Michael Hutchence, portrait for Harper’s Bazaar Australia, Rosemount Avenue Studio, Sydney, 1985

I went to this party and I spotted Michael and he looked interesting and standing with his girlfriend, Michele Bennett. So, I went up to them and said, ‘Hello, I'm Robert, who are you? And what do you do?’ And Michael said, ‘Oh, I'm a singer,’ and Michelle said, ‘I'm a model.’ I just turned to one side and said, ‘If I meet another singer and another model in Australia, I'm going to scream.’ We became friends over that because I was just perfectly natural. I didn't know who he was. I'd just come back from London. After that, Harper's Bazaar asked me to do portraits of people wearing their favourite outfits. I asked the editor and a few friends ‘Who's the most famous rock star in Australia?’ because I wanted to do all different walks of life. And a few of them said, Michael Hutchence and I said, ‘Oh no, that's the guy I was rude to.’ I managed to contact him through his agent, and he said, ‘Yes, of course.’ And he came to the studio and he brought with him his favourite things. You can see on the hat there's a little mini car, and the hat and the badges. These are things that fans threw to him on stage, and he kept.