Music icon Bono has said he was reminded of a haunting conversation he had with Michael Hutchence, that seemed to echo the INXS singer’s tragic death.
The music giants were close friends, with Bono revealing in his new memoir, Bono: 40 Songs, One Story, that he always felt “a bit of sham as a rock star,” compared to Michael.
Michael fronted global megastars INXS, who sold more than 60 million records, including hits such as I Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart and Listen Like Thieves.
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Describing the late INXS singer as a “proper rock star,” the two friends would often spend time together, including one evening in 1994 where the pair discussed the death of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain.
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Kurt was found dead in his garage at home in 1994, with the coroner ruling that the musician had killed himself. A suicide note was also reported to have been found near the late star.
In his book, Bono recalls talking about the singer’s death with Michael, before the INXS star asked about Cobain: “Don’t you think if he’d just hung on, he’d have gotten through it? If he’d glimpsed the life he could have had.”
The INXS singer continued, saying: “If he’d just have waited, mate, he’d have found a way out of whatever hole he was in.”
Bono later says he was reminded of this haunting conversation in the hours following Michael’s own death in a hotel room in 1997, at the age of 37 years old.
Coroners in New South Wales, Australia, later ruled that the singer also died by suicide.
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“On the day Michael was discovered dead in his Sydney hotel room, I remembered what he’d said to me about Kurt Cobain. ‘If he’d just hung on,” writes Bono.
“It felt as if our whole world had been crushed. Paradise lost. All those eternal summers we would never spend together.”
Describing him and wife Ali as “brokenhearted,” Bono’s reflection on Michael’s death and his friendship with the late star is just one of the life moments that Bono recalls in his engaging, emotional and intriguing rock memoir, which is cleverly interwoven to tell the story of his life through U2’s many famous songs including Stuck In A Moment and (Pride) In The Name Of Love.
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