Sat Aug 21, 2010 1:26 pm
Was it not rather an act of self-defense? INXS singer Michael Hutchence hanged himself in Sydney - The early death of rock idols
By STEFAN Krull
Hamburg - For a life like his many others would have his soul sold to the devil. Before the stage, which climbed to Michael Hutchence and his band INXS, the fans fell to the ground powerless, the bed of the Australians told the most coveted beauty of this world, and from the royalties of 20 million records he after two decades of an almost flawless career deposed, had indulged the screen idol Beau a seemingly carefree existence in the jet-set. Too much or not enough? Last Saturday, the singer was found dead in his suite at the Ritz Carlton hotel his home town of Sydney. Three days before the planned world tour by INXS, the 37 year old was hanged there must be about the reasons for the time being speculated. It seemed the success, in addition to the musical, this time at last and the private, the darling of gossip columns just this year zuzuspielen all balls. The new album, "Elegantly Wasted", stadiontauglichen cautious return to the pop of the early years, rang the bell for INXS after a perceptible decline in sales to a return to the Olympus of chart toppers. Even those critics, the men from Down Under once "reputed to boring, superficial pop-rock Genudel" They gave themselves suddenly as refined and certified the band worth listening qualities. And after the marriage with the presenter Paula Yates and the birth of daughter, the former Tiger ", said a bachelor without any desire to change this situation ever beautiful", not tired, the new role as a father in glowing praise. Perhaps more of an act of pure self-defense. Hutchence for years had provided especially the Yellow Press with new rumors, minor scandals and escapades. to His illustrious partner, the Danish top model Helena Christensen, who he cheated with pop star Kylie Minogue and Patsy Kensit, photographers who stalked him in his amours, then obtained a beating from Michael, the Bad, the summed kaltlächelnd, was the fun the $ 40,000 for pain and suffering "more than worth it" was. And the word play in the band name (pronounced to: survive In Excess), it was obviously temporarily become your motto in life: he frankly confessed to anyone who wanted to know, "not a day without a minimum of five bottles of wine" can. In a police search of his house, the officers also found opium and cocaine, hidden in candy tube. So a normal career in the ivory tower of pop idols. Where the air is thin in the upper floors and the astonished observer like that does that have paid their supposed good fortune with his life. Names such as Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain or Jim Morrison, was with the Michael Hutchence at least as often as compared with Mick Jagger, are then to be synonym for the price of fame. The INXS-chief but was in fact none of these types of tragic, broken on the fame and the steep-sided love of his fans. Playboy sooner and sometimes even a comedian, who commented with a light touch and sharp tongue all hostilities and the table wiped. Exhibitionist on stage, and mass-compatible Artist Song art, which rarely ventured only one glance into dark abysses. That's why his suicide remains at first inexplicable. Drugs or suicide notes has not been found in his Sydney home, but it is rumored, wife Paula Yates left him along with daughter. "I like musicians such as the Pogues," Michael Hutchence had once said, "but this desire for self-destruction is nothing but to use. They are all dead in a few years ago, and then no cock crows over to them!" A dreadful oracle.
