Indecent Obsession

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Indecent Obsession was an Australian boy band. They formed in 1987 in Brisbane.

Members (1987-1992): David Dixon (v), Andrew Coyne (g), Michael Szumowski (k), Daryl Sims (d).
Members (1993-1995) Richard Hennassey (v), Mark Gray (b), Graham Kearns (g), Michael Szumowski (k), Daryl Sims (d).

Australian music guru Molly Meldrum signed the band to his record label Melodian. The band tasted success with the single "Say Goodbye" hitting the Australian Top 10 in August 1989. The follow-up single "Tell Me Something" landed at #17 two months later, but would be the band's last Australian Top 20 single. "Tell Me Something" was picked up by US radio in early 1990 and the song landed at #31 without the band ever setting foot in America. The retitled "Indecent Obession" album (for the American market) peaked at #148 in 1990.

"Indio" - the band's second album was more mature and featured the hit singles "Indio" (AUS#41) and "Kiss Me" (AUS#27). "Kiss Me" even landed at No.1 in South Africa for an amazing 27 weeks.

Richard Hennassey replaced David Dixon on the 1994 album "Relativity" as the group's lead vocalist.

1 Subsequent Careers
2 Discography
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 Albums

[edit] Subsequent Careers

Lead singer David Dixon left the group in 1992 to pursue acting, including the role of Joseph in the Australian version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. "Joseph Mega-Mix" (for the soundtrack) was released in Australia in mid-1993 - and despite its inherent awfulness somehow crawled to AUS#53. In 1995, David recorded a solo single called "Faith, Love & Understanding" which vanished without trace, much like his career did soon after.

In addition to his musical "career", David also played Nathan Roberts in the critically-lambasted Australian TV soap Home & Away, worked on UK radio as a presenter, became a Ranger Pilot for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in South Australia and is currently married with children whom are thankfully too young to realise how embarrassing it is to have a father who was once in Indecent Obsession.

Indecent Obsession's resident knob-dwiddler Michael Szumowski is also to blame for producing the works of other questionably talented "musical" performers including Australian all-girl groups Cherry and Bardot, notorious karaoke contestants Guy Sebastian, Shannon Noll and Kate DeAraugo, and Australian doof-doof projects Disco Montego and Thirstee.

Daryl Sims also had minor success with dance outfit The Webb in the late 1990s, although "success" is perhaps the wrong word considering no-one has ever heard of them.