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With a career spanning over 40 extraordinary years, INXS are one of the world’s greatest rock bands. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, countless awards from both their peers & fans, including 7 MTV Awards, 3 Grammy Nominations, Brit Awards and hundreds of platinum, gold and now (2) diamond Awards from Canada and Australia.

The band, brothers and friends from school, performed their first show as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Michael Hutchence (vocals), Kirk Pengilly (guitar/sax), Garry Gary Beers (bass), Jon Farriss (drums), Tim Farriss (guitar) & Andrew Farriss (guitar, keyboard, percussion) won Australian fans and then international acclaim, performing to millions of people including the band’s historic sell out performance at Wembley Stadium to 74,000 fans, INXS have cemented themselves in musical history.

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_百度百科网页新闻贴吧知道网盘图片视频地图文库资讯采购百科百度首页登录注册进入词条全站搜索帮助首页秒懂百科特色百科知识专题加入百科百科团队权威合作下载百科APP个人中心收藏查看我的收藏0有用+10INXS播报讨论上传视频澳大利亚男子新浪潮摇滚乐队INXS 是一支来自澳大利亚的新浪潮摇滚乐队，80年代中期到90年代初期是乐队音乐生涯的黄金期，连续数张专辑都是叫好又叫座。乐队的噩梦在1997年，当年11月22日，乐队灵魂人物－－主唱 Michael Hutchence 在没有征兆的情况下上吊自尽中文名INXS外文名INXS主唱Michael Hutchence 黄金期80年代中期到90年代初期出道时间1977年8月16日代表作品INXS类型组合目录1乐队简介2音乐专辑3作品介绍4专辑目录5主要成就6重组经历7评价乐队简介播报编辑1977年8月16日，Michael Hutchence（Voices）, Andrew Farriss（keyboard, guitar）, Tim Farriss（guitar）, Jon Farriss（drums）, Garry Gary Beers（Bass）和Kirk Pengilly（guitar, saxophone）在澳大利悉尼共同组建了 The Farriss Brothers 乐队，乐队刚成立时乘坐着大蓬车到处流浪，一边写歌一边演出，足迹踏遍了整个西澳大利亚地区。1979年 The Farriss Brothers 回到悉尼，开始在当地的酒吧里演出，慢慢的，越来越多的人注意到他们的表演，这其中就包括 Gary Morris －－著名的 Midnight Oil 乐队当时的经济人，在以后的日子里，The Farriss Brothers 一直跟随着 Midnight Oil 到处巡演。但 The Farriss Brothers 最终还是选择离开 Gary Morris 以及 Midnight Oil 的巡演，乐队改名为 INXS，与独立公司 Deluxe 签约，于1980年推出同名首张专辑《INXS》，《INXS》以当时挺时髦的新浪潮摇滚为主要风格，专辑中的单曲 "Just Keep Walking" 名列排行榜的第38位，随后乐队一直到处演出，从悉尼到墨尔本，当时乐队常常一周有七个晚上都在演出。音乐专辑播报编辑显示方式：专辑列表 | 专辑详情专辑名称发行时间语言详情switch2005-11-23-x1990-09-21-INXS Remastered (10 Album Edition)2011-1-1英语 [1]作品介绍播报编辑1983年，INXS 正式签约于 Atlantic 公司，"The One Thing" 是乐队第一支在美国发行的单曲，并成功登上了 Billboard 单曲榜的Top 30。同年2月，专辑《Shabooh Shoobah》在美国发行，一个月后，INXS 与 The Kinks 和 Adam Ant 等明星一起在全美巡演。演出途中，乐队遇上了制作人 Nile Rogers ，双方合作的结晶是单曲 "Original Sin"。1984年1月，"Original Sin" 成为 INXS 第一支在澳大利亚本土榜首的单曲。同年2月，INXS 开始着手乐队第一次全球巡演。在重新回到澳大利亚后，新专辑《The Swing》一经推出就登上排行榜首，5月，"Original Sin" 在美国发行。6月，"Original Sin" 在法国成为榜首歌曲。1985年3月，INXS 重回悉尼的录音室开始录制新专辑，专辑制作人是 Chris Thomas，10月，专辑《Listen Like Thieves》正式发行，《Listen Like Thieves》为 INXS 带来空前的成功，仅在乐队家乡澳大利亚，专辑就在专辑榜上停留了81周的时间，至1986年三月，《Listen Like Thieves》在澳大利亚的销量为3白金，在美国也成为白金唱片，专辑中单曲 "What You Need" 成为乐队在美国第一支 Top 5 歌曲。