In
October 1981, their second album
Underneath the Colours was
released and became a hit in Australia peaking at #15.
Soon after recording sessions had finished, band members started
work on outside projects. Beers, Jon and Andrew Farriss played on
Clapton's solo album,
The Great Escape. Hutchence recorded
"Speed Kills", written by
Don Walker of
Cold Chisel for the soundtrack of the
film
Freedom directed by
Scott
Hicks. It was his first solo single and was released by
WEA in early 1982.
In January, INXS
toured New
Zealand
as support act for Cold
Chisel. Band manager, Murphy, became convinced their
future no longer lay with Deluxe Records, who had been unable to
attract international interest, and decided to record a new song,
"
The One Thing" at their own
expense, with
Mark Opitz at Paradise
Studios. The song turned out so well that Murphy hired Opitz to
produce three more songs. Murphy approached
WEA Australia with copies of the song,
leading to INXS signing a recording deal in July 1982 with WEA for
releases in Australia, South East Asia, Japan and New Zealand,
Atco Records (a subsidiary of
Atlantic Records) for North America and
Polygram for Europe and the UK.
Murphy and the band weren't entirely convinced that Opitz could
produce an entire album that would attract international interest
so prior to recording their third album Pengilly, Hutchence and
Andrew Farriss visited the UK and USA, with a view to selecting a
suitable producer, only to find that no-one they wanted was
available and that most people advised them that Opitz's work on
their single was as good as they could wish for.
In mid-1982, they commenced recording at Rhinoceros Studios, with
Opitz.
In October 1982,
Shabooh
Shoobah was released internationally on Atlantic/Atco
Records, peaking at #52 on the US
Billboard 200 and #46 on the
Hot Pop Albums chart. In Australia it
peaked at #5 and remained in the albums charts for 94 weeks. The
single "The One Thing" brought them their first Top 30 hit in
United States peaking at #30 on 28 May 1983, it was a Top 20 hit in
Canada, and peaked at #14 in Australia on 23 August 1982."One
Thing" was their first video to air on the fledgling
MTV and siginficantly added to the ultimate success of
the single.
INXS undertook their first US performance in
San
Diego
in March, 1983, to a crowd of 24 patrons.
Their first tour was as support for
Adam and the Ants, then support for
Stray Cats,
The
Kinks,,
Hall & Oates
followed by
The Go-Go's. INXS played
alongside many of their contemporaries on New Wave Day in May 1983,
at the
US Festival in Devore,
California. It was during this time that Grant, their co-manager,
relocated permanently to New York to ensure a continual presence in
the northern hemisphere. The band remained on the road in the US
for most of the year, including support for
Men at Work and by mid-1983 were headlining
venues such as
The Ritz in New
York.
From "Original Sin" to Listen Like Thieves
Following
a performance in Toronto
, Canada, the
band was approached by producer Nile
Rodgers, and by September 1983, recorded "Original Sin", originally titled
"Brand New Day", at New York's Power Station Studios.
Three tracks from
Shabooh Shoobah were featured in the
soundtrack for the 1984 film
Reckless.
The band then
travelled to the UK to begin sessions on their fourth album with
Nick Launay at the Manor Studios in
Oxford
.
The album
The Swing released in
April 1984, received more significant attention from around the
world, as "Original Sin" became their first #1 single and was a
highly popular song worldwide with fans and reviewers. During 1984
it was #1 in Australia (for two weeks in January) as well as in
Argentina and France, #11 in Canada, #23 in Switzerland, #31 in the
Netherlands and #58 in the U.S. Yet "Original Sin" was largely
ignored in the UK, where INXS was described in
New Musical Express as a
"depressingly definitive example of excruciating, boring,
incredibly unimaginative MTV rock", and INXS didn't have any Top 50
chart success until the 1985 album
Listen Like Thieves.
