You first started reading about the club jbes when you were 13, in the magazine, i believe it's called rocxing. And that is also when you made your first recording. Your sister had one of those old school audio tape recorders,. One day, when everyone had left, you locked yourself in the den in the basement and turned the machine on record and screamed for ten minutes.
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.