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"Never Tear Us Apart" is a power ballad by Australian rock band INXS, released in June 1988 by WEA as the fourth single from their sixth studio album, Kick (1987). The music was written by keyboardist Andrew Farriss , and the lyrics were written by vocalist Michael Hutchence for his then-girlfriend, Michele Bennett .
In August 2010, Petrol Records issued Australian radio stations with a one-track promo "Never Tear Us Apart" featuring Ben Harper on vocals, a preview from the upcoming INXS Michael Hutchence tribute album Original Sin. On 25 September 2010, the band performed before the 2010 AFL Grand Final. On 19 October 2010, it was announced in the Courier ...
INXS: Never Tear Us Apart is based on the band's rise to stardom, and focuses on the events leading up to the death of its then-lead singer, Michael Hutchence, in November 1997. [3] In the early 1980s in Perth, Western Australia, the Farriss Brothers are playing covers at a club with Michael Hutchence on vocals. They are eventually kicked out ...
According to director Halina Reijn, the Oscar winner, 57, was instrumental in securing the rights to the classic INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” for a montage scene in the new movie. “We put.
The video is a performance-style video shot in black and white, showing the writers of the song, Hutchence and Farriss, starting with part of a piano instrumental version of "Never Tear Us Apart" and seemingly "composing" the song in the studio on a piano. The video then cuts to the band recording and then performing the track to a live audience.
In the US, the album spent a total of 79 weeks on the Billboard 200, staying 22 consecutive weeks in the top 10. [40] It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top 10 US singles, "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and the No. 1 "Need You Tonight". [6]
* ^ When "Never Tear Us Apart" was first released in 1988, it originally peaked at number 14 in Australia. After the airing of the 2014 miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, the single charted again in Australia and ended up surpassing its original peak, peaking at number 11.
As of 2018, INXS has sold over 50 million records worldwide. [77] [78] INXS was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. [79] Hutchence's solo album, Michael Hutchence, was released in October 1999. [10] He had started on the album in 1995, recording songs in between INXS sessions; he had last worked on it three days before his death.