Guitarist Tim Farriss knew his band INXS was taking a risk by choosing its new lead singer with the help of a TV reality series. "Oh, yes, it was fraught with danger," Farriss said during a phone ...

For a few weeks in 2005, Nova Scotia native J.D. Fortune was living in his car in Toronto with his pug, Presley. Listening to the radio, Fortune, then 31, heard an ad talking about auditions for an ...

When J.D. Fortune first heard about the reality series Rock Star: INXS, he made a bold pronouncement to his pet pug, Presley. The advertisement was on the radio and the singer was famously living in ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The lead singer of Australian rock band INXS, who was picked to replace the late Michael Hutchence in a contest on a reality TV show, said he has been fired without warning. J.D.

Australian rock veterans INXS have finished their quest for a new front man: Canadian Jason Dean Fortune is to replace the late Michael Hutchence after winning the band's reality TV show search for a ...