Michael Hutchence
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Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. The band sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of Australia's highest-selling music acts of all time. They were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001.
Hutchence was also a member of the short-lived band Max Q and recorded some solo material, alongside acting in films such as Dogs in Space (1986) and Frankenstein Unbound (1990). He was known for his string of love affairs with actresses, models and singers and his private life was often covered in the international press. He had a daughter with Welsh television presenter Paula Yates. Hutchence died by suicide in a Sydney hotel room on 22 November 1997 at the age of 37.
Early lifeEdit
Michael Hutchence was born in the Crows Nest suburb of Sydney on 22 January 1960,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the son of make-up artist Patricia Glassop and businessman Kelland Frank "Kell" Hutchence.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had an elder half-sister named Tina.<ref name="PatriciaGlassop">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His paternal grandparents were an English couple who had relocated to Sydney in 1922,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while his maternal grandfather was from County Cork, Ireland.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Following Kell's business interests, the Hutchence family moved to Brisbane, where Hutchence's younger brother Rhett was born. They later left Australia for Hong Kong. During the early years in Hong Kong, both boys attended Glenealy Junior School and Beacon Hill School. Hutchence showed promise as a swimmer before badly breaking his arm. He then began to show interest in poetry and performed his first song in a local toy store commercial. He later attended King George V School during his early teens. The family returned to Sydney in 1972, buying a house in Belrose.<ref>[1] Template:Webarchive</ref>
Hutchence attended Davidson High School, where he met and befriended Andrew Farriss. Around this time, the two spent a lot of time jamming with Farriss's brothers Tim and Jon in the garage. Farriss convinced Hutchence to join his band, Doctor Dolphin, alongside their classmates Kent Kerny and Neil Sanders. Bassist Garry Beers and drummer Geoff Kennelly from nearby Forest High School completed the line-up.<ref name="StJohn">Template:Cite book</ref>
Hutchence's parents separated when he was 15 and he lived with his mother and half-sister in California for a short time in 1976.<ref name="Creswell">Template:Cite book</ref> He later returned to Sydney with them. In 1977, a new band called the Farriss Brothers was formed with Andrew on keyboards, Tim on lead guitar and Jon on drums. Hutchence joined on vocals and Beers on bass, while Kirk Pengilly joined on guitar and saxophone.<ref name="McF">McFarlane, {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. Retrieved 5 December 2010.</ref><ref name="ARDb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The band made their debut on 16 August 1977 at a venue in Whale Beach.<ref name="Jenkins">Template:Cite book</ref>
CareerEdit
Early careerEdit
Hutchence, the Farriss brothers, Kerny, Sanders, Beers and Kennelly briefly performed as the Vegetables, singing "We Are the Vegetables".<ref name="Jenkins" /> Ten months later, they returned to Sydney and recorded a set of demos.<ref name="StJohn" /> The Farriss Brothers regularly supported hard rockers Midnight Oil on the pub rock circuit, and were renamed as INXS in 1979.<ref name="Jenkins" /> Their first performance under the new name was on 1 September at the Oceanview Hotel in Toukley.<ref name="StJohn" /> In May 1980, the group released their first single, "Simple Simon"/"We Are the Vegetables", which was followed by the debut album INXS in October.<ref name="McF" /> Their first Top 40 Australian hit on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart, "Just Keep Walking", was released in September 1980.<ref name="Kent">Template:Cite book NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref> Hutchence became the main spokesman for the band,<ref name="McF" /> and co-wrote almost all of the band's songs with Andrew Farriss.<ref name="Creswell" />
According to Hutchence, most of the songs on the band's second album, Underneath the Colours, were written within a fairly short space of time: "Most bands shudder at the prospect of having 20 years to write their first album and four days to write their second. For us, though, it was good. It left less room for us to go off on all sorts of tangents."<ref name="StJohn" /> Soon after recording sessions for Underneath the Colours – produced by Richard Clapton – had finished, band members started work on outside projects. Hutchence recorded "Speed Kills", written by Don Walker of hard rockers Cold Chisel, for the soundtrack to the 1982 film Freedom, directed by Scott Hicks. It was Hutchence's first solo single and was released by WEA in April 1982.<ref name="StJohn" />
