Andrew Farriss has been writing and creating music most of his life. He was co-founder, keyboardist, and main composer for INXS, the Australian band that rocketed to fame in the 1980’s with songs like ...

Andrew Farriss invited high school classmate Michael Hutchence to join his band Doctor Dolphin in Sydney, Australia in the mid-’70s. Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim joined the ...

There was always something a little disreputable about INXS. Despite being one of the bigger rock bands on the planet for the better part of a decade, releasing a string of critically and commercially ...

BUSSUM, NETHERLANDS - 10th NOVEMBER: Australian band INXS pose in Bussum, Netherlands on 10th November 1992. The band members are Garry Gary Beers, Andrew Farriss, John Farriss, Tim Farriss, Kirk ...

The members of INXS never believed that their music died with lead singer Michael Hutchence in 1997. But the band faced a problem: how to take 17 years of music, including several big '80s hits, back ...

For most of his music career, Andrew Farriss was happily in the backline for INXS. He was the group’s primary songwriter, mind you, an Australian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame inductee who, with the late ...

What was it like to read all these fan memories in the book? Farriss: The books’ amazing. It’s amazing that when people are really dedicated fans of an artist or a band or whatever, they’ll go to ...

The guy who made some of the best dance-rock music ever has been a country fan most of his life. As a teenager growing up in rough-and-tumble Australia, Andrew Farris - cofounder, ...