Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchencewas an Australian musician and actor. He was a founding member, lead singer and lyricist of rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. He was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released posthumously. He acted in feature films, including Dogs in Space, Frankenstein Unboundand Limp. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, "Hutchence was the archetypal rock showman. He exuded an overtly sexual, macho cool...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 January 1960
CountryAustralia
We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.
There's a certain point where you have to choose whether you're going to be a cliche or whether you're going to discover new things about yourself.
I am of the belief that every couple thousand years someone comes along like Buddha and goes, hey this is what it is! And everybody goes Wow!
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
I still haven't come to grips with our success.
It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why
I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press