During 1984, INXS toured non-stop performing across Europe, the UK,
the US and Australia and by December 1984,
The Swing, was
double
platinum, making it, at the time, one of the five biggest
domestic albums in the history of Australian music. In March 1985
the band re-entered Sydney's Rhinoceros Studios to record their
next album, together with producer
Chris Thomas (
Sex Pistols,
Pink
Floyd,
The Pretenders,
Elton John).
As the band were finishing the recording sessions, Thomas told the
band that the album was not good enough and still had no “killer”
track:
Andrew produced a demo tape of a
funk
song he had been working on "Funk Song No. 13" and evolved it into
"
What You Need".
Whilst the band was recording, WEA released
Dekadance, a limited edition
cassette only
EP of INXS remixes from their album
The
Swing.
On 19 May 1985, INXS won seven awards at the 1984
Countdown Music and
Video Awards ceremony. They performed "Burn for You", dressed in
Akubras (hats) and
Drizabones (outdoor coats/oilskin jackets). They
performed five songs for the July 1985
Oz
for Africa concert, in conjunction with the
Live Aid benefit. Two INXS songs, "
What You Need" and "Don't Change", were
also in the BBC broadcast and are contained on
Live Aid's four DVD boxed set released in
2004.
INXS had started out as a
New Wave
act, gradually moved in a more straight-ahead rock-oriented
direction through the first half of the 1980s.
Listen Like Thieves was released in
October 1985, was approved of by critics, reaching #3 on the
Australian charts and #11 on the US charts. With the release of
Listen Like Thieves, the band had developed a rock sound
influenced by
Led Zeppelin and
XTC, but remained true to the band's original roots in
Aussie pubs. It was also the
first album to feature songs written by a combination of band
members, with Andrew Farris and Hutchence becoming the primary
songwriters in the years to follow. The first US single from the
album, "This Time", stalled at #81 in late 1985, but the next
single, "What You Need", released there in early 1986, became a top
five
Billboard hit,
bringing INXS their first breakout US success. The single was also
a top 20 hit in Canada, reached #2 in Australia (September 1985)
but only #51 on the UK charts.
The British press dismissed the album, with
New Musical Express calling the band
'INX-cusable' and a reviewer declaring
Listen Like Thieves
to be a 'complete and utter turkey'. In the United States however
Rolling Stone Magazine wrote
"INXS rocks with passion and seals the deal with a backbeat that'll
blackmail your feet."
In August 1985, they toured ahead of the album's release, before
touring South America before returning to Melbourne to play for
Prince Charles and
Princess Diana of Wales at a
concert in Australia, it was filmed and later released on home
video entitled
Living INXS, an edited version of the
concert was played on
MTV in the US in 1985 on
their Saturday night concert series. In November, December,
January, and February INXS toured North America, Europe, and New
Zealand. The band then took a two month break, with Andrew Farriss
writing and producing "You're Gonna Get Hurt" for
Jenny Morris (who had previously
been a backing vocalist with the band), and Hutchence featuring in
Richard Lowenstein's second
feature film
Dogs in Space.
Lowenstein had previously made the video clip for "Dancing on the
Jetty". Whilst a song from the movie, "Rooms for the Memory",
written by
Ollie Olsen, with vocals by
Hutchence charted, the movie was received well by critics but was
not a commercial success.
In May 1986, the band returned to the United States and over the
next six months performed 32 European shows,including support for
Queen at their
Live at Wembley '86 concert on July
12th,42 US shows and 12 Australian shows. America's influential
Musician magazine calling them
"the best live band in the world."
From "Good Times" to Kick
Whilst supposedly taking an eight month break before commencing
work on a new album, their manager Murphy decided to stage a series
of major outdoor concerts across Australia, featuring INXS,
Jimmy Barnes,
Models,
The
Divinyls,
Mental as Anything,
The Triffids and
I'm Talking. To promote the tour INXS recorded
two songs with
Jimmy Barnes of Cold
Chisel:
The Easybeats cover "
Good Times" and "Laying Down the Law"
which Barnes co-wrote with Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss,
Hutchence and Pengilly. "Good Times" was used as the theme song for
the
Australian Made series of
concerts in the summer of 1986–1987. It peaked at #2 on the
Australian charts, and months later was featured in the
Joel Schumacher film
The Lost Boys and its
soundtrack, allowing it to peak
at #47 in the US on 1 August 1987.
