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- They’d completed the tour’s successful “homecoming” leg in Australia during April and May, after which they headlined European festival shows from June 28 through to July 16. The sellout Wembley crowd that day was precisely 73,791, and the box office gross was £1,426,617.
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INXS’ Wembley Stadium date was just one of many stops on their high-profile Summer XS tour of 1991 and — as the original November 11, 1991 edition of Live Baby Liveproved — they were on ferocious form. That first edition’s 16 tracks were culled from shows in cities ranging from Sydney to Dublin and Rio De Janeiro, and they demonstrated there were f...
“The whole band was on fire that night”, bassist Garry Gary Beers said in 2019, recalling Hutchence’s magnetism. “Michael was so good, he sang his heart out and gave every person in the crowd a night to remember for all time. He truly had that amazing ability to make the biggest shows as intimate as the pubs we grew up in musically.” INXS needed to...
The night’s setlist drew heavily on both Kick and X, with vast swathes of the crowd moving as one to “New Sensation” and hollering back the chorus of the sinewy, blues-based “Mystify.” Kicking off six consecutive tracks from X, a tense, measured performance of “The Stairs” ramped up the tension, then gave way to the swaggering, wah-wah-driven “Know...
- Tim Peacock
Aug 7, 2021 · INXS urban legend insists the band made no money at all from the show, due to the high filming costs (a DVD and live album were later released, the latter selling over a million copies in the US alone).
Dec 4, 2019 · When singer Michael Hutchence asked how much they were getting paid for the performance, the manager made a zero with his fingers, telling the frontman, “17 cameras and a helicopter, mate.” The...
Jan 27, 2020 · More practically, INXS spent so much on filming Live Baby Live that they didn’t actually make any money headlining Wembley Stadium. “Not one cent,” confirms Garry. Tim explains: “When Chris asked if we minded spending the money we’d make from Wembley on filming the show, we were like, ‘Ahh, it’s okay.’
Nov 26, 2019 · On July 13, 1991, INXS performed in front of 74,000 people at a sold out Wembley Stadium in London, England. It was the band’s largest concert to date as frontman Michael Hutchence would inform...
INXS performed at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1991, during their Summer XS Tour stop in London to a sold-out audience of 74,000 fans.