Stardom and acting careerEdit
In March 1985, after Hutchence and INXS recorded their album The Swing (1984), WEA released the Australian version of Dekadance as a limited edition cassette only EP of six tracks including remixes from the album. The cassette also included a cover version of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's hit "Jackson", which Hutchence sang as a duet with Jenny Morris, a backing singer for The Swing sessions.<ref name="McF" /> The EP reached No 2 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.<ref name="Kent" /> Hutchence provided vocals for new wave band Beargarden's 1985 single release.<ref name="ARDbMH">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 19 May 1984, INXS won seven awards at the Countdown Music and Video Awards ceremony, including Best Songwriter for Hutchence and Andrew, and Most Popular Male for Hutchence.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Count1984">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They performed "Burn for You" dressed in Akubras (a brand of hats) and Drizabones (a brand of outdoor coats/oilskin jackets) followed by Hutchence and Morris singing "Jackson" to close.<ref name="Count1984" />
In 1986, Hutchence played Sam, the male lead in the Australian film Dogs in Space, directed by long-time INXS music video collaborator Richard Lowenstein. Hutchence provided four songs to the film's soundtrack.<ref name="Cockington">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Also working on the film and its soundtrack, as music director, was Ollie Olsen (ex-Whirlywirld).<ref name="McFIOO">McFarlane {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. Retrieved 5 December 2010.</ref><ref name="ARDbMQ"/>
Late in 1986, before commencing work on a new INXS album and while supposedly taking an eight-month break, the band's management decided to stage the Australian Made tour as a series of major outdoor concerts across the country. The roster featured INXS, Jimmy Barnes (Cold Chisel), Models, Divinyls, Mental as Anything, the Triffids and I'm Talking.<ref name="Jenkins" /> To promote the tour, Hutchence and Barnes shared vocals on the Easybeats cover "Good Times" and "Laying Down the Law", which Barnes co-wrote with Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss, Hutchence and Pengilly.<ref name="ASCAP">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Good Times" was used as the theme for the concert series of 1986–1987.<ref name="Jenkins" /> It peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts,<ref name="Kent" /> and months later was featured in the Joel Schumacher film The Lost Boys and its soundtrack,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> allowing it to peak at No. 47 in the US on 1 August 1987.<ref name="AMGSingles">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Divinyls' lead singer Chrissy Amphlett enjoyed the tour and reconnected with Hutchence, stating that "[he] was a sweet man, who said in one interview that he wanted me to have his baby".<ref name="Jenkins" /> In 1987, Hutchence provided vocals for Richard Clapton's album Glory Road, which was produced by Jon Farriss.<ref name="ARDbMH" />
INXS released Kick in October 1987, and the album provided the band with worldwide popularity. Kick peaked at No. 1 in Australia,<ref name="Kent" /> No. 3 on the US Billboard 200,<ref name="AMGAlbums">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> No. 9 in UK,<ref name="UKCharts">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and No. 15 in Austria.<ref name="AUTCharts">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The band's most successful studio album, Kick has been certified six times platinum by the RIAA and spawned four US top 10 singles ("New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight", the last reaching the top of the US Billboard singles charts).<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them, the single "Need You Tonight" is not lyrically complex; it is Hutchence's performance where "he sings in kittenish whisper, gently drawing back with the incredible lust of a tiger hunting in the night" that makes the song "as sexy and funky as any white rock group has ever been".<ref name="Creswell1001">Template:Cite book</ref> In September 1988, the band swept the MTV Video Music Awards with the video for "Need You Tonight/Mediate" winning in five categories.<ref name="BandRoadChronology2">Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1989, Hutchence collaborated further with Olsen for the Max Q project and was joined by members of Olsen's previous groups including Whirlywirld, No and Orchestra of Skin and Bone.<ref name="ARDbMQ">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They released a self-titled album and three singles, "Way of the World", "Sometimes" and "Monday Night by Satellite". Max Q disbanded in 1990.