Michael Hutchence Feat Bono - Slideaway (new) Apr 2026

Producer Andy Gill knew there was only one person who could fill that space. He picked up the phone and called Dublin.

But it was incomplete. It lacked a counterpoint. It needed a voice that could answer Michael from across the void. Michael Hutchence feat Bono - Slideaway (NEW)

For hours, Bono poured himself into the microphone. He shouted, he whispered, and he wailed. He added lines about streetlights, about the heavy rain of London, and about the blinding lights of the stage that could so easily blind the person standing center stage. Producer Andy Gill knew there was only one

He stepped up to the microphone. He didn't warm up. He wanted the raw, unvarnished emotion of the moment. It lacked a counterpoint

Among these tracks was "Slideaway." In its raw form, it was a dark, brooding masterpiece. Michael’s vocals were captured in a low, gravelly register, a stark contrast to the soaring falsettos of his stadium-filling days. It was a song about the exhausting gravity of fame, the desperate need to escape, and the terrifying beauty of letting go.

Michael Hutchence had been gone for two years. The shockwaves of his sudden passing in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 had settled into a dull, permanent ache for those who loved him. He left behind a vault of unfinished solo work—songs that captured a man trying to shed the skin of the leather-clad INXS rock god to reveal something raw, electronic, and deeply personal.