After the success of "What You Need" and
Listen Like
Thieves, the band knew their new material would have to be
even better, according to Pengilly, They recorded
Kick in Sydney and Paris, it was produced
by Thomas again, but Atlantic Records was not happy with the
result, as manager Chris Murphy remembers:
Despite Atlantic's protests,
Kick was released in October
1987 and provided the band with worldwide popularity, it peaked at
#1 in Australia, #3 on the US
Billboard 200, #9 in UK, and
#15 in Austria. It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four
Top 10 US singles, "
New Sensation",
"
Never Tear Us Apart", "
Devil Inside" and #1 "
Need You Tonight". "Need You Tonight"
peaked #2 on the UK charts, #3 in Australia, and #10 in France.
They toured heavily behind the album throughout 1987 and 1988. The
video for the 1987 INXS track "Mediate" (which played after the
video for "Need You Tonight") replicated the format of Bob Dylan's
video for "
Subterranean
Homesick Blues," even in its use of apparently deliberate
errors. In September 1988 the band swept the MTV Video Music Awards
with the video for "Need You Tonight/Mediate" winning in 5
categories.
During 1989, Hutchence collaborated with
Ian
'Ollie' Olsen on a side project,
Max
Q, the two had previously worked together on Lowenstein's film
Dogs in Space. The rest of the band also took a break to
work on side projects, but soon returned to the studio to record
their follow-up album to
Kick.
1990–97: from X to Elegantly Wasted
In October 1990, INXS released
X which was produced by Thomas again and
it peaked at #3 in Australia, #5 in the US, #2 in the UK, #5 in
Switzerland and #10 in Sweden. It followed in the same vein as
Kick, and added
harmonica to some
songs.
X scored hits with "
Suicide Blonde" and "
Disappear" (both Top 10 in the US),
"Suicide Blonde" peaked at #2 in Australia, #11 in the UK and in
Switzerland. Other singles from
X were "
Bitter Tears" and "
By My Side" but they had less chart
success.
Hutchence's romance with Australian pop singer,
Kylie Minogue brought the group a new audience
of fans.
INXS performed at Wembley
Stadium
on 13 July 1991, during their "Summer XS" tour stop
in London to a sold out audience of 74,000 fans. This
performance was recorded and filmed to become the their live album
Live Baby Live (a video
version was also released under the same title), which was released
in November 1991 and peaked in the Top 30 in both Australia and UK
album charts, but had less success on The
Billboard
200.
Welcome to Wherever You
Are, produced by Mark Opitz and released in August 1992,
was an experimental album using sitars and a 60-piece orchestra
while adding a much more "raw" sound to their music. It received
good critical reviews and went #1 in the UK and in Sweden; #2 in
Australia and Switzerland, and #3 in Norway, but had less chart
success in the US peaking at #16. Singles from the album included,
"
Taste It" and "
Baby Don't Cry" which were Top 20 successes
in UK but had less success in US or Australian markets.
Full Moon, Dirty
Hearts', produced by Opitz again, was released in November
1993 and peaked at #3 on the UK charts, #4 in Australia, #8 in
Sweden, #9 in Switzerland, #14 in Norway, but did not reach the Top
50 in the US. The title track featured
The Pretenders'
Chrissie Hynde and another track, "Please
(You Got That)", featured
Ray Charles.
The band made a full video album for the record using unknown
Australian students to direct with help by
Richard Lowenstein.
Full Moon, Dirty
Hearts received mixed reviews and was the last record under
INXS' contract with Atlantic. The band took time off to rest and be
with their families, while Hutchence remained in the public eye
through modelling and film acting.