<ref name="McFIOO" /><ref name="ARDbMQ"/> Max Q showed Hutchence exploring the darker side of his music and, with Olsen, he created "one of the most innovative dance music albums of the decade". Hutchence wrote most of the music and provided "an extraordinary performance ... it was one of the most significant statements Hutchence was to make".<ref name="Creswell1001" /> In 1990, Hutchence portrayed nineteenth-century Romantic poet Percy Shelley in Roger Corman's film version of Frankenstein Unbound, which was based on a science fiction time travel story of the same name written by Brian Aldiss.<ref name="Frankenstein">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1990, INXS released X, which spawned more international hits such as "Suicide Blonde" and "Disappear" (both Top 10 in the US).<ref name="AMGSingles"/> "Suicide Blonde" peaked at No. 2 in Australia and No. 11 in the UK.<ref name="UKCharts" /> Hutchence, with Andrew Farriss, wrote the song after Hutchence's then-girlfriend, Kylie Minogue, used the phrase "suicide blonde" to describe her look during her 1989 film The Delinquents; the film depicted Minogue in a platinum blonde wig.<ref name="MSNKylie">Template:Cite news</ref> Hutchence won Best International Artist at the 1991 BRIT Awards with INXS winning the related group award.<ref name="McF" /> Hutchence provided vocals for pub rockers Noiseworks' album Love Versus Money (1991).<ref name="ARDbMH" /> Welcome to Wherever You Are was released by INXS in August 1992. It received good critical reviews and went to No. 1 in the UK.<ref name="UKCharts" />
Later careerEdit
Hutchence and INXS faced reduced commercial success with Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, especially in the US. The band took time off to rest and be with their families, while Hutchence remained in the public eye through his romances.<ref name="McF" /><ref name="Simmonds">Template:Cite book Note: [online] version has limited functionality, with pages omitted.</ref> He commenced work on a self-titled solo album in the mid-1990s.<ref name="McF" /> After a period of inactivity and releases that received lukewarm reviews, INXS recorded the band's 10th official album, Elegantly Wasted, in 1996.
ArtistryEdit
Hutchence was a baritone.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His vocal range spanned from the bass B1 to the high tenor F#5.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013, News.com.au ranked Hutchence fourth in a list of the 15 greatest Australian singers of all time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Billboard described Hutchence as "charismatic" with a "seductive purr and [a] lithe, magnetic stage presence".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Paul Donoughue, of Australia's ABC, wrote that Hutchence had "a phenomenal voice — moody, sexual, and dynamic, able to shift effortlessly from fragile to cocksure".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reviewing an INXS concert, Dave Simpson of The Guardian wrote that "Watching Hutchence, hair flailing, crotch thrusting, a mischievous smile forever creeping across his leathery face, I realised that here was a man born to be onstage, living and loving every minute, an explosion of sexual energy."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hutchence biographer Toby Creswell asserted that "Hutchence was, without question, one of the truly great frontmen — he expressed the music in a dynamic way that few others could."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
According to People, Hutchence's "public brawls and onetime open drug use" led London tabloids to dub him the "wild man of rock".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was romantically linked to Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> American singer Belinda Carlisle,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Carlisle">Template:Cite book</ref> Danish model Helena Christensen<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Australian actress Kym Wilson.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In August 1992, Hutchence and Christensen were riding their bicycles at night in Copenhagen when he refused to move for a taxi.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They were eating pizza when, unbeknown to him, the taxi tried to get through the narrow street but "didn't beep its horn or anything".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The taxi driver assaulted Hutchence, causing him to fall backwards and hit his head on the pavement; he suffered a fractured skull.<ref name="rockstar">Template:Cite news</ref> Hutchence did not immediately seek medical assistance for the injury and waited several days before seeing a doctor. He was left with brain damage and almost completely lost his sense of smell, as well as losing a significant amount of his sense of taste.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Time Out">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The injury led to periods of depression and increased levels of aggression, and he had still not fully recovered after two weeks in a Copenhagen hospital. According to INXS bandmate Beers, Hutchence brandished a knife and threatened to kill him during the 1993 recording of Full Moon, Dirty Hearts. Beers recalled, "Over those six weeks, Michael threatened or physically confronted nearly every member of the band."<ref name="Bozza">Template:Cite book Note: [online] link is a description of book.</ref>
