INXS Released "Listen Like Thieves" 40 Years Ago Today - Magnet Magazine

INXS Released "Listen Like Thieves" 40 Years Ago Today - Magnet Magazine

40 years ago today, INXS released Listen Like Thieves. Everybody's still down on their knees. Read in MAGNET why Michael Hutchence was one of rock’s best frontmen:

INXS — Listen Like Thieves 40th Anniversary Edition

On 14 October 1985, INXS released Listen Like Thieves, the album that cracked their international code, and 40 years on it still sounds like a band discovering the shape of its future. The fifth studio album from the Sydney six-piece spent two weeks at number one on the Australian Kent Music Report and became the launchpad that propelled them into the US Top 20, peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard 200. Coming off the warm domestic success of The …