But you have to take yourself back in a time capsule, up to 1987. Pat yourself on the back.ĪF: We all knew we had something special. And I thought, 'Ooh, this is kinda interesting, this lyric?' But then again, I took the view of 'Well, that's art.' You know, like, that's what he thought.īH: I often ask this question in “Story Behind The Song” interviews: when the song was finished, Did you know (it was a hit)? I'm going to take a different take on it: Did you know just with the groove? Because all I would have had to have heard was that groove (laughs). He wrote the lyric and I you know, I have some beliefs about life and the afterlife.

The crowd went bananas, you know, but it wasn't that so much as I used to struggle with the song a little bit, because I didn't write the lyric. But I know when Michael first heard it, he goes, 'What's that?.We gotta have it.' And so he scribbled down that rough idea of, 'Every single one of us/ The devil inside.' And I thought, 'This is pretty groovy.'īut I have a confession to make.He used to love that song. …I already had the groove and I had the riff and I knew what I wanted to do. And Michael wrote a little bit on his own, but he liked to write with other people, mostly. In fact, Michael and I probably wrote about 300 songs together. I appreciate it… I co-wrote that with Michael Hutchence all those years ago, a long time ago now. But thank you for the accolades, too, Bart. My wife went, 'That's infectious.' I said, 'That's the point.!' You take us back, man, because you had this riff, and it preceded the writing of the song, right? ,Īndrew Farriss: That's right. You're the keyboard player, but you came up with (sings 'Devil Inside' guitar riff).

('Devil Inside') ties with 'Satisfaction' for the greatest damn guitar riff in history. I was really giving it some thought last night. Bart Herbison: I have been a disciple of yours since day one, the great band INXS, musically and onstage, but you as the songwriter, Andrew.

We all have a little devil inside us