Like her younger brother Michael, Tina Hutchence grew up in Australia and Hong Kong. She followed in the professional footsteps of her mother, Patricia Glassop, forging a career as a make-up artist for film and television before moving into education and the lecture circuit in the USA. She has spent most of her life since then living between California and Australia. In the wake of Michael’s shock death, she co-wrote Just a Man: The real Michael Hutchence (2000, 2001) with Patricia. Tina became her widowed mother’s loving carer before 81-year-old Patricia passed away from ovarian cancer in 2010. She continues to cherish time with her own children, grandchildren and wider family. She also manages and contributes to the website michaelhutchenceinfo.com and is currently involved in a project to honour Michael with a statue in the country of his birth for the benefit of Michael’s fans and his memory.
Jen Jewel Brown was the first Down Under reporter for Australian Rolling Stone. She met and interviewed Michael in mid-1980, also dueting with him on his first solo single, ‘Speed Kills’, from the soundtrack of Freedom (1982). When Professional Manager at MCA/Gilbey, Jen helped sign INXS to a worldwide music publishing deal which helped fund their overseas touring. The author, poet and journalist first made contact with Tina when interviewing her for an essay about Max Q for the anthology Rock Country (2013). She’s an interviewer for the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia and part of the writing Brains Trust for television/live show RocKwiz. Jen wrote Skyhooks Million Dollar Riff (1975), and more recently about Frank Zappa, an essay for the press kit of the documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in his own words (2016) and liner notes for Frank Zappa/Mothers The Roxy Performances seven-album box set (2018).