A comprehensive archive of R.E.M. articles from newspapers, magazines and online.

Archive for January, 1995

Murmur

Tuesday, January 24th, 1995

01.24.95
Out NOW!
Thanks to YbeeXiv@aol.com for this article.
Michael Stipe is bisexual. Now that the lead singer of the rock group R.E.M. has said in a magazine interview that he sleeps with members of both sexes, it’s time to look at the mindset in our community that creates such reluctant icons.
Those who know Stipe say that his [...]

Cyberspace, Sex, And The Mysterious Stipe-Man

Thursday, January 19th, 1995

By Michael Goldberg
01.19.95
Addicted To Noise
Thanks to YbeeXiv@aol.com for this article.
Michael Stipe, the idiosyncratic frontman from R.E.M., strides through the bar of the plush Ritz Carlton hotel in the expensive Double Bay district of Sydney looking like a Holocaust victim. He’s skinny to the point of malnourishment, jaw bone jutting out, head shaved.
He may look ill, [...]

Mumbledy-Mumbledy-Mumbledy-Gook

Tuesday, January 3rd, 1995

By Mark Morrison
01.03.95
Roanoke Times And World News
Thanks to Yb for providing this article.
Ok, maybe it doesn’t rank with some of the great mysteries of our time. But it’s up there somewhere, debated line-by-line, mumble-by-mumble, like details from the Warren Commission report. It’s now part of our culture. And the legions who care about such things [...]