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                    [ArticleID] => 373905
                    [Title] => MiG Ayesa happily living his fantasy
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Whoever said MiG Ayesa is just about rock should be banished into the darkest corner of the attic. That’s because putting the Rockstar INXs search third placer in a box is an injustice.

[DatePublished] => 2006-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355415 [Title] => The vanguard attitude [Summary] => Once, as a child, I overheard my father saying casually to guests assembled at dinner: "If you have sons, you wait up for however long it takes until they get home safely; but if you have daughters, the only thing you can do is pray."
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134178 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1322844 [AuthorName] => FORTyFIED By Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354576 [Title] => Raised on leather [Summary] => For the rest of our lives, every guy we date will be off the hook because we already complete each other. She celebrated her birthday all the way in Sydney, without me. I told her to go get her law degree because no one could do it better. So because I cannot be there, I’ve decided to bang away on my keyboard like Kerouac and, without second drafts or Shift+F7 shortcuts, talk about the one thing that will bind us until we are decrepit, tattooed and toothless spinsters: rock and roll.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136186 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1789952 [AuthorName] => WHIPPERSNAPPER By Francesca Ayala [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352389 [Title] => INXS rests its future on Fortune [Summary] => INXS, Switch
Epic, 2006

A shared tale two decades removed:

In May 1981, magnificent Manchester band Joy Division was on the verge of a US tour. In November 1997, magnificent Australian band INXS was on the verge of an anniversary tour.

Neither came to pass, as both their vocalists decided to end their lives that month – Ian Curtis in the kitchen of his home, Michael Hutchence in a Ritz Hotel room in Sydney.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435777 [AuthorName] => Kap Maceda Aguila [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352575 [Title] => INXS rests its future on Fortune [Summary] => INXS, Switch
Epic, 2006

A shared tale two decades removed:

In May 1981, magnificent Manchester band Joy Division was on the verge of a US tour. In November 1997, magnificent Australian band INXS was on the verge of an anniversary tour.

Neither came to pass, as both their vocalists decided to end their lives that month – Ian Curtis in the kitchen of his home, Michael Hutchence in a Ritz Hotel room in Sydney.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435777 [AuthorName] => Kap Maceda Aguila [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352025 [Title] => Celebrity suicides [Summary] => Hours before Michael Hutchence was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney, he placed a call to TV actress Paula Yates, the mother of his love child Tiger Lily. Michael was disconsolate. He wanted Paula to come to Australia because he could not bear not to see his daughter Tiger Lily. Paula had just come from a British court where she and former husband Sir Bob Geldof where engaged in child custody case over their three daughters. Paula said she could not come at that very moment. She and Michael had to wait for a few more weeks before they could see each other. [DatePublished] => 2006-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134006 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804782 [AuthorName] => Boy Abunda [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351238 [Title] => INXS: The day the music almost died [Summary] => I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew that I was out of luck
The day the music died

– from Don McLean’s American Pie


Oh, well, the day when the music almost died for INXS was on Nov. 22, 1997 when vocalist Michael Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney hotel room, an apparent victim of suicide.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) ) )
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