Previously unheard Michael Hutchence songs and a documentary on the final years of his life are set to be released to mark 20 years since the rock star's death. A total of 15 songs recorded by the lead singer and lyricist of INXS will be released including two duets with 'very big' artists. The Need You Tonight singer was found dead in a hotel room at Sydney's Carlton Ritz Hotel in 1997 when he was just 37. He hung himself at the height of a bitter custody row over Paula Yates' children with her ex-husband Bob Geldof. Sydney entrepreneur Ron Creevey, who runs Kings Cross studio and The X Studio, has spent the past two years compiling the singer's unheard music with LA-based record producer Danny Saber. 'I heard some time ago about some unreleased music that was sitting out there and then I approached (Hutchence's) trust directly,' Creevey said. 'At least five songs are brilliant. There's going to be two duets that will come out with two very big artists that I can't legally name at the moment and then there's singles he did himself.' Saber, a producer on Hutchence's self-titled solo album released in 1999, said he and Hutchence had been working on music together not long before he died. Mr Creevey has also been gathering artefacts and documents belonging to Hutchence to build up a picture of the final years of his life. 'I do know every single individual and or company who interfere with INXS/Michael copyrights are about to find themselves in very deep legal trouble,' he wrote in an email to AAP. Creevey denies that Murphy has any claim over the new music.
Source: Mail Online
