“I’ll give you a million dollars to go and record another album. This is not happening, this is shit.”- The initial reaction of Doug Morris, then-president of Atlantic Records, after listening to what became INXS’s Kick album
The late Michael Hutchence of INXS was born on this date in 1960. A handful of the group’s songs are included on today’s playlist.
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Today’s playlist celebrates the December 11 birthdays of Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Big Mama Thornton, Pérez Prado, Brenda Lee, Bread’s David Gates, Jermaine Jackson, J. Frank Wilson, Jon Brion, and Sister Double Happiness’s Gary Floyd; and the December 12 birthdays of Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, MC5’s Rob Tyner, The Association’s Terry Kirkman, Manu Dibango, Sheila E., The Ruts’ Malcolm Owen, Grover Washington Jr., Georgia Satellites’ Dan Baird, Connie Francis, The Fixx’s Cy Curnin, and Bob Dorough.
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