INXS Anniversary Flashback: Their 7 Best Album Tracks

Celebrating the hits that weren’t, 39 years after the band’s debut.

Jeremy Helligar
Sep 1, 2018 · 5 min read
Sometimes you ‘Kick.’ Sometimes you get kicked. (Photo: flickr/Lawren)

On September 1, 1979, the Australian band INXS performed its first-ever concert at the Ocean Beach Hotel in Umina, a suburb on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Within four years, the sextet led by Michael Hutchence — whose sexy strut and swagger was one…

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Jeremy Helligar

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Brother. Son. Friend. Writer. Journalist. World Traveler. History-Obsessed Anxiety Survivor. Loner. Author of “Is It True What They Say About Black Men?”

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