Mar 7, 2023 · Michael Stipe, lead mumbler (and later lead singer) of alt-rock giant R.E.M, has basically been three different people throughout his career. Of course, when you rarely make …

Jan 4, 1980 · In the late 1990s he started a film company, Single Cell Productions, which released “American Movie” (1999) and “Being John Malkovich” (1999). He has several credentials as a …

As a teenager, Michael Stipe attended the Collinsville High school, which he graduated from in 1978. Later, he studied. In art at the University of Georgia. While in college, he also studied …

Jun 9, 2016 · In the late 1980s, filmmakers Jim McKay and Tom Gilroy and R.E.M. frontman, Michael Stipe, produced a series of public service announcements (PSAs) called Direct Effect.

East Coast rap from the late 1980s and early 1990s depicted graphic and angry themes known as "gangsta rap." Who was dubbed the "messiah of melancholy"? Which band was led by …

I know The Wrong Child is about the boy in the bubble that made headlines back in the late 80’s. I love the song and so does Mike Mills (according to several interviews he’s given). Why doesn’t …

As an undergraduate art major at the University of Georgia in the early 1980s, Michael Stipe studied photography and painting before going on to become a singer and songwriter for …

Apr 12, 2024 · UK newspaper the Daily Star ran a story claiming that R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe had admitted that he was gay during an MTV interview shown in the US. Stipe was voicing his …

6 days ago · Peter Buck, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, and Mike Mills backstage at the Hollywood Palladium in 1984. ... to be even passingly familiar with the late 1980s and early 1990s is to …

Jan 9, 2025 · Michael Stipe has just turned 65. To understand why this is an important occasion, please consider two things: Once upon a time, there was a nation in diaspora called The …

Jan 4, 2025 · Michael Stipe of R.E.M. is 65. Born Jan. 4, 1960, in Decatur, Georgia, Stipe formed R.E.M. in 1980 with guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry. The band …

Born John Michael Stipe, in Decatur, Georgia, he was a military brat who spent his childhood moving from place to place with his parents and two brothers. They settled in Illinois, where …

Nov 12, 2011 · I’ve always been fascinated about R.E.M.’s mid-1980s – especially when you recorded Fables of the Reconstruction up in London’s Wood Green. MS: [shakes head] God, …

Nov 23, 2021 · Late one night, in the early 1990s, Stipe was in Athens, hanging out with Todd McBride, who was then the lead singer of a great bar band called the Dashboard Saviors, and …

As the singer for R.E.M., Michael Stipe made musical history by helping to establish the indie underground scene in 1980s America and, later, by bringing alternative rock to the mainstream.