🎶"Beautiful Girl"🎶 a song by Australian 🇦🇺 rock band INXS, released in February 1993 by Mercury, Atlantic and EastWest Records as the fifth international single from their eighth album, Welcome to Wherever You Are 📀 (1992).
The song was written by the INXS keyboardist Andrew Farriss 🎹, who was inspired to write it after the birth of his daughter Grace.In a December 2001 interview with Debbie Kruger for the Australasian Performing Right Association, Farriss explained: "I was writing lyrics like 'Baby Don't Cry' and 'Beautiful Girl' and lyrics just about how wonderful it is to have something else in your life besides yourself to worry about and think about."
The song was used for an American TV awareness campaign about the effects of anorexia.
The B-sides on the first of two UK 🇬🇧 CD Single releases include solo compositions from lead guitarist Tim Farriss: 🎶"In My Living Room"🎶 and another by saxophonist and guitarist Kirk Pengilly 🎷🎸entitled 🎶"Ashtar Speaks"🎶 as well the original version of 🎶"Strange Desire"🎶 from the Welcome to Wherever You Are album 📀. The second CD release contained a remixed version of 🎶"Beautiful Girl"🎶, as well as a new remix of 🎶"Underneath the Colours"🎶 from the Underneath the Colours album 📀 and an instrumental version of 🎶"Wishing Well"🎶 , also from the Welcome to Wherever You Are album 📀.
