Happy Birthday today (Aug. 16) to Tim Farriss, best known as the - TopicsExpress



          

Happy Birthday today (Aug. 16) to Tim Farriss, best known as the founding lead guitarist for Australian pop-funk rockers, INXS; their 1987 album Kick sold over 10 million copies in the US alone & featured four Top 10 singles - Need You Tonight (1988 UK #2 & US #1), Devil Inside, New Sensation & Never Tear Us Apart; the group won six Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards including three for Best Group in 1987, 1989 & 1992 & was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001; they have sold some 40 million records worldwide; at Wembley Stadium in 1991 in front of 77,000 people, frontman Michael Hutchence told Tim to play the f***ing riff Timmy (this very clip!), which lead to Farriss being nicknamed The Riff Meister, & later The Riff Sherriff; Tim recorded the solo CD Deep Inside in 1996, which features over 1000 samples of various instruments; INXS announced their retirement from live performance in November, 2012…
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 01:39:34 +0000

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