DRUGGED, drunk and distraught, Michael Hutchence scribbled his final lyrics before taking his own life in a plush Sydney hotel.
The lost last song of a music legend, found screwed up and thrown away in the bathroom bin of the INXS frontman’s room at the Ritz-Carlton, has been revealed by former inspector detectives Mark Smith and Michael Gerondis, the officers who led the investigation into his death.
More than 16 years after the rock and roll suicide, they have described for the first time the scene inside Hutchence’s room, providing an intimate glimpse into the rock star’s anguished state of mind.
With dark nicotine stains on his fingers and a months-old cigarette burn so deep it exposed the bone, Hutchence’s corpse showed the tell-tale signs of a man bent on destruction.
“The cigarette went right through his fingers and it was sort of infected,” Mr Gerondis said.
There were also signs of a desperate attempt to score drugs. When that failed Hutchence had rifled through the same bin where the song was found for any last dregs of cocaine.
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