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The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Desmond Child, [2] and was a tribute to Michael Hutchence, one of INXS' founders, who committed accidental suicide in 1997.In singing the song, J.D. Fortune, winner of Rock Star: INXS, described his role in Hutchence's legacy—his "afterglow".
Both the video and the song pay homage to the promotional film clip for Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", as the members flip cue cards with words from the song on them, followed by Kirk Pengilly with a Soprano saxophone solo. Beneath the lyric "a special date" in the "Mediate" portion of the video, the cue card shown reads "9-8-1945".
On 14 April 2006, a DualDisc version of the album was released in Australia. The CD audio side of the disc features the album in full. The DVD side contains all 11 songs in enhanced stereo, "The Making of Switch", a video documentary directed by Matt Skerritt, produced by Gregg Gilmore and Calvin Aurand and the "Pretty Vegas" music video.
Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by INXS.The Sydney-based group had formed in 1977 by the three Fariss brothers: Andrew on guitar and keyboards, Jon on percussion and drums, and Tim on guitar, along with Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Michael Hutchence as lead vocalist, and Kirk Pengilly on guitar, saxophone, and vocals.
The B-sides on the first CD single included INXS's biggest hit "Need You Tonight", a 1995 mix of "Original Sin" by Chris & James and a remix of album track "I'm Only Looking" from Full Moon, Dirty Hearts by David Morales. The second CD single included three remixes of "Elegantly Wasted" by dance artists Shagsonic and G-Force.
As of 2018, INXS has sold over 50 million records worldwide. [77] [78] INXS was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. [79] Hutchence's solo album, Michael Hutchence, was released in October 1999. [10] He had started on the album in 1995, recording songs in between INXS sessions; he had last worked on it three days before his death.
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"Everything" is a song by Australian rock band INXS, released as the second single from their 10th studio album, Elegantly Wasted (1997). It was released only in Mexico, Europe, and Australia. The song was written by Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss and recorded by the band in Dublin in mid-1996.