Photography is really my first lov in terms of mediums. With music and with ourm we always thought that the first song on a record is really an important way of introducing some one into a world you may not have explored before. And here's, here's our versionof a different type of reality. I employed that recently on the velvet underground cover version that i did of sunday morning for tod haines's documentary about the velvet underground. Ah, i did it with hal wilner, my dear friend, whoh died recently of coved. But, ah, but i wanted, knowing that it was going to be the first song,. i wanted to introduce the album
Michael Stipe joins to talk about his remarkable life, photography practice, and career as the lead singer and lyricist for the band R.E.M.