In the mid-1990s, Hutchence became romantically involved with Welsh television presenter Paula Yates.<ref name="MSNChristensen">Template:Cite news</ref> They met in 1985, during an interview for the British TV program The Tube. Yates interviewed him again in 1994 for her Big Breakfast show, and their affair was soon uncovered by the British press.<ref name="Simmonds" /> At the time, Yates was married to the Boomtown Rats singer and Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof.<ref name="Bedell">Template:Cite news</ref> Media scrutiny was intense, and Hutchence assaulted a photographer who had followed them. Yates's separation from Geldof in February 1995 sparked a public and at times bitter custody battle over their daughters. Yates and Geldof divorced in May 1996.<ref name="BBCSep2000">Template:Cite news</ref>
On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to her daughter with Hutchence, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.<ref name="HutchenceGlossop">Template:Cite book</ref> In September 1996, Yates and Hutchence made headlines when they were arrested for suspicion of drug possession after the family nanny reportedly found a small amount of opium in a shoebox underneath their bed. The case was dropped due to lack of evidence.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Paula Yates died on 17 September 2000 of an accidental heroin overdose; she was discovered in the presence of her and Hutchence's then four-year-old daughter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Soon after Yates's death, Geldof assumed foster custody of their daughter so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2007, their daughter was adopted by Geldof.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DeathEdit
On 22 November 1997, at the age of 37, Hutchence was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Double Bay suburb of Sydney. His cause of death was recorded as suicide by hanging.<ref name="McF" /><ref name="Hand" /> Actress Kym Wilson, who visited Hutchence in his hotel room the previous evening, was the last person to see him alive.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Earlier that year, Hutchence and INXS had started a world tour to support the April 1997 release of Elegantly Wasted.<ref name="McF" /> The final 20th anniversary tour was to occur in Australia in November and December. During the tour, Paula Yates planned to visit Hutchence with their daughter and Yates's three other children, but Bob Geldof had taken legal action to prevent the visit.<ref name="MTV18Aug99">Template:Cite news</ref>
Geldof and Yates each gave police statements concerning the phone calls they exchanged with Hutchence on the morning of his death, but did not volunteer their phone records. Yates's statement on 26 November indicated that she had informed Hutchence of the Geldof girls' custody hearing being adjourned until 17 December, which meant that Yates would not be able to bring their daughter and the Geldof girls to Australia for a visit as previously intended. According to Yates, Hutchence "was frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby ... [he] was terribly upset and he said 'I don't know how I'll live without seeing Tiger'." She indicated that Hutchence said he was going to call Geldof "to let the girls come to Australia".<ref name="Hand" /><ref name="HandInquestReport">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Geldof's police statements and evidence to the coroner indicated he did receive a call from Hutchence, who was "hectoring and abusive and threatening" during their phone conversation. The occupant in the room next to Hutchence's heard a loud male voice and swearing at about 5:00 am; the coroner was satisfied that this was Hutchence arguing with Geldof.<ref name="Hand" /><ref name="HandInquestReport" />
At 9:54 am on 22 November, Hutchence spoke with a former girlfriend, Michele Bennett. According to Bennett, Hutchence was crying, sounded upset and told her he needed to see her. Bennett arrived at his hotel room door at about 10:40 am, but there was no response. Hutchence's body was discovered by a hotel maid at 11:50 am. Police reported that Hutchence was found "in a kneeling position facing the door. He had used his snakeskin belt to tie a knot on the automatic door closer at the top of the door, and had strained his head forward into the loop so hard that the buckle had broken."<ref name="Hand" />
