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Archive for March, 1993

R.E.M.’s Death Murmurs

Friday, March 5th, 1993

By Bill Wyman
03.05.93
Chicago Reader
When Eric Clapton lost a son in a freak high-rise fall, he was so broken up he hired a songwriter to help him write a tune about it. He sold the resulting “Tears in Heaven” as sound track fodder for a dumb, exploitative movie about drugs (”Rush”). A year later he [...]