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 - Bitter (sweet) TearsINXS was one of the best bands to come out of the 80's! I thought I knew a lot about the band from reading Smash Hits as a teenager, but boy was I wrong! I enjoyed hearing the stories from the bands' point of view and I especially liked the insight into the early years. Although I was surprised at how little was actually mentioned about the years surrounding Listen like Thieves and Kick. Anthony Bozza's writing style covers the excesses of the post-Kick years in detail, but without the cheapening feel of tabloid fodder. The lack of "tell-all" sensationalism may leave some feeling that the book was boring. While the book does feel slow at times, it's a truly great story. A bittersweet tale of brothers and friends who worked hard to reach amazing heights only to have it all come crashing down around them. In the late 80's & early 90's the media portrayed Michael Hutchence as the most important member of INXS. After reading this book, I really understood how much all of the members contributed. This book also helps to make a little more sense out of the Rock Star TV show (sort of). Rating:  - AwesomeThis book is not only for the true INXS fan! This book is for EVERYONE that wants and needs a good story in their life! It's about hard work, struggle, life lessons, humor. It's a book for all seasons! BRAVO Anthony Bozza! What a talented writer!!!!!! Rating: - YOU THINK YOU KNEW INXSSo, you think that you knew INXS. Maybe what you knew was what you read or saw on TV. Well, here's your opportunity to know the truth as this is the only biography of the band that is sanctioned and participated in by the band. INXS is a band of brothers, three blood brothers, Farriss, and three soul-brothers, Beers, Pengilly, and Hutchence. This is a book that allows the reader an opportunity to see a glimpse of their rise to fame, their perserverence in an often difficult music world, and the tragic events that led to Hutchence's departure from this world. The reader is allowed to glance at the remaining band members' sorrow and their soul searching that Hutchence's death brought about. It is also the story of a journey, of the path that led the remaining members of the INXS family to seek a new member of the band, not to replace Hutchence, but to continue the musical journey that was begun by all six members of the band. This is a band whose light was dimmed by the loss of Hutchence, but whose light was never completely doused. This is a band who, like the family that they are, needed private moments to reflect, needed to wrap their minds around the events that led to their brother's death, and needed to have an outlet to express themselves. Music has always been INXS' outlet and has always allowed them the opportunity to work out their problems, insecurities, and dreams. And the music had ended without an encore in November of 1997. Any true fan of INXS should read this book. Please read the book with an open mind. Even those fans who believe that replacing Hutchence through the reality TV series Rock Star INXS was tastless and commercial should read this book. Listen to what the remaining band members say. Listen to how they describe themselves and listen to how they describe Hutchence. It is plain to see that these are men who have done an incredible amount of soul searching, who have blamed themselves for not being able to stop their brother's downward spiral, who have replayed those final hours in their minds so many times that they became raw from the experience. This book is about the hope that they each have been able to take from their self-reflection and about the vision that they each believe INXS has yet to complete. Finally, ask yourself as you read this book, if I died would I want my family to break apart and not be the same family ever again, or would I want my family to try to continue as a family? I, personally, would want my family to try to move on without me. I would never want my family to disentigrate because of my death. Finally, this book is about healing. The band's healing from the death of Hutchence and about the fan's healing through an understanding of the true personalities of the remaining members of INXS. As a true INXS fan from the early moments of their careers, I am happy that they participated in this book and I am happy that, once again, the bright beacon of INXS music is being heard throughout the world. And I am pleased that INXS went about the task of finding a lead singer in such a fan-friendly way as to allow the fans the opportunity to participate in their three month live audition to find a new lead singer. I am also thrilled that, like me, JD Fortune, Jason, to the other members of INXS, is a huge INXS fan. He, like other INXS fans, is aware of and in awe of Hutchence and will always keep Hutchence's light shining. To INXS, I say, good on ya, mates! Rating:  - Not what I expectedMust admit I was very disapointed with the book. The book does not really say much. There is no inside the INXS camp, just a odd story here and there about the band. They seem to miss all the facts. You would learn more about INXS in a behind the Music one hour special than in this book. Its seems it is more concerend about the scene in the 80s and the local band, tax laws, what they had to dinner yawn, yawn. All we wanted was there side of the story and sadley it missed all these points. Rating: - deeply saddenedI hope now michael hutchence can finally rest.This book was a great read for me,the facts are true and official from everyone who participated unlike alot of the other garbage the media and people trying to make money off his tragic ending were writting. You must read this if you are a true fan of this band and what they were about. Stop the digging of info and constant bickering of his death. Its done he is gone but never forgotten. This book is definitely a tribute to michael hutchence. In association with Amazon.com | |