Editing Michael Hutchence (section)

===Stardom and acting career===
In March 1985, after Hutchence and INXS recorded their album ''[[The Swing (INXS album)|The Swing]]'' (1984), WEA released the Australian version of ''[[Dekadance]]'' as a limited edition [[Compact Cassette|cassette]] only [[Extended Play|EP]] of six tracks including [[remixes]] from the album. The cassette also included a [[cover version]] of [[Nancy Sinatra]] and [[Lee Hazlewood]]'s hit "[[Jackson (song)|Jackson]]", which Hutchence sang as a [[duet]] with [[Jenny Morris (musician)|Jenny Morris]], a backing singer for ''The Swing'' sessions.<ref name="McF" /> The EP reached No&nbsp;2 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.<ref name="Kent" /> Hutchence provided vocals for new wave band [[Beargarden (band)|Beargarden]]'s 1985 single release.<ref name="ARDbMH">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102002158/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/h/hutchencemichael.html |url-status=usurped |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/h/hutchencemichael.html |title=Michael Hutchence |publisher=Australian Rock Database. Passagen (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |last2=Warnqvist |first2=Stefan |archive-date=2 January 2009 |access-date=15 June 2020 }}</ref>

On 19 May 1984, INXS won seven awards at the ''[[Countdown (Australian TV series)|Countdown]]'' Music and Video Awards ceremony, including Best Songwriter for Hutchence and Andrew, and Most Popular Male for Hutchence.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Count1984">{{cite web |url=http://baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=%2Fwebgirl%2Fmain&cmd=list&range=40%2C8&Year~=1985&cmd=all&Id=407 |publisher=baseportal.com |title=''Countdown'' Archives – 1985 – 25 May 1985 |date=25 May 1985 |access-date=5 December 2010 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802053007/http://baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=%2Fwebgirl%2Fmain&cmd=list&range=40%2C8&Year~=1985&cmd=all&Id=407 |url-status=live }}</ref> They performed "[[Burn for You (INXS song)|Burn for You]]" dressed in [[Akubra]]s (a brand of hats) and [[Driza-Bone|Drizabones]] (a brand of outdoor coats/oilskin jackets) followed by Hutchence and Morris singing "Jackson" to close.<ref name="Count1984" />

In 1986, Hutchence played Sam, the male lead in the Australian film ''[[Dogs in Space]]'', directed by long-time INXS music video collaborator [[Richard Lowenstein]]. Hutchence provided four songs to the film's soundtrack.<ref name="Cockington">{{cite book |last1=Cockington |first1=James |title=Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll |year=2001 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) |location=Sydney, NSW |isbn=978-0-7333-0750-8 |page=232 |chapter=Ghosts in the Ballroom}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/australian-singers-turned-actors/|title=Australian Singers Turned Actors|date=14 July 2019|access-date=10 January 2020|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720033117/https://www.filmink.com.au/australian-singers-turned-actors/|url-status=live}}</ref> Also working on the film and its soundtrack, as music director, was [[Ollie Olsen]] (ex-[[Whirlywirld]]).<ref name="McFIOO">McFarlane {{cite web|url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=551 |title='Ian 'Ollie' Olsen' entry |access-date=19 April 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040419084449/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=551 |archive-date=19 April 2004 }}. Retrieved 5 December 2010.</ref><ref name="ARDbMQ"/>

