INXS: Story to Story
INXS: Story to Story

Author: INXS Publications

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13: 074329002X

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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 mates, took the world by storm, turning rock, pop, and funk into a cutting edge, danceable style, and selling more than thirty million albums worldwide. INXS: Story to Story tells the tale of their incredible journey, from playing the world's biggest concert venues to living a high life rivaling any in rock history, filled with sex, drugs, and supermodels. Now for the first time, they reveal everything they experienced in their more than two decades of making music -- the partying, the pressure, the wild times on the road, the heights and depths of rock-star life, and the bonds of brotherhood and friendship that not only got them through the tough times but made the fun times even more intense. They also talk about the sadness of watching their closest friend and collaborator, Michael Hutchence, slipping away from them, and share their thoughts about why he left them far too soon. Fully authorized and reflecting the band's firsthand point of view, this is the real story behind the phenomenon that is INXS -- and the book every rock fan will need to own.

Just a Man
Just a Man

Author: Tina Hutchence

Publisher: Pan

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780330390194

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This is the tragic true story of Michael Hutchence, by the women who knew him best. Since his death in 1997, his mother and sister have read tales spun by people who only knew him for a fraction of his 37 years, if at all. This intimate biography aims to set the record straight.

One Way or Another
One Way or Another

Author: Nikki McWatters

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1921870583

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In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a rock star. With three friends she starts the Vulture Club for aspiring groupies – and so begins a festival of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. As Nikki gets older, her conquests get bigger and the stakes get higher. From Australian Crawl to INXS, Pseudo Echo to Duran Duran, she is living her teenage dream – but is the groupie life all it’s cracked up to be? One Way or Another is an irresistible romp through a world of pub rock, big hair, wild nights and mornings after. With irrepressible humour and a bulging little black book, Nikki McWatters recalls an age when everything seemed possible – even if everything wasn’t such a good idea. ‘A vivid, heartfelt trip into the human side of rock ’n’ roll ... Painfully honest and insightful, this is a Puberty Blues for the ’80s generation.’ —Richard Lowenstein, director of Dogs in Space and He Died with a Felafel in His Hand ‘McWatters renders her story with skill, sensitivity, wit and honesty ... a fascinating look into some of rock’s seedier aspects.’ —Bookseller+Publisher ‘A great Australian rock ’n’ roll read’ —Steve Kilbey

Burn
Burn

Author: Ed St. John

Publisher: Transworld Publishers

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780733801822

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In-depth biography of INXS & Hutchence. Covers history of the band, music, life on the road, and questions surrounding Hutchence's death.

Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence

Author: Vincent Lovegrove

Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781864488944

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Michael Hutchence's controversial suicide two years ago shocked music fans around the world. This behind-the-scenes examination of his life traces Hutchence's rise from pub-band obscurity to rock star and sex symbol status. HIS story is retold by family members, fellow musicians, school churns, girlfriends, and his numerous friends and acquaintances familiar with his exploits and misadventures in LA, New York, Sydney, and London. Fans will appreciate learning new details about Hutchence's life before INXS and his coming of age in Sydney during the swinging '60s. They will observe his meteoric rise to multiplatinum superstardom with the release of Kick and shire in his last troubled hours. This biography gets past the publicity and hype of Hutchence's rock idol veneer to uncover the sensitive, troubled man behind the facade.