In 1997, the group released a comeback album titled
Elegantly Wasted, which garnered mixed
reviews. It fared respectably in Australia (#14), Canada (#14),
France (#30), UK (#16) (where INXS had more success in the 1990s
than in the 1980s), Belgium (#7), Switzerland (#13), but only #41
in US.
On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in his Sydney
Ritz-Carlton hotel room. On 6 February
1998, after an
autopsy and
coronial inquest, New South Wales
State Coroner, Derrick
Hand, presented his report which ruled that Hutchence's death was a
suicide while depressed and under the
influence of drugs and alcohol. Despite the official coroner's
report, fans and relatives considered his death accidental.
1997–2003: transitional years
After Hutchence's death, INXS did not perform publicly for almost a
year and then only made a few one-off performances with different
guest singers until 2000. On 28 November 1998, they played at the
Mushroom 25 Concert with
Jimmy Barnes fronting for two songs: "The Loved
One" and "Good Times".
On 12 June 1999, they headlined the opening
of Stadium
Australia
in Sydney, with US singer-songwriter Terence Trent D'Arby as guest vocalist,
they performed "New Sensation", "Kick", "Never Tear Us Apart" and
"What You Need".
Former lead singer of Australian band
Noiseworks,
Jon
Stevens began singing with INXS in May 2000. They played as one
of the headline acts at the Sydney
2000
Olympics and then toured through South America and Europe.
Stevens was officially named a member of INXS in 2002 and they
started recording new material in November. Stevens left in October
2003 to pursue a solo career, only recording a contractual
obligation song called "
I Get Up", it was
not officially released as a charting single due to it being part
of the game
EA Sports Rugby 2004 this does not constitute
a charting single. All sales of this single were not tallied in
comparison to the ARIA charts of the time. The song was used in the
Rugby Union World Cup 2003 and
the
EA Sports Rugby 2004 video game.
2004–05: Rock Star: INXS
INXS returned to the news in 2004, when it was announced that a new
reality television program titled
Rock Star: INXS would
feature a contest to find a new lead vocalist for the band. The
show, which had its debut on the
CBS network 11
July 2005, (on
Global in Canada,
VH1 in the UK and
FOX8 in
Australia), featured 15 contestants vying for the position of lead
singer. The show was executive produced by
Survivor's
Mark Burnett and hosted by
Brooke Burke and former
Jane's Addiction and
Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist
Dave Navarro.
On 20 September 2005,
J. D. Fortune (born
Jason Dean Bennison, but uses his mother's maiden name) of
Salt Springs, Nova Scotia, Canada
won the eleven-week competition, which culminated in his singing
the Rolling Stones's "
You Can't Always Get What You
Want" and INXS' "What You Need" in the finale of the show to
become the new lead singer of INXS. With Fortune they recorded
their 2005 album,
Switch produced by
Guy Chambers and went on a world tour in 2006.
Runner-up
Marty Casey was the opening
act during the first leg of the tour, along with his band, The
Lovehammers.
During the
Rock Star: INXS competition, the contestants
were challenged to write the lyrics and melody to music written by
Andrew Farriss. Originally this
challenge was divided up into two teams. When Fortune did not see
eye-to-eye with his team (that included Casey), he decided to
venture out on his own and write his own lyrics. At first Fortune's
move seemed to have doomed his chances to win the competition
(because it was perceived he couldn't work in a team), but it was
this move that resulted in his creation of the lyrics to "
Pretty Vegas". This song became a favourite of
both fans and INXS and played a major role in Fortune being able to
win the competition . "Pretty Vegas" was released 4 October 2005
and reached #5 on the
iTunes Store
ranking of top downloaded songs on its first day, it peaked at #9
in Australia, #37 on the
Billboard Hot 100, and became a
huge radio airplay hit (going platinum and reaching number one) in
Fortune's native Canada.
2005 to 2008 Reworked line up JD Fortune era
On 29 November 2005, the band's first album with Fortune as lead
singer, entitled
Switch, was released in the United States
via
Epic Records. The new lineup
started touring in support of
Switch in January 2006.