专辑目录播报编辑专辑名年份INXS1980Underneath the Colours1981Shabooh Shoobah1982The Swing1984Listen Like Thieves1985Kick1987X1990Welcome to Wherever You Are1992Full Moon, Dirty Hearts1993Elegantly Wasted1997Switch2005主要成就播报编辑1981年3月6日，单曲 "The Loved One" 发行，在澳洲的排行榜上名列第18位，电台开始播放 INXS 的歌曲。同年10月19日，INXS 第二张专辑《Underneath The Colours》出版，专辑制作人为 Richard Clapton，专辑打上排行榜第15位，单曲 "Stay Young" 上升至排行榜第21位。1982年初，INXS 离开 Deluxe 公司，并开始录制新单曲 "The One Thing" 。4月21日，Kirk Pengilly, Michael Hutchence 和 Andrew Farriss 离开澳大利亚，旅行到纽约、洛衫矶，边创作边为乐队寻找适合的歌曲制作人。6月15日，INXS开始录制新专辑《Shabooh Shoobah》。同年7月，INXS 与 WEA 公司签约，并推出单曲 "The One Thing"，打上了排行榜的第14位。10月，专辑《Shabooh Shoobah》在澳大利本土出版，成为 INXS 的第一张金唱片。重组经历播报编辑1986年5月，乐队成员又聚在一起，开始名为 "Shake It world tour" 的世界巡演，12月，INXS重回录音室。1987年10月，专辑《Kick》发行，这张充满自然、野性之美的专辑为 INXS 带来巨大的成功，并成为 INXS 最受欢迎和好评的一张专辑，至1997年10月，《Kick》被美国唱片工业协会鉴定在美国地区的销售量已经突破6百万张。有许多因素促成了乐队的成功：主唱 Michael Hutchence 漂亮的外表，歌曲自始至终不变的旋律走向，频繁的巡回演出，乐队里多人作曲以及每张专辑一个制作人以不断产生新鲜的感觉。1988年1月，"Need You Tonight" 成为 INXS 在美国的第一支Top 1单曲，5月，INXS 开始第三次全美巡演。1989年初，在经过马不停蹄的14个月的巡回演出后，乐队各成员各自分开一断时间追求各自的事业：Michael Hutchence 与 Ollie Olsen 组建了临时 Max Q 乐队并推出队同名专辑，只可惜专辑不但在评论上被骂的体无完肤而且在销量上也差强人意； Andrew Farriss 为本地 Jenny Morris 制作了一张澳洲销量达三白金的畅销大碟；Garry Gary Beers 则短暂的离开 INXS 并与他的一些朋友共同合作了一张专辑《Here's Looking Up Your Address》。1989年底，乐队开始录制新专辑。1990年3月，专辑《X》录制完成，同年8月，专辑中第一支单曲 "Suicide Blonde" 在世界范围内发行，在美国、英国、澳大利亚都成为登上排行榜Top 10。9月，专辑《X》正式发行，在美国和乐队的家乡澳大利亚都成为双白金唱片。此后的很长一段时间里 INXS 都在世界巡演的途中，1991年1月，INXS 远赴墨西哥举行了两场观众达5万人的音乐会，成为继20年前 The Doors 乐队后第一支到当地演出的西方摇滚乐队。1991年11月11日，现场专辑《Live Baby Live》在世界范围内发行，在美国也登上排行榜Top 10，该专辑是乐队7 月在温布利体育场的现场录音。1992年8月，INXS 推出专辑《Wherever You Are is》，与以往不同的是，《Wherever You Are is》是一张低调的专辑，是乐队比较富有冒险精神的专辑，诸如迷幻、World Music 等新的音乐元素第一次出现在 INXS 的音乐中，《Wherever You Are is》绝对是 INXS 的又一张代表作，专辑的全球销量为2百万张。与以往不同的是，INXS 这次在专辑推出后并没有举办大规模的演出，而是躲到了意大利卡布里岛的一家旅馆里度假，同时录制乐队的的下一张专辑《Full Moon, Dirty Hearts》。1993年11年月，专辑《Full Moon, Dirty Hearts》出版，但并未取得大的反响。随后乐队离开Atlantic公司，投奔到 Polygram 公司。1994年，Atlantic 公司推出 INXS 的精选专辑《Greatest Hits》。乐队成员则转向各自发展。1996年，INXS 乐队又重新聚在一起，开始录制下一张录音室专辑准备，专辑制作人为著名的 Bruce Fairbairn。评价播报编辑1997年4月，专辑《Elegantly Wasted》推出，但迎接乐队的却是一大堆糟糕的评论。5月，单曲 "Elegantly Wasted" 在南非成为榜首歌曲。同年8月16日，INXS在悉尼举办了庆祝乐队成立20周年的聚会。1997年11月22日，Michael Hutchence 在他悉尼的旅馆里上吊自尽。Michael Hutchence 的自杀让人觉得很突然，因为事先没有任何征兆。恐怕没有人愿意想象没有 Michael Hutchence 的 INXS 会是什么模样，乐队余下的成员也是各自发展，很少聚在一起。在2000年悉尼奥运会闭幕式上，INXS再次出现，乐队找来了新的主音，乐队现场演出依然活力四射，但 INXS 的新专辑目前还没消息。2005年发表专辑《Switch》 [2-5]新手上路成长任务编辑入门编辑规则本人编辑我有疑问内容质疑在线客服官方贴吧意见反馈投诉建议举报不良信息未通过词条申诉投诉侵权信息封禁查询与解封©2024 Baidu 使用百度前必读 | 百科协议 | 隐私政策 | 百度百科合作平台 | 京ICP证030173号京公网安备110000020000

