I watched some videos of Michael and INXS tonight, Mystify, Never Tear Us Apart, Need You Tonight.... it stirred up my heart all over. Sometimes it's so hard to not feel very, very sad about it all...
When I last spoke to Kell he was excited that I was going to London to work. Normally he wouldn't have been. He wanted me to be close by so we could do lunch or just sit on his balcony drinking in the gorgoeus view while we sipped on tea, joked, laughed or had quiet moments of reflection about Michael. But Kell didn't complain this time about me moving further away, because he knew he didn't have very long left. Infact he left us four days later. When we last spoke, he wanted me to continue our “Michael Projects”, and perhaps he thought London might be a more central place for me to do that. I could not even contemplate what it would be like not to get his almost daily telephone calls or to come home to his cheerful messages which most often finished with an “...anyway Matey, give us a call”.
He and Michael are so dearly missed, not to mention the sorrow of Paula's passing.
What were Kell's aspirations in the days after Michael died? He just wanted Michael to be remembered and honoured and for his musical genious to be acknowledge and celebrated. In recent years we worked at getting Michael's solo album re-packaged and released with at least one or two previously unreleased songs. We worked at getting interest in a Tribute Concert, a film, a Michael musical. Kell also worked hard at trying to get his “coffee table picture book” of Michael's life published. We came up against a lot of brick walls in recent years yet we were determined not to give up.
Publishers lost interest in his book, promoters became preoccupied in other pursuits, perhaps the INXS boys were not sure whether Michael Projects might seem exploitational or perhaps not in the best interest for the future success of INXS. Michael's estate including his publishing rights of course were so thoughtfully taken over by one of his old trusted legal friends...so in the end we seemed to bang our heads against a wall. But Kell asked me not to give up and I am not going to. He certainly wouldn't have if he was still alive. I have been plodding away at several projects and I know that sometime in the future it will be the right time for people once again to re-discover (or perhaps discover for the first time) the charisma of Michael Kelland Hutchence.
In the meantime, in ten days it will be Kell's birthday, in eleven it will be Tiger's, so watch www.michaelhutchence.org for something special.
Love and Peace,
Ian
When I last spoke to Kell he was excited that I was going to London to work. Normally he wouldn't have been. He wanted me to be close by so we could do lunch or just sit on his balcony drinking in the gorgoeus view while we sipped on tea, joked, laughed or had quiet moments of reflection about Michael. But Kell didn't complain this time about me moving further away, because he knew he didn't have very long left. Infact he left us four days later. When we last spoke, he wanted me to continue our “Michael Projects”, and perhaps he thought London might be a more central place for me to do that. I could not even contemplate what it would be like not to get his almost daily telephone calls or to come home to his cheerful messages which most often finished with an “...anyway Matey, give us a call”.
He and Michael are so dearly missed, not to mention the sorrow of Paula's passing.
What were Kell's aspirations in the days after Michael died? He just wanted Michael to be remembered and honoured and for his musical genious to be acknowledge and celebrated. In recent years we worked at getting Michael's solo album re-packaged and released with at least one or two previously unreleased songs. We worked at getting interest in a Tribute Concert, a film, a Michael musical. Kell also worked hard at trying to get his “coffee table picture book” of Michael's life published. We came up against a lot of brick walls in recent years yet we were determined not to give up.
Publishers lost interest in his book, promoters became preoccupied in other pursuits, perhaps the INXS boys were not sure whether Michael Projects might seem exploitational or perhaps not in the best interest for the future success of INXS. Michael's estate including his publishing rights of course were so thoughtfully taken over by one of his old trusted legal friends...so in the end we seemed to bang our heads against a wall. But Kell asked me not to give up and I am not going to. He certainly wouldn't have if he was still alive. I have been plodding away at several projects and I know that sometime in the future it will be the right time for people once again to re-discover (or perhaps discover for the first time) the charisma of Michael Kelland Hutchence.
In the meantime, in ten days it will be Kell's birthday, in eleven it will be Tiger's, so watch www.michaelhutchence.org for something special.
Love and Peace,
Ian