I grew up in the 80's and INXS was a big part of my life since music was all we had to entertain us back then. I recently work up with Don't Change playing in my head so pulled it up and listened to it. I was flooded with memories from my youth and watching this band grow in popularity. That prompted me into exploring all about INXS and the numerous biographies about them and Michael. I really had no idea there was that much about his life and all they (he) went through. I wondered why I got so captured by their (his) story and then it dawned on me, he was a man that seemed to maintain his childlike innocence as an adult. You could tell he didn't have a malicious bone in his body and was also almost too vulnerable, especially to the media and those that would take advantage of him. It 's like looking at someone that you wished you would have retained in yourself; he looked at people, places, foods and reality with such joy and not the mundane, bitterness we slowly employ...if not careful. And the injury he sustained from not only his olfactory (smell) but also the frontal/temporal lobe caused such personality changes (Howard Hugh Syndrome) seem to steal all that away from him. Watching all his joy slowly be changed and driven out of him was a mirror to us all losing our own joy over time.
The Band was like no other in their stability and lasting friendship, ability to continue to play together as mates with a front man that had Mick J taking notes...will never be recreated. Prayfully he'll be in Glory but the rest of us are left to go on with this place as little bit darker without him in it. Godspeed MH
The Band was like no other in their stability and lasting friendship, ability to continue to play together as mates with a front man that had Mick J taking notes...will never be recreated. Prayfully he'll be in Glory but the rest of us are left to go on with this place as little bit darker without him in it. Godspeed MH