A transcript of news report from August 18th, 1999, shows the conversation between Britain’s Channel 4 reporter Marc Tamhane and Paula Yates, an ex-partner of Michael Hutchins, the lead singer of popular Australian rock band INXS. The topic of their talk is the cause of Michael’s death on November 22nd, 1997 – auto-erotic asphyxia. Although Hutchins was not a typical celebrity, he had thousands of fans and certainly had a huge audience who listened to his band. This case was given a great amount of media coverage, especially because of the discrepancies in coroner’s finding which did not accord with the evidence from the scene of the crime. Within the circle of his fans, who wanted to purify their idol from in memoriam media scandal, it was claimed that Hutchins used asphyxia for getting into special mind states from which he then draw inspiration in creating his music.
One of my friends, also a singer in a rock band, was an admirer of INXS music and wondered what was the truth reason behind Hutchins’ actions. And in Yates words, “because people do do these things, lots of people do these things.“ (Tamhane, 1999) My friend died on May 31, 2005.
For the whole transcript, visit:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s44843.htm
Reference list:
Tamhane, M. (August 18, 1999) Transcript:Yates-Hutchence affairs takes another lurid twist. ABC Local Radio. Retrieved http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s44843.htm
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HI Victorie
ReplyDeleteThis was a deeply moving, horrible story indeed. I just wanted to add that the horrible things the celebrities are going through, for example:( AMY WINEHOUSE, BRITNEY SPEARS and the list can go on forever) may serve as a model of where this kind of lifestyle can lead you to. What i'm trying to say here that for SOME people it may even be beneficial, because these examples may increase awareness and fear towards the harmful things. But again, for some people it may take a tragic twist.
Good job Victorie ... really interesting blog