INXS: The Band, The Man, and His Fall from Grace

They Were Almost a Christian Band

Here’s something not every fan knows about the band’s early days. During his brief period as INXS’s manager, Morris tried to sell the boys on devout Christianity. The man had many ideas as a manager, but that doesn’t mean that all of them were good. Kirk divulged that Morris wanted to turn the group into a Christian band. And they even seriously considered the idea, albeit briefly, before rejecting it.

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Morris apparently embraced the faith after attending a Billy Graham crusade. “He wanted us to write songs about Christ and to promote a drug-and-alcohol-free and a no-sex-before-marriage proper Christian lifestyle,” Garry Beers wrote in the band’s official autobiography. Let’s remember that these guys wrote and performed Devil Inside and Original Sin.