On 6 February 1998, after an autopsy and coronial inquest, New South Wales's state coroner, Derrick Hand, presented his report. The report ruled that Hutchence's death was suicide while depressed and under the influence of alcohol and other drugs.<ref name="Hand">Template:Cite book</ref> "An analysis report of Hutchence's blood [indicated] the presence of alcohol, cocaine, Prozac and prescription drugs."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In producing his coroner's report, Hand had specifically considered the suggestions of accidental death (coupled with the fact that Hutchence left no suicide note), but had discounted them based on substantial evidence presented to the contrary.<ref name="Hand" /><ref name="HandInquestReport" /><ref name="MTVNews">Template:Cite news</ref> In a 1999 interview on 60 Minutes (and in a documentary film on Channel 4), Yates claimed that Hutchence's death might have resulted from autoerotic asphyxiation; this claim contradicted her previous statements to police investigators and the coroner.<ref name="BBC10Aug99">Template:Cite news</ref>
Funeral and memorialEdit
On 27 November 1997, Hutchence's funeral was held at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney and was attended by 600 people, including his family, bandmates, Paula Yates and their daughter, Hutchence's favourite singer, Tom Jones, and former girlfriends Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen.<ref name="rockstar"/> The funeral was broadcast live on Australian television.<ref name="BBCNov1997">Template:Cite news</ref> His casket was carried out of the cathedral by members of INXS and his younger brother, Rhett; "Never Tear Us Apart" was played in the background.<ref name="mtv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nick Cave, a friend of Hutchence, performed his 1997 song "Into My Arms" during the funeral and requested that television cameras be switched off.<ref name="BBCNov1997"/> Hutchence's parents asked that in lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to UNICEF and the Starlight Foundation.<ref name="mtv"/> Rhett claimed in his 2004 book, Total XS, that on the previous day at the funeral home, Yates had put a gram of heroin into Michael's pocket.<ref name="RhettH">Template:Cite news</ref>
Hutchence was cremated and his ashes were divided into thirds between his parents, his siblings and Yates and their daughter, following a battle between his family and Yates that started over Hutchence's wish to be cremated.<ref name="RhettH"/> The portion that went to his mother was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.<ref name="Bell">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The portion that went to his father was scattered into Sydney Harbour, in Rose Bay, on what would have been Hutchence's 38th birthday on 22 January 1998,<ref name="Bell"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a tombstone was placed at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens in North Ryde, Sydney.<ref name="Bell"/> Yates kept her portion of Hutchence's ashes in a cushion she slept with.<ref name="Bell"/>
LegacyEdit
After Hutchence's death, INXS continued recording and performing until 2012. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), INXS have sold 15 million units in the United States alone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of 2018, INXS have sold over 50 million records worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> INXS were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001.<ref name="ARIAHoF">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Hutchence's solo album, Michael Hutchence, was released in October 1999.<ref name="McF"/> He had started on the album in 1995, recording songs in between INXS sessions; he had last worked on it three days before his death. The last song he recorded was "Possibilities".<ref name="McF" /> The album includes "Slide Away", a duet with U2's Bono;<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bono's vocals were recorded after Hutchence's death.<ref name="auto"/> The 1999 movie Limp includes a cameo by Hutchence.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 18 June 2000, Hutchence's mother Patricia Glassop and his sister Tina Hutchence released their book Just a Man: The Real Michael Hutchence,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which has been described as "an odd biography ... [that] combines the basic facts of Hutchence's early life ... with an almost too-intimate view of the authors' feelings".<ref name="PublishersWeekly">Template:Cite news</ref>
On 20 August 2005, Melbourne's The Age reported on the disposition of Hutchence's estate and assets, which, although estimated at between $10 million and $20 million, amounted to virtually nothing. The remainder of his estate had reportedly been sold off or swallowed in legal fees.<ref name="McClymont">Template:Cite news</ref>