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New Doc on INXS’ Michael Hutchence: 12 Things We Learned

Mystify tells the late singer's story through home videos and personal recollections from friends, family, and himself in archival interviews

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A new doc, 'Mystify: Michael Hutchence,' tells the INXS singer's life story. Here are 12 things we learned.

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Twenty-two years have passed since INXS frontman Michael Hutchence died, and while songs like “Never Tear Us Apart,” “New Sensation,” and “Need You Tonight” remain staples on classic-rock radio and at karaoke clubs, the band has had a difficult time moving forward. Despite putting out two records with different singers and launching a TV competition to find a new vocalist (Rock Star: INXS aired in 2004), Hutchence’s shadow has loomed large over the band. That’s because the singer boasted an unmistakable voice and a unique presence, not to mention a shy offstage personality that fueled fans’ curiosity. His talent is irreplaceable.

Now Mystify: Michael Hutchence — a new film by the late singer’s friend, Australian director Richard Lowenstein — attempts to tell his story through grainy home video and photos that the frontman left behind. The film, which comes out digitally and on-demand this week, presents an intensely personal portrait of Hutchence using archival interviews and new commentary from his onetime partners Helena Christensen and Kylie Minogue, his bandmates, U2 frontman Bono, his siblings Tina and Rhett Hutchence, his stepmother Susie, and producer Nick Launay, among others. It shows how his spark for creativity worked in INXS and in his failed Max Q side project, reveals the heavy pressures of fame that weighed on him, and explores how a violent attack on him changed his life. Here are 12 things we learned.

1. Michael’s family was surprised he wanted to be a frontman because he was so introverted.

Tina Hutchence, Michael’s half-sister, recalls a time when she was managing the kids’ wear section of a department store and needed Michael and his brother to participate in a fashion show. His brother, Rhett, was a natural but Michael, who was nine or 10, was reticent. She had to push Michael out in front of the audience. “All of a sudden, he walked out and he [saw] the people, [and] his face changed,” she recalls in the film. “He started enjoying himself. He started winking at me. It surprised me because he was a shy kid. … When he said he was going to sing with this band, that just surprised the heck out of me. Here’s this kid who didn’t want to walk into a room full of people, let alone sing.”

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2. When it came to making music, he was a natural.