Murphy
Murphy

Author: C. M. Murphy

Publisher: Murphy Media Academy

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780987554604

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Good Goal, Son Those were the last words my father ever said to me. They have had more impact on my life than all the words that I've heard other people say, or I've read in books, or I've heard in songs. Those three words have powered my passion to succeed, no matter what.- CM Murphy CM Murphy's blissful rural childhood of surfing, billy carting and ice-hockey came to an abrupt halt after the untimely death of his father, theatrical agent Mark Murphy, when Chris was just 14. Murphy's mother took over the family agency in Sydney, where Chris worked from the age of 17 until he went out on his own to become one of the world's top music managers. Murphy is best known as being the manager of INXS from 1980-95, but also established the rooArt and Petrolrecord labels, was owner of one of Australia's top radio stations, was a pioneer of digital radio and publishing as well as an innovator in the organic food industry. From high school dropout, to global media entrepreneur, this is the story of a driven, self-made man who sets his sights on a goal, scores, then asks himself 'What's next?'. It was fascinating finding out how CM Murphy was made - Zach Horowitz, CEO Universal Music publishing Chris Murphy is sort of like our evil alter ego. - Michael Hutchence, INXS Publicity1st February ReleaseChannel 7 TV mini series tie in early February 2014 (Chris Murphy Executive Producer)Appearances on 'Sunday' and 'Sunrise' Channel 7Exclusive extract The AustralianPublicist Appointed

Anything for a Hit
Anything for a Hit

Author: Dorothy Carvello

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0912777931

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Dorothy Carvello knows all about the music biz. She was the first female A&R executive at Atlantic Records, and one of the few in the room at RCA and Columbia. But before that, she was secretary to Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic's infamous president, who signed acts like Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, negotiated distribution deals with Mick Jagger, and added Neil Young to Crosby, Stills & Nash. The stories she tells about the kingmakers of the music biz are outrageous, but it is her sinuous friendship with Ahmet that frames her narrative. He was notoriously abusive, sexually harassing Dorothy on a daily basis. Carvello reveals here how she flipped the script and showed Ertegun and every other man who tried to control her that a woman can be just as willing to do what it takes to get a hit. Never-before-heard stories about artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Steven Tyler, Bon Jovi, INXS, Marc Anthony, and many more make this book a must-read for anyone looking for the real stories on what it takes for a woman to make it in a male-dominated industry.

Class Mom
Class Mom

Author: Laurie Gelman

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1250124700

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Laurie Gelman’s clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics. Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it’s her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max—this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the “wisest” candidate for the job (or oldest), not all of the other parents agree. From recording parents’ response times to her emails about helping in the classroom, to requesting contributions of “special” brownies for curriculum night, not all of Jen’s methods win approval from the other moms. Throw in an old flame from Jen’s past, a hyper-sensitive “allergy mom,” a surprisingly sexy kindergarten teacher, and an impossible-to-please Real Housewife-wannabe, causing problems at every turn, and the job really becomes much more than she signed up for. Relatable, irreverent, and hilarious in the spirit of Maria Semple, Class Mom is a fresh, welcome voice in fiction—the kind of novel that real moms clamor for, and a vicarious thrill-read for all mothers, who will be laughing as they are liberated by Gelman’s acerbic truths.

Loud
Loud

Author: Tana Douglas

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 146071234X

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'Douglas's story is a rock history time capsule and a journey of self-discovery all at once.' ROLLING STONE What goes on tour stays on tour -- unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to work for a who's who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you're the only woman in the road crew and the #metoo movement is still 40 years away. Whether wrangling Iggy Pop across Europe, climbing trusses while seven months pregnant, drinking shots of JD with Bon Scott backstage at Wembley, or donning a tailor-made suit to do lights for Elton at Windsor Castle, Tana did it all. Loud is rock 'n' roll like you've never seen it before, by a woman who not only survived the all-male world on the road but climbed to the top and lived to tell the tale. AC/DC * Deep Purple * ELO * Elton John * Ice Cube * Ice-T * Iggy Pop* INXS * Iron Maiden * Lenny Kravitz * Neil Diamond * Ozzy Osbourne * Patti Smith * Pearl Jam * Rage Against the Machine * Red Hot Chili Peppers * Santana * Status Quo * Suzi Quatro * The Offspring * The Police * The Runaways * The Who * Vanda & Young and more!

Paula, Michael and Bob
Paula, Michael and Bob

Author: Gerry Agar

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2014-04-25

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1782433155

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Here are the facts, divulged in painful and deeply moving detail, and told with an intimacy that could only be disclosed by one caught in the centre of the storm.