When was inxs formed

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He and lead singer Michael Hutchence team up to write most of the group's songs. Timeline : INXS. January 24, INXS guitarist Tim Farriss severs the ring finger on his left hand while operating a winch on his boat. July 12, Playgirl magazine publishes their list of the 10 sexist rockers.

September 7, INXS play the first of two concerts in Guam, a small island in the Pacific that rarely draws major acts. However, such success went to the group's head. Hutchence released the "experimental" side project Max Q in early , and the record tanked. While the album generated several hits, including "Disappear" and "Bitter Tears," only its first single, "Suicide Blonde," reached the Top Ten in the U.

X hurt INXS ' momentum considerably. Although the group was still quite popular on its accompanying tour -- the live album Live Baby Live was recorded at Wembley Stadium, the second largest stadium in Europe -- the group could no longer be considered in the same league as U2 or R.

Hutchence continued to live a jet-setting lifestyle, dating Kylie Minogue and various supermodels, which did not wear well in the wake of alternative rock's commercial breakthrough in By the time INXS released Welcome to Wherever You Are , their most adventurous record, they were out of date in , and even a rash of reviews that favorably compared the record to U2 's Achtung Baby couldn't make it a hit.

Full Moon, Dirty Hearts followed in and was generally ignored. During that time, Hutchence was involved in several tabloid scandals, most notably his love affair with British TV personality Paula Yates which brought an end to her marriage to Bob Geldof , and he hinted that he was recording a solo album.

While the album was greeted with poor reviews, its hedonistic dance-rock was better suited to the late '90s than the early '90s, which made the record the group's biggest hit since X. On November 22 of that year, however, Hutchence was found dead in his Sydney hotel room, the victim of an apparent hanging.

His long-in-the-works solo debut was posthumously issued in late Terence Trent D'Arby took the frontman role for an abbreviated set at the opening of Sydney's Stadium Australia in , and Jon Stevens filled the spot for occasional gigs that took place through the end of The latter singer eventually left to pursue a solo career.

The winner was J. Fortune , a former Elvis impersonator from Canada. Fortune joined INXS , sang on their album Switch , and participated in the accompanying world tour. Switch only charted well in Fortune 's native Canada, though, and his cocaine habit drove a wedge between Fortune and his bandmates as the tour wound down. Another period of inactivity followed.