INXS Members Say Rumors Not True

Mercury Records announced yesterday that, contrary to rumors, INXS is not auditioning new lead singers to take the place of the late Michael Hutchence.

Although both print and television news reported that auditions were being held in New York, London and Sydney, the band's manager, Martha Troup, said, "Right now the band and I are grieving for Michael and that would be the absolute last thing we would be doing."

Hutchence, 37, was found dead in his Sydney hotel room just before noon on Nov. 22.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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