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INXS To Re-Release 'Kick' With Unseen Michael Hutchence Footage
Rockers INXS are putting out previously unseen footage of frontman Michael Hutchence to mark the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough album Kick.
The band is reissuing the iconic 1987 release, which has become one of the biggest-selling Australian albums of all time with more than 14 million copies shifted worldwide.
The new deluxe edition, set to hit shelves in September, will include unheard demos, a tour poster, documentary clips of Hutchence, and never-before-seen handwritten lyrics by the singer, who died in 1997.
INXS manager Chris Murphy says, "It'll be an amazing, super-dupe...
READ MOREThe band is reissuing the iconic 1987 release, which has become one of the biggest-selling Australian albums of all time with more than 14 million copies shifted worldwide.
The new deluxe edition, set to hit shelves in September, will include unheard demos, a tour poster, documentary clips of Hutchence, and never-before-seen handwritten lyrics by the singer, who died in 1997.
INXS manager Chris Murphy says, "It'll be an amazing, super-dupe...
INXS Dump Lead Singer J.D. Fortune Again
Australian rockers INXS have fired their frontman J.D. Fortune for the second time in two years.
The singer won his place in the band in 2005 after triumphing in U.S. TV talent search Rock Star: INXS, but he was booted from the line-up in 2009 and forced to seek help for a drug abuse problem that was spiraling out of control.
Fortune was welcomed back to the Original Sin hit-makers as Michael Hutchence's permanent replacement in January - but the reunion has been brief and the singer recently revealed he had not been included in plans for the band's new music.
In a post on his Twitter...
READ MOREThe singer won his place in the band in 2005 after triumphing in U.S. TV talent search Rock Star: INXS, but he was booted from the line-up in 2009 and forced to seek help for a drug abuse problem that was spiraling out of control.
Fortune was welcomed back to the Original Sin hit-makers as Michael Hutchence's permanent replacement in January - but the reunion has been brief and the singer recently revealed he had not been included in plans for the band's new music.
In a post on his Twitter...
U2 Dedicate A Song To Amy Winehouse
U2 have honored Amy Winehouse by dedicating a song to the tragic singer during a gig in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The band was playing at the city's TCF Stadium on Saturday, the day the tragic Rehab hit-maker was found dead at her home in Camden, north London.
The group proceeded to pay tribute to Winehouse during the show, dedicating their 2001 track Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of to her. The song was originally written for late INXS rocker Michael Hutchence, who committed suicide in 1997.
Frontman Bono told the crowd, "We wrote this next song for Michael Hutchence, but you wil...
READ MOREThe band was playing at the city's TCF Stadium on Saturday, the day the tragic Rehab hit-maker was found dead at her home in Camden, north London.
The group proceeded to pay tribute to Winehouse during the show, dedicating their 2001 track Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of to her. The song was originally written for late INXS rocker Michael Hutchence, who committed suicide in 1997.
Frontman Bono told the crowd, "We wrote this next song for Michael Hutchence, but you wil...
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