coming up … I actually have a tool that tells me what the most requested song story is from you...our viewers and today we're covering it with an exclusive interview with the songwriter who wrote this 80s classic. It’s Don’t Change by legendary band INXS. Written by the underrated team of lead singer and showstopping frontman Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss. It wasn’t a huge hit when it came out but over time it’s become a powerful anthem that many have covered and it shows this legendary band at their very best. Released in 1983 it would pave the way for the band's huge breakout a few years later Kick where they were arguably the biggest band of the late 80s with a frontman for the ages in Michael Hutchence So here it is. The most requested song from our comments and our viewers on Professor of Rock…
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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs and albums. I found out the other day that over the last few years the most requested song story from our viewers is about Don't Change by INXS.
I was somewhat surprised since it wasn’t a massive hit. It was a full 4 years before Kick would knock radio out of the park and crown them as one of the biggest bands in the world with their incredibly charismatic frontman Michael Hutchence the Jim Morrison of Generation X and their dynamic songwriting master Andrew Farriss. Don’t Change a Thing became an empowering Anthem of the times and years later it is one of the band’s most beloved tunes. Here’s the thing I hate to keep beating this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dead horse but How in the Mighty Hell is Inxs not in the Rock Hall of Fame?
They check every box on the so-called list. in 1988 they were arguably the biggest band on planet earth. They were right there with U2 and Def Leppard and Guns N Roses as Kick was like a greatest hits album with every song a potential single. It’s ridiculous. it’s actually ludicrous. They had hits with several chart toppers and many big hits including several that could be considered outright standards of the music canon... they had the influence.
I mean Matty Healy of The 1975 certainly takes after Michael Hutchence in many ways as do other pop stars from the 90s to now including Savage Garden to Harry Styles. If Jim Morrison wrote the book on what a frontman could be… Michael Hutchence certainly finished it. Obviously, their commercial peak started to decline in the mid-90s and their career was cut short with the loss of Hutchence in 1997.
But there are plenty of artists that had less continuity in the hall and had Hutchence lived. he and the band would have undoubtedly made more great music and they'd be selling out stadiums still because the big hit still moves the needle.
