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Michael Hutchence 1960-1997

Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1998

THAT MICHAEL HUTCHENCE should fail to reach his 40th birthday is, perhaps, no surprise in itself – his career was distinguished by a wholehearted subscription to the notion of the rock'n'roll star as a creature of excess. That Hutchence's life should end as it seems to have is a real shock.

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