INXS “Need You Tonight” b/w “I’m Coming (Home)” 1987. Today, March 27th, is INXS keyboardist and primary composer Andrew Farriss’ 60th birthday (b. 1959). The massive hit “Need You Tonight,” probably the sexiest single of the 80′s, from their album Kick went to #1 in the US and #2 in the UK and its video won MTV’s Video of the Year in ‘88. A few years ago I watched the INXS biopic INXS: Never Tear Us Apart (2014) which chronicled the band’s formation, rise to fame and the events leading up to the tragic suicide of Michael Hutchence. In the show, there’s a pretty good scene about Farriss (played by actor Andrew Ryan) composing “Need You Tonight” on the keyboards, striking the iconic opening riff (eventually played on guitar) over and over, realizing he’d pretty much struck pop gold. (I have mixed feelings about the entire two-part miniseries program, but that part was cool.) The B-side, “I’m Coming (Home)” is, to quote myself when I wrote about the 12″ single of “Need You Tonight,”  weird. Lots of saxophone and 80′s synth and a creepy/sexy low voice talking with moaning and groaning in the background, Michael Hutchence occasionally singing “I’m coming home, coming home.”