Kick would be the second of three straight INXS albums produced by Chris Thomas. More importantly, it was the second to drill in on the emerging collaborative genius of Michael Hutchence and Andrew ...

Electronic drums and power chords signal the album-opener Guns In The Sky, Hutchence’s vocal spitting across the track, before we get to the jangly-guitared New Sensation, where Beers’ pedalled ...

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 ...