Interview with Michael Stipe
Tuesday, December 1st, 1992By Joshua Simon
12.01.92
Life Magazine
R.E.M. was born 12 years ago, at the dawn of a new decade. Based in Athens, GA the quartet erupted in the mid-1980s with a jangly, agitprop brand of rock that attracted a politically progressive college-radio audience — and firmed last year with a top-10 hit, “Losing My Religion,” a triple-platinum album, [...]