I was at their concert at Summerfest in 1987, but it got rained out.
I saw them 6 months later that the Aragonne Ballroom in Chicago, a small venue where Michael lit up the entire place with an energy that I have never seen since. He sat 20' above the stage on top of the amps and sang “what you need” then he jumped down and ran all over the stage. This was in 1987 after I had been listening to them for over 5 years and he filled that small venue with an unbelieveable aura. My wife and I have been going to concerts for over 20 years and this is my favorite!
Here is a great piece written about him and the band at that time that says it all:
Long before Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Scott Stapp of Creed began setting women's hearts a flutter across the globe, there was another brooding young singer with smoldering good looks and a sexual rawness that until that point had not been seen on a concert stage since Jim Morrison fronted the Doors a dozen years before.
This god-like frontman who seemed to embody the energy of the atom and the charisma of a modern day Valentino, was an Aussie lad named Michael Hutchence and his band from down under was INXS.
God Bless you Michael. You will always be remembered!!!
I saw them 6 months later that the Aragonne Ballroom in Chicago, a small venue where Michael lit up the entire place with an energy that I have never seen since. He sat 20' above the stage on top of the amps and sang “what you need” then he jumped down and ran all over the stage. This was in 1987 after I had been listening to them for over 5 years and he filled that small venue with an unbelieveable aura. My wife and I have been going to concerts for over 20 years and this is my favorite!
Here is a great piece written about him and the band at that time that says it all:
Long before Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Scott Stapp of Creed began setting women's hearts a flutter across the globe, there was another brooding young singer with smoldering good looks and a sexual rawness that until that point had not been seen on a concert stage since Jim Morrison fronted the Doors a dozen years before.
This god-like frontman who seemed to embody the energy of the atom and the charisma of a modern day Valentino, was an Aussie lad named Michael Hutchence and his band from down under was INXS.
God Bless you Michael. You will always be remembered!!!