A bit of a rough discussion taking place behind the four walls that keep "Radio" afloat. What is the more important subject: Paul McCartney launching another magical mystery tour or after 35 years of riding buses around the world INXS calls it quits?
How many fans of music knew both parties were lit up and fully still Rock-able?
Yeah...well get this! No more office bickering! You're getting both...
Steve Knopper from RollingStone Magazine writes: A guy who can backload his concert with "Hey Jude," "Yesterday," "Helter Skelter," "Get Back" and "Day Tripper" can pretty much do whatever he wants for the first two hours. For most of his first U.S. show in more than a year, Sunday night at the Scottrade Arena in St. Louis, Paul McCartney swung between crowd-pleasing Beatles favorites (he opened with "Magical Mystery Tour"), deep Wings tracks ("Mrs. Vandebilt") and super-obscure solo experiments ("Sing the Changes," from 2008's duo project The Fireman). It wasn't until after 10 p.m. on a Sunday night that he rolled out the old reliables in the third hour.
Not so pretty of a white picket fence on the playgrounds governed by INXS.
R.S. reports INXS are calling it quits after 35 years, the band announced onstage yesterday at a gig in Perth, Australia, according to news.com.au. The band was midway through a set opening for Matchbox Twenty when drummer Jon Farriss said the performance would be the band's last. "I'm getting teary," Farris said, before the group played "I Need You Tonight," one of its biggest hits.
Farris and his brothers Andrew and Tim Farriss formed the band with singer Michael Hutchence in 1977 in Sydney. They had grown into international stars by the mid-Eighties thanks to albums like 1985's Listen Like Thieves and 1987's Kick, a massive worldwide hit that included the singles "Devil Inside," "Never Tear Us Apart" and "Need You Tonight."
After Hutchence committed suicide in 1997, Jon Stevens took over the lead spot for a few years before the band chose new frontman J.D. Fortune through the reality TV show Rock Star: INXS. Fortune was their on-again, off-again singer before Ciaran Gribbin took over in September 2011.
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