INXS have sunk to a new low by coming across as disloyal backstabbers to the memory of their late singer Michael Hutchence.
In an interview broadcast on the Seven Network in Australia for the Sunday Night program INXS sax player Kirk Pengilly revealed that Michael was planning to leave Paula Yates at the time of his death.
“Just prior to his death, that week or so, what he told me he had a plan in place to basically split up with Paula,” Pengilly told 7’s Sunday Night program.
The startling and unsubstantiated comment was a mindblowing misuse of loyalty to the man who was the driving force to the band’s international success and fortune. Michael died one week later and the Pengilly hearsay can never be proven. Michael therefore never left Paula. Had he lived, he might have also discovered that he was surrounded by backstabbers and left the band anyway.
The TV movie ‘INXS: Never Tear Us Apart’ was more of an unauthorised Michael Hutchence expose than it is the history of INXS. Why was Michael the only member of the band portrayed as a drug abuser? Why was Andrew Farriss referred to as “the genius” on multiple occasions but Michael’s co-writing not given the same accolades considering they wrote the songs together? Why did ‘INXS: Never Tear Us Apart’ focus on Michael’s multiple relationships yet fail to mention Kirk’s high-profile and failed marriage to Deni Hines? Why did Kirk himself in last night’s interview talk all about Michael’s girlfriends but never about his own?
‘INXS: Never Tear Us Apart’ was made without approval or authorisation from the Estate of Michael Hutchence. The show was a rating success in Australia generating more than 2.2 million viewers in the first week. It has also succeeded in reminding Australian’s about the music of a great Australian band.
INXS have seven albums on this week’s ARIA chart and nine singles in the Top 100.
INXS Albums on the ARIA chart for February 22, 2014
1. The Very Best
2. Kick
17. Live At Wembley Stadium 1991
25. The Swing
33. Shabooh Shoobah
36. Listen Like Thieves
98. X
INXS Singles on the ARIA chart for February 22, 2014
11. Never Tear Us Apart
25. Need You Tonight
53. By My Side
54. New Sensation
57. Original Sin
59. Don’t Change
67. Beautiful Girl
81. Mystify
95. What You Need
106. Kick
108. Devil Inside
113. Burn For You
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