I have been listening to some old INXS lately and I really miss the OG band. It's such a shame Micheal took his own life, knowing what a great voice he had and what could have been...

So was there any clues as to what prompted such a drastic and tragic move?

I don't think he meant to kill himself, he was on lots of drugs and got kinky with himself.

yeah pretty sure it was auto-erotic asphyxiation.

The result of his death has been in contention ever since it happened. Although ruled a suicide by the coroner, according to his report, it was so -

"...While depressed and under the influence of drugs and alcohol. An analysis report of the deceased's blood indicates the presence of alcohol, cocaine, Prozac and other prescription drugs. On consideration of the entirety of the evidence gathered I am satisfied that the deceased was in a severe depressed state on the morning of the 22 November 1997, due to a number of factors, including the relationship with Paula Yates and the pressure of the on-going dispute with Bob Geldof, combined with the effects of the substances that he had ingested at that time. As indicated I am satisfied that the deceased intended and did take his own life."

Members of his family (who are still trying to get the verdict of suicide overturned), friends and many fans, however, consider his death more likely accidental. Or as it's medically termed "Death by misadventure".

Regardless, the short answer is still in the coroner's report.

Who is Michael Hutchens?

What was this dispute with Bob Geldof?

It was over Paula Yates

Yates met Geldof in the early days of The Boomtown Rats. They became a couple in 1976 when she flew to Paris to surprise him while the band was playing there. Their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, was born on 31 March 1983[4], named Fifi after Bob's aunt Fifi and Trixibelle because Paula wanted a belle in the family[5]. After 10 years together, they married on 31 August 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran acting as Geldof's best man. The couple then had two more daughters, Peaches Geldof [6] on 13 March 1989, and Pixie Geldof on 17 September 1990.
Yates first met Michael Hutchence in a 1985 interview on Channel 4's rock magazine programme The Tube. Recalling that meeting for The Best of the Tube, Yates said that she had essentially interviewed Hutchence's crotch and he had invited her back to his hotel room, adding that she'd replied, "Michael, I have a baby." In the same edition, she stated that she and Annie Lennox had "skated across" a lesbian relationship during the period when they lived together in "a hippy commune", shortly before her marriage to Geldof.[citation needed]
During this appearance on The Tube, Yates was reportedly asked to leave Hutchence alone by the Road Manager of INXS when Paula walked up to him and said, "I'm going to have that boy." "Paula was unmoved and began to show up at INXS gigs everywhere for the next few years...she even brought her daughter (Fifi Geldof)."[7] Yates doggedly maintained an irregular contact during the intervening nine years and their affair had been underway long before the Big Breakfast interview.[8] In 1995, Yates left Geldof.
Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. Two months later Yates's daughter with Hutchence, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence (known as 'Tiger') was born on 22 July 1996.[9]
On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. Paula Yates wrote in her police statement that Michael Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby". During their phone conversations on the morning of his suicide he had said, "I don't know how I'll live without Tiger". Yates also wrote that Bob Geldof had threatened them repeatedly with, "Don't forget, I am above the law".[10] Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the Coroner's verdict of suicide.[11] She eventually sought psychiatric treatment.

Bob Geldof wasn't just above the law, he was the law!

Alas, Micahel, we hardly knew ye....

That's Sir Bob, to you.

Really? It was Live Aid that did it, wasn't it?

I remember rumors that it was a choke-n-stroke gone wrong.

Yeah well you're really flippin' the coin with the old choke-n-stroke. It could go either way.

It came up tails for Mikheil Hutchkins.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yeah, sorry for the misspellings....typed it while playing a videogame

For those who don't know Paula Yates also died a few years later. Bob Geldolf ended up raising the child anyways.

Well raising one child is nothing to someone who can feed the world.

Because it's the Otter Way, here's Fifi Trixibelle:



You must admit, for someone named Fifi Trixibelle she turned out pretty well.

Guilty.

Whole lotta guilty

The guilt is strong with this one.

It's quite clear to me that Trixi Hicksabelli (or, you know, whatever) killed Michael Hutchence. (And, come to think of it, Michael Hutchens, a 42-year old insurance adjustor from Waukon, Iowa).

Why do celebrities hate their children so much? Fifi Trixibelle? Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily? C'mon.....

Those are those names that are conjured up while they're laying around in bed in frilly nightshirts high on coke.

Oh Michael wouldn't it be wonderful if we named her Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily?

Huh? What? Yeah sure. Hand me the coke spoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Yates

On 17 September 2000, her daughter Pixie's 10th birthday, Yates, 41, was found dead at her home in London of an accidental heroin overdose.
The coroner ruled that it was not a suicide, but a result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour.

Soon after her death, ex-husband Bob Geldof assumed a foster custody of Tiger Lily with the willing consent of Hutchence's parents, so that she could be raised with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie.
Her aunt, Tina Hutchence, the sister of INXS singer Michael Hutchence, was denied permission by the judge to apply for Tiger Lily to live with her in California.

In 2007, Geldof further applied to a British court for and was granted formal adoption of Tiger Lily and a change of her surname to Geldof, despite vocal opposition from Hutchence's mother and sister.
Since January 2008 her legal full name has been Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof.

Or Sir Geldof according to Chris Moltisanti from the Sopranos.