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SKULLY WIKI
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Mark Riordan
bringing your music trivia facts from around the world
"Suicide Blonde" is the first single from the INXS album X - awesome album and very much played in our house today! It reached the top 10 on the US Hot 100
It is rumoured that Hutchence's girlfriend at the time, Kylie Minogue, gave him the inspiration for the title while working on her 1989 film The Delinquents. Minogue was required to dye her hair platinum blonde for the role and was quoted by Hutchence in an interview in '89 as saying "I'm going suicide blonde today."
The main riff in the song is a simple rework of the driving funk riff in the band's 1984 single "Original Sin," produced by Nile Rodgers - same key, same riff. This has come to be known as Rodgers' signature riff and can be heard from the 1970s heyday of Chic ("Soup for One") to the mid 1980s Duran Duran pop hit "Notorious," also produced by Rodgers. Click on the links and listen for yourself!
SUICIDE BLONDE by INXS
The song title comes from a phrase describing a woman who colors her hair blonde as "dyeing" from her own hand.