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.
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist
Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why
I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.
We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage
I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
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
Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.
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