Editing INXS (section)

===Early years===
The origins of the band began with [[Andrew Farriss]] convincing his fellow [[Davidson High School (New South Wales)|Davidson High School]] classmate, [[Michael Hutchence]], to join his band, Doctor Dolphin.<ref name="Burn">{{Cite book |title=Burn : The life and times of Michael Hutchence and INXS |last=St John |first=Ed |publisher=Bantam Books, Sydney |year=1998 |isbn=0-7338-0182-X }}</ref> The band contained two further classmates, Kent Kerny and Neil Sanders, as well as [[Garry Gary Beers|Garry Beers]] and Geoff Kennely, both from a nearby high school, [[The Forest High School (New South Wales)|Forest High School]].<ref name="Burn"/> In 1977, [[Tim Farriss]], Andrew's older brother, invited Andrew, Hutchence and Beers to join him and his schoolmate [[Kirk Pengilly]]. Tim and Pengilly had been playing together since 1971 as either an acoustic duo, Kirk and Tim, or as a four-piece band called Guinness<ref name="Burn"/> (named after their bass player's dog).<ref name="s2s">{{Cite book |title=INXS Story to Story: The official autobiography |last=Bozza |first=Anthony |publisher=Bantam Books, Sydney |year=2005 |isbn=0-593-05517-9 }}</ref> Together with younger brother [[Jon Farriss]] they formed "The Farriss Brothers", who consisted of Garry Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar, Michael Hutchence on lead vocals and Kirk Pengilly on guitar and saxophone.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/><ref name=mhbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelhutchenceinfo.com/biography.htm |title=Biography – Michael Kelland John Hutchence|website=Michaelhutchenceinfo.com |access-date=5 March 2008}}</ref> The band made their debut on 16 August 1977 at [[Whale Beach, New South Wales|Whale Beach]],<ref name="Jeff">{{Cite book |url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41896781 |title=Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia |last=Jenkins |first=Jeff |author2=Ian Meldrum |year=2007 |publisher=Wilkinson Publishing |location=Melbourne |isbn=978-1-921332-11-1 |access-date=17 November 2008 }}</ref> 40&nbsp;km (25&nbsp;mi) north of Sydney.<ref name="Jeff"/>

The parents of the Farriss boys relocated to [[Perth]], Western Australia in 1978, taking Jon to continue his schooling and as soon as Hutchence and Andrew finished school, the rest of the band followed.<ref name="Howl"/><ref name="Jeff"/> They briefly performed as The Vegetables, singing "We Are the Vegetables", before returning to Sydney ten months later,<ref name="Jeff"/> where they recorded a set of demos.<ref name="Burn"/> At a chance meeting in the car park of the Royal Antler, a pub in [[Narrabeen, New South Wales|Narrabeen]] on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Tim was approached by Gary Morris who was the manager of [[Midnight Oil]].<ref name="Burn"/>

The band began to regularly support Midnight Oil and other local bands. Morris advised that a member of the Oils crew had come up with a new name and suggested they change it to INXS.<ref name="Burn"/> The name INXS was inspired by English band [[XTC]] and Australian jam makers [[Henry Jones IXL|IXL]].<ref name="Howl"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Pengilly later explained that Morris was interested in turning the group into a [[Christians|Christian]] band, which the band briefly considered before rejecting the idea.<ref name="Burn"/>

The band's first performance as INXS was on 1 September 1979 at the Ocean Beach Hotel in [[Umina, New South Wales|Umina]]<ref name="Take40Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.take40.com/artists/1458/inxs/bio |title=INXS bio |publisher=Take 40 |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907062646/http://www.take40.com/artists/1458/inxs/bio |archive-date=7 September 2008 }}</ref> on the [[Central Coast (New South Wales)|Central Coast]] of [[New South Wales]] and by the end of 1979, after passing on the Christian band image, they hired [[Chris Murphy (manager)|Chris "CM" Murphy]] as their manager and continued taking on the Oz pub circuit.<ref name="Howl"/><ref name="s2s"/><ref name="Jeff"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=St John |first= Ed |author2=INXS |title=INXS: The Official Inside Story of a Band on the Road |year=1992 |publisher=Mandarin |page=20 |isbn=1-86330-207-7}}</ref> Murphy was an adept business manager and negotiator and by early 1980 the band had signed a five-album record deal with a Sydney independent label, Deluxe Records, run by Michael Browning, a former manager of [[AC/DC]].<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/><ref name="Burn"/>