Anyone going to watch Michael Hutchence Mystify?

[EachandEveryone]

Im really looking forward to it. I was a huge fan back in my teens.

I thought that "need you tonight" was out years before he even met Paula?

It was diddl, I think pp was confused

Does anyone know where I can stream this for free?

BBC iPlayer

I can't get that as I'm overseas (no vpn) but thank you.

I remember Paula on the The Big Breakfast Show - 1992-1994, (interviewing celebs on the bed) and she looked fit and fabulous then. Her decline appeared to coincide with MH. I can believe she was teetotal before she paired up with him.

Her decline appeared to coincide with MH. I can believe she was teetotal before she paired up with him

Me too. I have a friend who didn't start taking drugs til she was in her forties (which also coincided with a destructive relationship). It's not unheard of.

Oh, I stand corrected about Stuck in A Moment. I always thought that Bono wrote it for Paula Yates, as the lyrics, to me, speak to her situation more than MH's plus he refers to the subject of the song as Darling, Love and Baby.
Need You Tonight, was claimed by Paula Yates as for her, and was based on the on off flirtation/ relationship she had with Michael Hutchens, after they first met in 1985 - 2 years before the song was written.

interesting interview with Paula Yates after MH's death. She wouldn't accept the suicide verdict.

If Paula first met MH in 1985, wasn't that before she married BG?

And only had the eldest daughter?

So not really anything to stop them getting together then?

I've watched lots of you tube clips today, many with Paula in, you can tell that they liked each other, even on the interview on The Tube. She had gorgeous skin.

I do remember the papers day after day having articles about MH and PY, it was endless

Me too, they were utterly hounded.

I think the issue with Paula Yates was that she set herself up as a combined earth mother/domestic goddess type. It was almost as if journalists were waiting for her to fall off her pedestal which she so spectacularly did when she met MH.

Being with BG, was a help and a hindrance to her. Vile things were said when their 1st child was born. Along the lines of"who needs another Geldof Bastard!"
Imagine
She was the 1st tv presenter I remember seeing hosting a show whilst pregnant. Not sure if a Blue Peter woman had done so as well but PY in a red satin dress, pregnant and on THE Tube.
She was gobby bright and got up some noses

I'm not defending the media but PY was constantly selling stories to them during her time with MH and afterwards. They were her source of income.

I might be misremembering but wasnt Janet Ellis pregnant with Sophie Ellus-Bextor whenbshe did blue Peter?

Tina Heath certainly was 79-80 with baby Gemma. One show included her scan. Viewers sent her loads of baby clothes.

Ah, here you go: It is commonly believed that Ellis was sacked from the programme in 87 for being unmarried and pregnant with son Jackson, but in recent years Ellis has stated that she was fully supported by the Blue Peter production team and the decision to leave the programme was her own. [wiki]

I remember watching the show with baby Gemma and the scan ,I was 8 or 9.