A documentary about Hutchence, Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar, aired on Australia's Seven Network in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2019, Mystify: Michael Hutchence—another documentary about Hutchence's life directed by Richard Lowenstein—was released.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DiscographyEdit
Posthumous albumsEdit
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SinglesEdit
| Title | Release | Peak chart positions | Album | |
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| "Speed Kills" | 1982 | — | Freedom (soundtrack) | |
| "Rooms for the Memory" | 1987 | 11 | Dogs in Space (soundtrack) | |
| "A Straight Line" | 1999 | 44 | Michael Hutchence | |
| "Friction"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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2015 | — | Template:N/A |
| "Spill the Wine"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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2019 | — | Mystify: A Musical Journey with Michael Hutchence |
Other appearancesEdit
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Forest Theme" (with Don Walker) |
1982 | Freedom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| "Dogs in Space", "Golf Course" and "The Green Dragon" | 1987 | Dogs in Space (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| "Under My Thumb" (with the London Symphony Orchestra) |
1994 | Symphonic Music of the Rolling Stones |
| "Baby Let's Play House" (with NRBQ) |
It's Now or Never: The Tribute to Elvis | |
| "The Passenger" | 1995 | Batman Forever Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| "Spill the Wine" | 1996 | Barb Wire Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| "Red Hill" | One Voice: The Songs of Chage & Aska | |
| "The King Is Gone" (with the Heads) |
1996 | No Talking, Just Head |
Tributes and dedicationsEdit
- In 1997, Duran Duran wrote the song "Michael You've Got a Lot to Answer For". The song appeared on their album Medazzaland. Lead singer Simon Le Bon told Q magazine that the song, released shortly before Hutchence's death, was about "Michael being a naughty boy ... when he was living with Paula Yates. He did like his substances."<ref name="Duran">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Nick Cave sang "Into My Arms" at Hutchence's funeral on 27 November 1997. The funeral was broadcast live on Australian TV. Out of respect, Cave requested the song not be televised.<ref name="BBCNov1997"/>
- Terri Nunn of Berlin and Billy Corgan collaborated on "Sacred and Profane" for Berlin's 2000 album Live: Sacred & Profane. Nunn said, "The song is about my first experience seeing [Hutchence] because that changed my life. He influenced me probably more than anyone else as a performer. I became 12 years old in five minutes wanting to have sex with him. That's all I wanted! Oh my God. Everybody did! You just wanted him. He was the epitome of [a] rock star."<ref name="OrrickGuzman">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Apicella">Template:Cite news</ref>
- Bono, a close friend of Hutchence, wrote "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" on the 2000 U2 album All That You Can't Leave Behind. The song is written in the form of an argument about suicide in which he tries to convince Hutchence of its foolishness. Bono characterised the song as a good old row between friends, adding that he felt guilty for never having had it with Hutchence in real life.<ref name="McMartin">Template:Cite news</ref> In a 2005 interview, Bono regretted that he had not spent more time with Hutchence. Bono's wife, Alison Hewson, had seen Hutchence before his death and noted "he looked a bit shaky to [her]".<ref name="McMartin" />
- On 23 November 2019, U2 paid tribute to Hutchence in Sydney, Australia, on their Joshua Tree Tour.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Awards and nominationsEdit
APRA AwardsEdit
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". They commenced in 1982.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Australian Songwriters Hall of FameEdit
The Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 2004 to honour the lifetime achievements of some of Australia's greatest songwriters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Awards table |- | 2016 | Himself | Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame | Template:Yes2 |}
Countdown Australian Music AwardsEdit
Countdown was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974 to 1987, it presented music awards from 1979 to 1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards.<ref name="CountdownMarch1987">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1987noms&wins">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
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External linksEdit
- Michael Hutchence Official Site – created by his mother, Patricia Glassop, and his half-sister Tina Hutchence.
- Official Michael Hutchence Memorial Website – created by his father, Kelland Hutchence
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