Late in 1986, before commencing work on a new INXS album and while supposedly taking an eight-month break, the band's management decided to stage the [[Australian Made]] tour as a series of major outdoor concerts across the country. The roster featured INXS, [[Jimmy Barnes]] (Cold Chisel), [[Models (band)|Models]], [[Divinyls]], [[Mental as Anything]], [[the Triffids]] and [[I'm Talking]].<ref name="Jenkins" /> To promote the tour, Hutchence and Barnes shared vocals on [[the Easybeats]] cover "[[Good Times (Easybeats song)|Good Times]]" and "Laying Down the Law", which Barnes co-wrote with Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss, Hutchence and Pengilly.<ref name="ASCAP">{{cite web|url=http://www.ddttrh.info/jimmy-barnes-duet-hits/ |title="Laying down the law" cowriters |access-date=11 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922220004/http://www.ddttrh.info/jimmy-barnes-duet-hits/ |archive-date=22 September 2015 }}</ref> "Good Times" was used as the theme for the concert series of 1986–1987.<ref name="Jenkins" /> It peaked at No.&nbsp;2 on the Australian charts,<ref name="Kent" /> and months later was featured in the [[Joel Schumacher]] film ''[[The Lost Boys]]'' and its [[The Lost Boys (soundtrack)|soundtrack]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/r115920 |title=''The Lost Boys'' > Overview |last1=LaVeck |first1=Theresea E. |publisher=Allmusic (Rovi Corporation) |access-date=11 December 2010 |archive-date=19 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019031528/http://www.allmusic.com/album/r115920 |url-status=live }}</ref> allowing it to peak at No.&nbsp;47 in the US on 1 August 1987.<ref name="AMGSingles">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4555/charts-awards/billboard-singles |title=INXS > Charts & Awards > Billboard singles |website=AllMusic |access-date=7 December 2010 |archive-date=2 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302015048/https://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/inxs |url-status=live }}</ref> Divinyls' lead singer [[Chrissy Amphlett]] enjoyed the tour and reconnected with Hutchence, stating that "[he] was a sweet man, who said in one interview that he wanted me to have his baby".<ref name="Jenkins" /> In 1987, Hutchence provided vocals for Richard Clapton's album ''Glory Road'', which was produced by Jon Farriss.<ref name="ARDbMH" />

INXS released ''[[Kick (INXS album)|Kick]]'' in October 1987, and the album provided the band with worldwide popularity. ''Kick'' peaked at No.&nbsp;1 in Australia,<ref name="Kent" /> No.&nbsp;3 on the US ''Billboard'' 200,<ref name="AMGAlbums">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4555/charts-awards |title=INXS > Charts & Awards > Billboard albums |publisher=Allmusic ([[Rovi Corporation]]) |access-date=7 December 2010 |archive-date=2 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302015048/https://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/inxs |url-status=live }}</ref> No.&nbsp;9 in UK,<ref name="UKCharts">{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/ |title=INXS Singles and Albums Charts |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=27 December 2010 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508182655/https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and No.&nbsp;15 in Austria.<ref name="AUTCharts">{{cite web |url=http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |title=Discographie INXS |publisher=Austrian charts portal (Hung Medien) |access-date=7 December 2010 |archive-date=23 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123101058/http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |url-status=live |language=de}}</ref> The band's most successful studio album, ''Kick'' has been certified six times platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] and spawned four US top 10 singles ("[[New Sensation]]", "[[Never Tear Us Apart]]", "[[Devil Inside (INXS song)|Devil Inside]]" and "[[Need You Tonight]]", the last reaching the top of the US ''Billboard'' singles charts).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inxs-kick-10-things-you-didnt-know-127082/|title=INXS' 'Kick': 10 Things You Didn't Know|first1=Van|last1=Sias|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=19 October 2017|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-date=10 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710040432/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inxs-kick-10-things-you-didnt-know-127082/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/01/05/inxs-kicks-through-genres/|title=INXS' "Kick"s through genres|date=5 January 2018|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525031945/https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/01/05/inxs-kicks-through-genres/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to ''1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them'', the single "Need You Tonight" is not lyrically complex; it is Hutchence's performance where "he sings in kittenish whisper, gently drawing back with the incredible lust of a tiger hunting in the night" that makes the song "as sexy and funky as any white rock group has ever been".<ref name="Creswell1001">{{cite book |last1=Creswell |first1=Toby |title=[[1001 Songs]]: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them |edition=[[RocKwiz]] |orig-year=2005 |year=2007 |publisher=Hardie Grant |location=[[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran]], Vic |isbn=978-1-74066-458-5 |pages=383, 776}}</ref> In September 1988, the band swept the MTV Video Music Awards with the video for "Need You Tonight/Mediate" winning in five categories.<ref name="BandRoadChronology2">{{cite book |last1=St John |first1=Ed |last2=INXS |author-link2=INXS |title=INXS: The Official Inside Story of a Band on the Road |year=1992 |publisher=Mandarin |isbn=1-86330-207-7 |page=75}}</ref>

