INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
The life and times of Australian stadium rockers INXS hit New Zealand televisions this week in Never Tear Us Apart , a two-part mini-series that covers the Michael Hutchence-led phase of the band’s career. INXS guitarist Tim Farris says of the mini-series - “The whole thing misses those little in-jokes. You can’t get them across, really, in television - the in-jokes that were going on amongst the band at the time when we were doing everything we did to conquer Mt Everest .”
Since Hutchence died in 1997, INXS have had a handful of other vocalists front the band, including a stint with former Elvis impersonator J.D. Fortune, a singer sourced through their mid- 2000s reality television show , Rockstar: INXS. INXS are now no longer, but memories of the band’s Wembley-filling heyday are still fresh in their minds. INXS’s Tim Farris and Kirk Pengilly talk to Sam Wicks about Never Tear Us Apart and how and why they found multiple replacements for their founding frontman. Playlist A...