Fortune revealed he was working on material for the next INXS album
after
Switch,, but it would turn out that Fortune would
not participate in INXS's next album, and Fortune's songs would
later appear on his solo album.
In September 2006, the band and Epic Records parted ways.
INXS toured Australia and New Zealand in March 2007, with
Simple Minds and support band
Arrested Development.
After the
cancellation of a 31 August 2007 show in Cleveland, Ohio
, INXS placed a statement on their website stating
"Due to ongoing medical issues with Garry Beers' hand, the band's
doctor has urged the band to not play more than three shows in a
row or risk permanent damage to Garry's hand."
2009
The band is once again without a frontman. The band signed with
Petrol Records in December 2008, reuniting them with former manager
Chris Murphy. The band were preparing to enter the studio in March
2009 to record a new project without a singer.
On 16 February 2009,
J. D. Fortune
revealed in an interview with
Entertainment Tonight Canada
that INXS let him go from the band with a shake of the hand at an
airport in Hong Kong. Fortune admits to becoming addicted to
cocaine during his stint with the band.. J. D. Fortune is back to
living out of his car (pickup truck) and saving every dime to try
and get his solo album released (provisionally titled, "Death Of A
Motivational Speaker"). He said he's been off of all drugs
including cocaine for the past two years. He discussed his story,
along with a live performance, on Toronto's Virgin Radio.
On 23 February 2009, Chris Murphy, INXS creative director and
global business strategist and former manager, in an interview with
The Daily Telegraph, said J. D. was not sacked and, in fact, "the
band made it known to him that they had not ruled out seeing a
return by Fortune." He also states JD was next on his list to call
regarding a major recording contract he was negotiating for the
band. In an interview with Confidential on March 1, 2009, Murphy
stated "The whole thing has been bizarre - he was basically a
contractor and his contract had ended." Speaking with Billboard,
Murphy stated that he would rather part ways with the band than
work with Fortune. "If the band said to me tomorrow, 'We'd still
like you to make that call and talk to him about working on a
project,' I'd have to say 'Sorry, I have to go.'
In an interview with
Sun Media published on 6 March 2009,
J. D. Fortune clarified his claim that he had been fired at an
airport. After returning to Canada from Hong Kong, Fortune believed
there were still two more legs of the INXS 2007 tour to complete.
When the rest of the tour was cancelled and the band did not return
his calls for 10 months, he believed he was out of the band.
The band are currently recording an album in memory of Michael
Hutchence.
Brandon Flowers of the
band
The Killers revealed that he
recorded the song
Beautiful
Girl with the band.
Snow Patrol have
also revealed that they are covering
New Sensation for their upcoming Late
Night Tales album.
Rob Thomas
from the band
Matchbox Twenty
recorded the song
Never Tear Us
Apart and
Original Sin
with the band.
Gabriella Cilmi and
Eskimo Joe's
Kavyen Temperley have recorded tracks for
the project, although it is not yet known what songs that have
performed on. The album is being produced by
James Ash of
Rogue
Traders.
Influence and recognition
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, INXS was a major force in
Australian popular music, leading
the way into worldwide popularity for several Australian bands. The
band worked closely with several other Australian artists, such as
Models and ex-patriate New Zealander
Jenny Morris, helping to
establish their careers. By the mid-nineties, however, their
popularity had waned, especially in the US, where their
Greatest Hits compilation failed to reach the Top 100. At
the 1996
BRIT Awards, Michael Hutchence
presented
Oasis with an award, after
which their lead vocalist
Liam
Gallagher remarked "Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to
gonna-bes".
INXS was inducted into the
Australian Recording
Industry Association (ARIA)
Hall
of Fame on 30 October 2001. INXS has won six other ARIA Awards
including three for 'Best Group' in 1987, 1989 and 1992. The band
has also received three
Grammy nominations
over their 30-year career. In 2007, The Farriss Brothers were
inducted into the
West Australian Music
Industry Awards Hall of Fame. According to the
Recording Industry
Association of America , INXS have sold 15 million units in the
United States alone, making them the third-highest selling
Australian music act in the United States, behind AC/DC and The Bee
Gees.