In the early part of INXS’ career, Hutchence loved recording. “He was always the first person to arrive at the studio,” producer Chris Thomas says in the film, as “What You Need” plays. “He was really watching everything. He was the one who had a real idea of where things should go. He really did have an instinct for the whole thing. I was learning stuff from him. He wrote most of the top lines for those songs, the actual tune that the singer sings. He wasn’t just writing words; he was writing melodies.”

3. He felt he had to compartmentalize himself to manage fame.

When the band’s Kick album became a sextuple-platinum megahit, Hutchence had to get over his innate shyness quickly and figure out a way to navigate all the attention. “From the fantasy to the reality of, ‘Oh, this is actually happening,’ that would be really tricky because I wasn’t that comfortable with it,” Hutchence says of fame in one scene. “So I sort of invented that [big] persona with the necessity of getting through it. I enjoyed it but I had to create something that kept me inside as well.”

4. He impressed Bono greatly.

“I remember asking Michael what his definition of rock & roll was,” the U2 singer recalls of his late friend in a reverent tone. “He said, ‘Liberation.'”

5. The way he picked up Kylie Minogue was incredibly corny — but it worked.

In the doc, the “Loco-Motion” singer recalls how she met Hutchence around 1989 and asked him how he took care of his voice. He told her he had “magical drops for your throat” that he used and would be willing to share with her. Shortly after their meeting, she had to go to Hong Kong for her own career. He asked to take her to dinner there but made her wait. “Eventually he rocks up two hours late,” she said. “He takes me out and there’s clearly something between us.” She later forgot all about the secret potion and he ended up courting her, flying to visit her on different parts of her Asian tour.

6. When Michael’s mother decided to leave his father, she took Michael with her but left his brother, devastating the family.

When the INXS frontman was about 14, he and his younger brother Rhett returned home from school to find that their mother, Patricia, had packed up their things. In the words of Tina, “Michael was the chosen one.” Patricia told Michael to pack his bag, and they went to the States together, with Rhett crying at the airport, and stayed there for a year and a half. Patricia says in the film that she’d asked Michael in advance if he wanted to come with her and that he’d said yes. “He kept it a secret, as I did,” she says. “Michael knew that he was going.” Michael’s personal manager, Martha Troup, said that it was a decision that haunted Michael. “It just tore him apart,” she says. “He felt that he didn’t deserve the success. He felt guilt.” Rhett was raised by about seven nannies in the time Michael and Patricia were away. He says that Michael returned with a new sense of self.

7. He lost his senses of smell and taste after a taxi driver knocked him out.

His onetime partner, model Helena Christensen, remembers an incident in Copenhagen in 1992 when they got pizza and rode home on bikes. They stopped to eat, and a taxi driver told Michael to move, got out, and punched him with enough force to send the singer to the ground, knocking him unconscious. “There was blood coming out of his mouth and ear,” Christensen recalls. “I thought he was dead.” When he came to in the hospital, he was belligerent and insisted on being dismissed. He was laid out for a month and eventually a surgeon found he had a skull fissure and that his nerves were torn; he had lost his olfactory senses as a result. “He did not want me to tell anyone,” she says. “He didn’t even want me to tell my parents. … Things just got really heavy in his head.” His bandmates noticed he seemed different, more aggressive, when they began work on 1993’s Full Moon, Dirty Hearts.

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8. The attack seemed to change everything for Hutchence.

Bono recalls how Hutchence had confided in him that he felt different after the attack. “I think he was very, very traumatized,” the U2 singer says in the film. “He confessed to me that it changed everything for him. What was just a sweet insecurity became a deep insecurity. He kind of lost his way and forgot who he was.”

9. He fell in love with grunge, much to his bandmates’ disappointment.

During the making of Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, his interests strayed from the typical INXS sound. “He was just very erratic in his behavior but also in what we were trying to do musically,” guitarist Kirk Pengilly says. “He certainly had gotten sucked into the grunge thing. There was a lot of times where he’d stop everything and go, ‘Hey, listen to this. This is what we’ve got to be doing.’ So I had huge arguments with Michael over that; he was trying to make it a lot more ‘not INXS.'”

