After Hutchence committed suicide in 1997, Jon Stevens took over the lead spot for a few years before the band chose new frontman J.D. Fortune through the reality TV show Rock Star: INXS.

STUDIO TENSIONS "Original Sin" started taking shape more than two years ago as "a kooky idea" while INXS was jamming in a studio, according to drummer Jon Farris, the concept's main cheerleader.

Drummer Jon Farris and bassist Garry Gary Beers laid down that irresistible backbeat. On either side of Hutchence, saxophonist Kirk Pengilly and guitarist Tim Farris added powerful honking and ...

INXS: (l-r) Garry Gary Beers, Andrew Farris, Tim Farriss, Michael Hutchence, Jon Farriss, Kirk Pengilly Murphy Media Academy ...

Jon Farris was preparing for marriage. Watch INXS Perform 'Baby Don't Cry' "The album is very much Andrew, Michael and myself," Opitz said in INXS: Story to Story.

But while today the awards are bigger and arguably better- as well as being televised- seeing famed INXS bandmates and brother Tim and Jon Farris walking the red carpet is one thing that hasn't ...

The original band members -- the Farris brothers, Andrew, John and Tim; Garry Gary Beers; and Kirk Pengilly -- decided to play on after Hutchence's death, bringing in New Zealander Jon Stevens as ...

INXS 's eighth album kicks off with a song called "Questions" - which is appropriate because there are still queries about where Welcome to Wherever You Are fits in the band's story. Coming off ...

Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim joined the band along with Garry Beers and Kirk Pengilly, as the sextet changed their name to the Farris Brothers, the Vegetables, and ...

For their first album in five years, INXS are "reimagining" their classic hits with different arrangements and singers, including Ben Harper, Rob Thomas and the Killers' Brandon Flowers. The still ...

Farriss, his brothers Jon and Tim, and friends Kirk Pengilly and Garry Beers, formed the band that would become INXS in the late 70s. They started playing on the northern beaches of Sydney in 1977 ...

INXS cofounder Tim Farriss tells UCR about their rise to fame during a May 2025 interview.