Inxs. Anthony Bozza

by Anthony Bozza, INXS, INXS Publications

Book Overview

THE REAL STORY BEHIND INXS'S RISE TO FAME -- AND HOW THEY HELPED DEFINE THE MUSIC OF A GENERATION. INXS broke new musical ground. This Australian band, made up of three brothers and their three best... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593055179
• ISBN13: 9780593055175
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

great book

This is a great book. If your an INXS fan this is for you. I couldn't put it down. Nice behind the scene info.

A Must for INXS fans

This is a must for any INXS fan, new or old. Great history of how the band started and all the trails and tribulations. Even for a non-INXS fan, it's a great count of a band starting from the beginning through their rise to success.

I'm glad I found this!

I looked for this book everywhere and no one had it. I'm so glad I was able to find it here. Really, I wish I had it a lot sooner.

YOU THINK YOU KNEW INXS

So, you think that you knew INXS. Maybe what you knew was what you read or saw on TV. Well, here's your opportunity to know the truth as this is the only biography of the band that is sanctioned and participated in by the band. INXS is a band of brothers, three blood brothers, Farriss, and three soul-brothers, Beers, Pengilly, and Hutchence. This is a book that allows the reader an opportunity to see a glimpse of their rise to fame, their perserverence in an often difficult music world, and the tragic events that led to Hutchence's departure from this world. The reader is allowed to glance at the remaining band members' sorrow and their soul searching that Hutchence's death brought about. It is also the story of a journey, of the path that led the remaining members of the INXS family to seek a new member of the band, not to replace Hutchence, but to continue the musical journey that was begun by all six members of the band. This is a band whose light was dimmed by the loss of Hutchence, but whose light was never completely doused. This is a band who, like the family that they are, needed private moments to reflect, needed to wrap their minds around the events that led to their brother's death, and needed to have an outlet to express themselves. Music has always been INXS' outlet and has always allowed them the opportunity to work out their problems, insecurities, and dreams. And the music had ended without an encore in November of 1997. Any true fan of INXS should read this book. Please read the book with an open mind. Even those fans who believe that replacing Hutchence through the reality TV series Rock Star INXS was tastless and commercial should read this book. Listen to what the remaining band members say. Listen to how they describe themselves and listen to how they describe Hutchence. It is plain to see that these are men who have done an incredible amount of soul searching, who have blamed themselves for not being able to stop their brother's downward spiral, who have replayed those final hours in their minds so many times that they became raw from the experience. This book is about the hope that they each have been able to take from their self-reflection and about the vision that they each believe INXS has yet to complete. Finally, ask yourself as you read this book, if I died would I want my family to break apart and not be the same family ever again, or would I want my family to try to continue as a family? I, personally, would want my family to try to move on without me. I would never want my family to disentigrate because of my death. Finally, this book is about healing. The band's healing from the death of Hutchence and about the fan's healing through an understanding of the true personalities of the remaining members of INXS. As a true INXS fan from the early moments of their careers, I am happy that they participated in this book and I am happy that, once again, the bright beacon of INXS music is being h

deeply saddened

I hope now michael hutchence can finally rest.This book was a great read for me,the facts are true and official from everyone who participated unlike alot of the other garbage the media and people trying to make money off his tragic ending were writting. You must read this if you are a true fan of this band and what they were about. Stop the digging of info and constant bickering of his death. Its done he is gone but never forgotten. This book is definitely a tribute to michael hutchence.