Editing Michael Hutchence (section)

===Early career===
Hutchence, the Farriss brothers, Kerny, Sanders, Beers and Kennelly briefly performed as the Vegetables, singing "We Are the Vegetables".<ref name="Jenkins" /> Ten months later, they returned to Sydney and recorded a set of demos.<ref name="StJohn" /> The Farriss Brothers regularly supported [[hard rock]]ers [[Midnight Oil]] on the [[Pub rock (Australia)|pub rock]] circuit, and were renamed as INXS in 1979.<ref name="Jenkins" /> Their first performance under the new name was on 1 September at the Oceanview Hotel in [[Toukley, New South Wales|Toukley]].<ref name="StJohn" /> In May 1980, the group released their first single, "Simple Simon"/"We Are the Vegetables", which was followed by the debut album ''[[INXS (album)|INXS]]'' in October.<ref name="McF" /> Their first Top&nbsp;40 Australian hit on the [[Kent Music Report]] Singles Chart, "Just Keep Walking", was released in September 1980.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book |last1=Kent |first1=David |author-link1=David Kent (historian) |title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] |year=1993 |publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd |location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]] |isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref> Hutchence became the main spokesman for the band,<ref name="McF" /> and co-wrote almost all of the band's songs with Andrew Farriss.<ref name="Creswell" />

According to Hutchence, most of the songs on the band's second album, ''Underneath the Colours'', were written within a fairly short space of time: "Most bands shudder at the prospect of having 20 years to write their first album and four days to write their second. For us, though, it was good. It left less room for us to go off on all sorts of tangents."<ref name="StJohn" /> Soon after [[recording sessions]] for ''[[Underneath the Colours]]'' – produced by [[Richard Clapton]] – had finished, band members started work on outside projects. Hutchence recorded "Speed Kills", written by [[Don Walker (musician)|Don Walker]] of hard rockers [[Cold Chisel]], for the soundtrack to the 1982 film ''[[Freedom (1982 film)|Freedom]]'', directed by [[Scott Hicks (director)|Scott Hicks]]. It was Hutchence's first solo single and was released by [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] in April 1982.<ref name="StJohn" />