By Mark Blackwell
11.27.95
Huh Magazine
Michael Stipe is particularly excited this evening about a rather bizarre method of of sexual intercourse which he has just experienced for the very first time during his freewheeling travels through distant foreign lands. The singer explicitly relates the erotic ins-and-outs of the exhilarating act over dinnner in a chic Italian retaurant [...]
11.24.95
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thanks to Yb for this article.
The stage got more than a little crowded Tuesday night at the Omni as sports stars, other musicians, friends and members of R.E.M.’s extended “family” helped the Athens-based band celebrate the end of its “Monster” world tour.
With tennis stars Monica Seles and Jim Courier watching R.E.M.’s third sold-out Atlanta [...]
By Parry Gettelman
11.17.95
Orlando Sentinel
I don’t remember ever so much as glancing at my watch during R.E.M. shows in the ’80s. But at the Orlando Arena Wednesday night, I had to examine the face a number of times because the hands didn’t seem to be moving.
Perhaps R.E.M. is getting a bit road-weary. The group has been [...]
By Bryant Frazer
10.11.95
Deep Focus
In the video for “Everybody Hurts,” a track from R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People album, the band gets caught in a traffic jam at one of those highway interchanges where roads and bridges crisscross above and below one another like something out of a silent German film. The camera tracks across the [...]