10. Noel Gallagher stomped on Hutchence’s spirits.

At the Brit Awards in 1996, during a time when INXS’ popularity had waned, Hutchence presented Oasis with a trophy for “Wonderwall.” In his acceptance speech, guitarist Noel said, “Has-beens shouldn’t present fucking awards to gonna-bes.” Hutchence walked off with a bit of swagger but looked hurt. “That crushed Michael,” Troup recalls in the film. “That was devastating, that moment in his life. They were massive worldwide and to go completely the other way was really hard on them and really hard on Michael.”

11. Michael’s tumultuous relationship with TV host Paula Yates weighed heavily on him.

Hutchence linked up with Yates, the wife of singer and activist Bob Geldof, in the mid-Nineties; she had interviewed him for her TV program. They had a daughter together, but the relationship turned sour after opium was discovered in Yates’ house and Geldof filed for divorce. A friend of Hutchence’s, identified only as Erin, shares diary entries she wrote when she was age 20 in the doc. In September 1997, she wrote, “Michael phones me and says Paula has tried to commit suicide. I asked how he was, and he said, ‘I’m weird in the head.’ I said, ‘I bet.’ He said, ‘No, you have no idea. You don’t know what I’m going through. You don’t understand what’s going on in my head.'” At one point he asked her if she was worried he’d kill himself, to which she said yes. He assured her that wasn’t going to happen.

12. Hutchence was in a good mood in the days before he died by suicide, but he began to spiral when Yates said she couldn’t see him.

INXS were in Australia, rehearsing for a tour, and Yates had told Hutchence she was coming to visit with Hutchence’s daughter and her kids from Geldof’s marriage. But on November 22nd, 1997, she told him the visit would be postponed until December, due to issues with Geldof. Hutchence called Geldof and begged him to allow Yates to travel. He called his friends and managers to tell them how upset he was that he wouldn’t see his kids. “But it was more than that,” Troup says. “He was confused about where he wanted to be, himself, in life. I went back to the office, and I heard a message. He was just really angry. He said, ‘Martha, I don’t give a shit anymore.'” But his anger turned to desperation in later phone calls. His body was found in his hotel room around noon that day. The doctor says that the coroner ruled a few months later that Hutchence had died by suicide.

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INXS' 10 greatest songs, ranked

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INXS in 1989. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images).

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INXS are one of Australia's greatest ever musical exports.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, INXS became one of the most popular groups in the world, merging elements of new wave, pop, funk, and rock together on their way to selling over 70 million albums worldwide.Led by their charismatic singer Michael Hutchence, INXS had a bonafide rock god at the helm and his magnetic presence made them globally renowned.Throughout their duration as a band, INXS went from a group of school friends performing in local Australian pubs to playing to 70,000 people at Wembley Stadium at the peak of their popularity.After Hutchence's death in 1997, things were never the same for INXS, but they left a lasting legacy of iconic rock songs.That said, here are the ten greatest INXS songs, ranked:

'By My Side'

INXS - By My Side

'By My Side' is uniquely one of the INXS singles that Michael Hutchence didn't write or co-write, but was instead written by bandmates Andrew Farriss and Kirk Pengilly.Released in 1990 from their album X, the band were superstars by this point and life on the road began to wear them down.Hutchence was dating Kylie Minogue at the time and was happy with his nomadic lifestyle, but still sings the ballad with more than enough convincing emotion.

'Beautiful Girl'

INXS - Beautiful Girl (Official Music Video)

Despite an average charting performance upon its 1992 release, 'Beautiful Girl' is often considered to be one of band's finest final moments.When INXS were evolving with the times as rock music became the genre of choice in the nineties, they still kept fans on side with this tender track.Though lyrically, Michael Hutchence refers to a frightened runaway he befriends and protects who is suffering.Talking about the song being addressing homelessness, he said: "They're real normal kids who get into prostitution and drugs and it’s a real mess. Because they're so naive."

'Devil Inside'

INXS - Devil Inside (Official Music Video)

'Devil Inside' was the second single from 1987's Kick, the album that launched INXS towards global superstardom.The song's danceable guitar riff and Hutchence's sultry vocals established the band as one of rock music's most groovy denizens. It also provided an opportunity for Michael to begin embodying the wriggly, snake-hipped lothario he became famous for.Fun fact: the music video was shot by movie director Joel Schumacher, who ventured back into music video's nearly a decade later with Seal's 'Kiss From A Rose'.

