My original plan was to be a swimmer but a broken arm put paid to that so my fallback was to become a poet but that developed into songwriting for the Dolphins who by now was called The Farriss Brothers, then The Vegetables and finally INXS as suggested by another Australian Band, Midnight Oil, because we sucked at band names obviously.
Throughout the early 1980's, INXS kept chugging along and establishing themselves in Australia with me as the frontman and then in 1988 and our second album, Kick, and the 'Need You Tonight' single from it, launched us into global fame and five MTV Video Music Awards came around in 1988, INXS’s name came up several times. The music video for 'Need You Tonight allowed us to take home five awards.
In 1990, INXS released the hit single 'Suicide Blonde', inspired by my then girlfriend Kylie Minogue and the public loved us even more and we were winning BRIT Awards and I beat Bon Jovi and Prince as Best International Male Solo Artist and we were flying and then it all came crashing down because our third album sank.
The band took a rest but i never, dating Belinda Carlisle, Helena Christensen and Kym Wilson and i became labelled a wild man of rock when i became embroiled in a few brawls with journalists and one Danish taxi driver in-particular who fractured my skull on the pavement and damaged my brain and i lost my senses of taste and smell.
Then i was asked on the Big Breakfast and met Paula Yates, the wife of Bob Gedolf who was just as wild as me and it ended as obvious as you would expect, me hanging myself with my belt from the door handle in a hotel room while high and drunk.
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