In 1989, Hutchence collaborated further with Olsen for the [[Max Q (Australian band)|Max Q]] project and was joined by members of Olsen's previous groups including Whirlywirld, [[No (band)|No]] and [[Orchestra of Skin and Bone]].<ref name="ARDbMQ">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515222322/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/m/maxq.html |url-status=usurped |url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/m/maxq.html |title=Max Q |publisher=Australian Rock Database. Passagen (Magnus Holmgren) |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |last2=Shaw |first2=Jullian |archive-date=15 May 2008 |access-date=15 June 2020 }}</ref> They released a [[Max Q (album)|self-titled album]] and three singles, "[[Way of the World (Max Q song)|Way of the World]]", "[[Sometimes (Max Q song)|Sometimes]]" and "Monday Night by Satellite". Max Q disbanded in 1990.<ref name="McFIOO" /><ref name="ARDbMQ"/> ''Max Q'' showed Hutchence exploring the darker side of his music and, with Olsen, he created "one of the most innovative dance music albums of the decade". Hutchence wrote most of the music and provided "an extraordinary performance&nbsp;... it was one of the most significant statements Hutchence was to make".<ref name="Creswell1001" /> In 1990, Hutchence portrayed nineteenth-century Romantic poet [[Percy Shelley]] in [[Roger Corman]]'s film version of ''[[Frankenstein Unbound]]'', which was based on a science fiction time travel story of the same name written by [[Brian Aldiss]].<ref name="Frankenstein">{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frankenstein_unbound/ |title=''Frankenstein Unbound'' Movie Reviews, Pictures |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] ([[Flixster]] Inc) |access-date=6 December 2010 |archive-date=22 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222084916/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frankenstein_unbound/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1990, INXS released ''[[X (INXS album)|X]]'', which spawned more international hits such as "[[Suicide Blonde]]" and "[[Disappear (INXS song)|Disappear]]" (both Top 10 in the US).<ref name="AMGSingles"/> "Suicide Blonde" peaked at No.&nbsp;2 in Australia and No.&nbsp;11 in the UK.<ref name="UKCharts" /> Hutchence, with Andrew Farriss, wrote the song after Hutchence's then-girlfriend, [[Kylie Minogue]], used the phrase "suicide blonde" to describe her look during her 1989 film ''[[The Delinquents (1989 film)|The Delinquents]]''; the film depicted Minogue in a platinum blonde wig.<ref name="MSNKylie">{{cite news|url=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=225964 |title=Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence (1989–1991) |publisher=[[ninemsn]] Pty Ltd |access-date=9 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113129/http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=225964 |archive-date=20 July 2011 }}</ref> Hutchence won Best International Artist at the [[1991 BRIT Awards]] with INXS winning the related group award.<ref name="McF" /> Hutchence provided vocals for pub rockers [[Noiseworks]]' album ''[[Love Versus Money (Noiseworks album)|Love Versus Money]]'' (1991).<ref name="ARDbMH" /> ''[[Welcome to Wherever You Are]]'' was released by INXS in August 1992. It received good critical reviews and went to No.&nbsp;1 in the UK.<ref name="UKCharts" />

[[File:Michael_Hutchence_on_stage.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|January 1994, on stage during the Dirty Honeymoon world tour]]