In 2011, after countless awards becoming one of the world's most successful and respected bands of all time, selling over 85 million. I said to myself, I've done a song with more yas than any Nirvana song I've ever written. It was only after the song was written that I said, hey, Kurt, guess what I've done. And we had a laugh about it, I think. But that song was written in Seattle on a walk,. Man, walking around the block of the street and Peter Buck had moved there... They literally shared a fence.
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.