Commercials
In 2002 in America,
McDonald's and
Toyota used "
New
Sensation" for a promo campaign. "New Sensation" also was
featured in the 2003 movie
Shattered
Glass It is also currently in a sofa advert in the UK.
"What You Need" featured in a Chevy trucks advertising campaign. In
Australia, "
By My Side" has
been used by
NRMA Insurance on and off for
eight years. "
The One Thing" is
featured in
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Stories under the fictional radio station
Flash
FM.
Discography
For a complete discography, see INXS discography.
Members
Listed chronologically:
On tour/special performances:
Awards and nominations
INXS has won and been nominated for numerous music awards. These
include
ARIA Awards,
Grammys,,
MTV
Awards.
ARIA Awards
INXS has won seven
Australian Recording
Industry Association Awards. The band was inducted into the
ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001
alongside
The Saints. This
induction recognised their achievement of a "significant body of
recorded work" and that they "had a cultural impact within
Australia". INXS has won six other ARIA Awards including three for
'Best Group' in 1987, 1989 and 1992.
|
| 1987 |
INXS |
Best Group |
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| 1989 |
INXS |
Outstanding Achievement |
|
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| "Never Tear Us Apart" |
Best Video |
|
|
| INXS |
Best Group |
|
|
| 1992 |
Live Baby Live |
Best Group |
|
|
| 1993 |
"Baby Don't Cry", "Heaven Sent",
"Taste It" |
Engineer of the Year |
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| Welcome to Wherever
You Are |
Best Group |
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| 1994 |
"The Gift" |
Best Video |
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| Full Moon, Dirty
Hearts |
Best Group |
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| 2001 |
INXS |
Hall of Fame |
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| 2004 |
I'm Only Looking |
Best Music DVD |
Countdown Awards
Countdown
was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster
ABC-TV from 1974–1987, it presented
music awards from 1979–1987, initially in conjunction with magazine
TV Week but then independently. The
Countdown Music and Video Awards were succeeded by the
ARIA Awards. INXS won seven awards at
the 1984 awards ceremony, which was broadcast on 25 May 1985. On 20
April 1986 they won three further Countdown awards for
1985.
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| 1980 |
INXS |
Johnny O'Keefe New Talent |
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| 1984 |
"Burn for You" |
Best Group Performance in a Video |
|
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| The Swing |
Best Album |
|
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| INXS |
Most Popular Australian Group |
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|
| Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence |
Best Songwriter |
|
|
| "Burn for You" |
Best Promotional Video |
|
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| INXS |
Most Outstanding Achievement |
|
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| Michael Hutchence |
Most Popular Male |
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| 1985 |
"What You Need" |
Best Video |
|
|
| INXS |
Most Popular Australian Group |
|
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| INXS |
Most Outstanding Achievement |
Grammy Awards
INXS received two nominations for 'Rock Vocal Group' at the
Grammys.
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| 1988 |
Kick |
Rock Vocal Group |
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| 1990 |
"Suicide Blonde" |
Rock Vocal Group |
MTV Video Music Awards
INXS won five MTV Video Music
Awards for their 1988 song "Need
You Tonight".
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| 1986 |
"What You
Need" |
Best Group Video |
|
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| 1988 |
"Need You Tonight" |
Viewer's Choice |
|
|
| "Need You Tonight" |
Video of the Year |
|
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| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Special Effects |
|
|
| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Group Video |
|
|
| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Concept Video |
|
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| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Art Direction |
|
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| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Editing |
|
|
| "Need You Tonight" |
Best Breakthrough Video |
|
|
| "Devil Inside" |
Best Editing |
|
|
| 1989 |
"New Sensation" |
Best Art Direction |
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