'Don’t Change'

INXS - Don't Change (Official Music Video)

One of INXS' first songs to make a dent on Australian radio became one of their most beloved.The band would later reserve 'Don't Change' as their encore despite the countless hit singles they had in their arsenal.It's clearly hit a nerve with other artists too, with Bruce Springsteen and The Goo Goo Dolls also covering it.

'Mystify'

INXS - Mystify (Official Music Video)

One of the more romantic and poetic songs that Michael Hutchence ever penned, 'Mystify' was the sixth single to come from their breakthrough album Kick.The funk-rock of 'What You Need' helped the band get noticed in the US, so that sound informed the most part of the following 1987 album.But 'Mystify' is one of the more tender moments on the album, and was well-received in the UK charting in the top 20.

'Suicide Blonde'

INXS - Suicide Blonde (Live at MTV VMA 1990)

This raunchy 1990 comeback single saw INXS maintain their global popularity after the overwhelming success of Kick three years before.Inspired by Kylie Minogue, the lyrics have nothing to do with suicide, rather just the "dyeing" of one's own hair with bleach being a play on words.It was perhaps coincidental that Michael Hutchence himself later died of suicide in 1997, whilst dating the platinum-blonde television personality Paula Yates.

'Original Sin'

INXS - Original Sin (Official Music Video)

'Original Sin' was the song that transformed INXS into serious players in their native Australia.Nile Rodgers was a primary influence on the band and they managed to convince the Chic guitar legend to produce their 1984 album The Swing which featured this single.It topped the charts in Australia and made the rest of the world notice.There was also a guest vocal from Hall & Oates' Daryl Hall after Rodgers roped him into the studio.

'New Sensation'

INXS - New Sensation (Official Music Video)

The "carpe diem" motive behind INXS' 1987 single 'New Sensation' helped push it to No.3 in the US and the top spot in Canada.Brands found the song irresistible - with the promise of new experiences behind the lyrics, the likes of Toyota, MacDonalds, and even Sea World.It also showed a different, more sartorial side to the rugged sensuality of Michael Hutchence, who wears a suit and ties his mane in a ponytail throughout. Whether they were either pandering to ad agencies in the US or poking fun at them, it worked.

'Need You Tonight'

INXS - Need You Tonight (Official Video)

Undoubtedly one of the sexiest and steamiest rock songs ever written, 'Need You Tonight' was explosive in more ways than one."Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know, you're one of my kind" is certainly a booty call if ever we've heard one.But away from the lyrics' overtly provocative nature, 'Need You Tonight' saw INXS break America, becoming one of Australia's biggest musical exports in the process.The song has now become a staple of danceable rock songs from that decade, and is arguably the first song that people think of when INXS are mentioned.

'Never Tear Us Apart'

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (Official Music Video)

Also released on 1987's global smash Kick, 'Never Tear Us Apart' didn't fare quite as well as the previous two singles on this list.But that doesn't disqualify it from being INXS' greatest-ever song. The sentiment behind the song, and its powerful chorus, resonates far beyond what inspired Hutchence to first write it, and is frequently played at weddings, births, and funerals. It was the song he took most pride in, and it was even played at his own funeral when the remaining members of INXS and his younger brother Rhett carried his coffin.

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INXS star Michael Hutchence 'had permanent brain damage'

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Michael Hutchence was rarely out of the papers in the final years of his life, but there was a secret he had kept hidden from the world - he was suffering from brain damage.A violent altercation five years before his death left the INXS star with two large areas of permanent damage, as well as robbing him of his sense of taste and smell.

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Hutchence dated model Helena Christensen for around four years

The only other person who knew - his then girlfriend supermodel Helena Christensen - had been sworn to secrecy.So why hide his injuries, and suffer in silence?Filmmaker Richard Lowenstein, who worked with the star for many years, thinks he has finally pieced together the elements that led to Hutchence's death aged just 37.

In his documentary about the singer's life, Mystify, he says it was that one event - a punch from a taxi driver outside a pizza shop in Copenhagen in 1995 - that changed everything.Speaking to Sky News, Lowenstein explains, it was only after the accident that Hutchence displayed "sudden mood swings and temper outbursts", which were completely out of character.

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