Songwriters working in tandem can often create something none of the involved individuals might have imagined on their own. Combining separate sensibilities can take writers down unexpected paths to a ...

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 ...

INXS was growing in the studio, one album at a time. Guitarist Tim Farriss, a cofounding member of the Australian group, can remember vividly what the progression felt like. He lands on sessions for ...

What's worse? A faded rock band privately replacing its lead singer with a sound-alike whose name even rhymes with the departed member the way Journey did when Steve Perry bolted and was replaced by ...