In memory of Michael Hutchence

"The amount of experience that we go through, in doing what we do, is many lifetimes. The problem is holding on to a fixed point for long enough to understand it” - Michael Hutchence

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Michael and Ray Charles in the recording studio in Paris whilst working on ‘Please (You Got That)’ from INXS’s 1993 album Full Moon, Dirty Hearts

Tim Farriss recalls, “Then, all of a sudden, Michael runs off to have a piss. While I’m standing there, Mr. Charles comes over, puts his hand on my shoulder and goes, ‘Michael, I love the way you’re singing this thing. It’s so cool.’ It was really heavy to say, ‘Uh, Mr. Charles, I’m not Michael.’ But then he laughed his head off. He thought it was really funny.”

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Michael during an interview for TIFI Friday

UK, 1997

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Michael during an interview with French TV in 1994

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1988

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Michael and Kylie Minogue

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Michael and Jon, 1988

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“I am pretty nomadic, I like it. I really don’t feel comfortable in one place for too long. I really like to move around. What do they say, it’s the traveling not the arriving? I’m like that. It’s a big world, and I’m very very lucky to be able to go and see it. That’s one of my greatest pleasures.'

Michael

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Michael during an interview in 1988

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Michael on stage 1986

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Michael and Saskia Post Scenes from the 1986 film Dogs in Space Dir. Richard Lowenstein

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'It starts with six people that are all very different, extremely different. We all have different tastes, different lifestyles. Even different models values and ideologies. And to keep that together it's a very hard, but it's worth it. It's a big puzzle and that never you can't really understand until the last piece gets put in.'

Michael

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Michael on stage 1988

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Promotional poster for the album “Elegantly Wasted” (1997)

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1990 MTV VMA's Rehearsal

Photo Jeff Kravitz

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Michael 1990

Photo John Stoddart

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Michael and Roger Taylor of Queen

Montreux , Switzerland 1986

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Michael 1988