You first started reading about the club, CBGBs, when you were in the magazine Roxine. And that is also when you made your first recording and I understand your sister had one of those old school audio tape recorders. You locked yourself in the den and turned the machine on record and screamed for 10 minutes. All this is true, but it was a cream magazine.
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.