INXS and replacing Michael Hutchence.The frontman secured his place in the Australian band after winning the 2005 reality TV show ‘Rock Star: INXS’. “It was incredibly, incredibly intimidating,” the Canadian singer recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone.“It’s like replacing Elvis or Jim Morrison,” he continued. “I literally played shows where people seemed to be scowling during the first three songs.
They were like, ‘You better be fuckin’ good, man.’ By the end of the night, they were rockin’ and rollin’.”The singer also talked about his drug use around the time that he was rehired by the band in 2010. “While I was going through that depression, I was trying to self-medicate,” he said. “I used anything that was around, except for, like, heroin.”Fortune continued: “I’m also not a hallucinogenic guy.
I don’t like acid or anything like that. I definitely had a romance with cocaine, but it’s been over 10 years now since I have touched anything.
That’s one of my proudest accomplishments.”Fortune also said he was using hard drugs while touring with INXS. “I would call it ‘running’,” he said. “I would go for a ‘run’.
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