Australian rock group INXS has called it quits as a live touring band after 35 years, thanking fans and honoring late frontman* Michael Hutchence in a statement yesterday.

INXS, which sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, including more than 10 million alone of their 1987 breakthrough “Kick,” issued the statement after comments by band member Jon Farriss during a weekend performance sparked a frenzy* on Twitter.

“We understand that this must come as a blow to everybody, but all things must eventually* come to an end,” INXS members Tim, Andrew and Jon Farriss, Kirk Pengilly and Garry Beers said. “We have been performing as a band for 35 years, it’s time to step away from the touring arena*.”

“Our music will of course live on and we will always be a part of that,” they added.

INXS was one of the biggest touring bands of the 1980s and 1990s, playing to 80,000 at Wembley Stadium in London and 120,000 in Rio De Janeiro. (SD-Agencies)