INXS were rising figures in their home country – but not yet superstars – when they decided to shift focus. Their self-titled debut had barely crept into the Australian Top 30. INXS followed that up ...

In a post-Harvey Weinstein world, waxing nostalgic about the days when inappropriate physical contact and sexual harassment were more accepted by society at large (or at least less chastised) isn’t ...

Andrew Farriss invited high school classmate Michael Hutchence to join his band Doctor Dolphin in Sydney, Australia in the mid-’70s. Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim joined the ...

When INXS released “Original Sin” as the leadoff single from their 1984 album The Swing, the song did not make an immediate commercial impact in the U.S. While it failed to crack the Top 40 on both ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. To my mind, and ...