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Michael Stipe

July 2024

  • (LEFT TO RIGHT) AUDIE THE HORSE, JERRY, KELLY, DOMINIQUE, DAVEY. OUTSIDE ATHENS FALL 1982. PHOTO BY MARLYS LENZ COX, COLORIZED

    ‘They taught me how to dress’: Michael Stipe on Limbo District, the greatest band you’ve never heard of

    The wild art-rockers influenced REM and the B-52s, but burned out without making it big. As old recordings resurface, ex-members and fans recall their unorthodox brilliance

April 2022

  • Michael Stipe, New York City, 1999

    Hit the South: Christy Bush’s rock’n’roll America – in pictures

  • Brian Eno.

    ‘Capitalism didn’t understand community’: Brian Eno steps up the climate crisis battle

April 2021

  • Michael Stipe in his studio

    Michael Stipe: ‘The male idea of power is so dumb’

    He was in the one of the most influential indie bands ever, but the songwriter prefers life as a visual artist. He talks presidents, parties and photographing his heroes

February 2021

  • ‘This new guide from Georgia with the huge pale blue eyes’ ... Michael Stipe during REM’s headline set at Glastonbury 1999.

    The fandom that made me
    REM: how the arty pop gods taught a shy south Wales girl to be herself

    For a teenager steeped in Welsh choir music, Michael Stipe’s kaleidoscope of artistic influences – and mega-success – were too irresistible not to follow

January 2020

  • Michael Stipe.

    The Q&A
    Michael Stipe: ‘Who would I say sorry to? Everyone I slept with before the age of 27’

    The REM frontman on smoking, Susan Sontag and how it feels to be in love

October 2019

  • ‘Celebrating River now feels joyful’ … Rain Phoenix.

    Rain Phoenix on her new album River: 'My brother has been my guiding light'

  • ‘These are passport photos from 1987,’ says Stipe. ‘I was a beautiful young man and I didn’t know it.’

    It’s the end of the world as we know it... and Michael Stipe feels fine

April 2019

  • ‘I don’t view the world in binary terms’ … Michael Stipe.

    REM's Michael Stipe on his 37,000 photos – of stars, lovers and Kurt Cobain's hands

    Photography has been a lifelong passion for the singer. He talks us through his finest shots, from a sleeping River Phoenix to ‘his queer grandfather’ William Burroughs

March 2019

  • OM Archive - 21/5/89

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: REM release Green, 1989

    Jon Savage goes to New York to meet ‘the best rock band in the world’. By Chris Hall

October 2018

  • RIVER PHOENIX RUNNING ON EMPTY (1988)

    The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death

    Phenomenally talented and famously caring, River Phoenix’s death shocked the world. His girlfriend Samantha Mathis talks for the first time about that awful night, and the man behind the myth

July 2018

  • John Warren Mobley Stipe Jr’s hands, Grady Avenue, Athens, 1993

    The intimate art of Michael Stipe – in pictures

    The REM singer-songwriter is releasing the first in a series of publications focused on his multifaceted approach to art

February 2018

  • Support Bands Composite

    I'm with the band: meet the pitiful proteges of pop music patrons

    From Kurt Cobain espousing the middling Melvins to Kanye West signing a singer from the library circuit, an artist’s ability to make great music doesn’t always mean they can identify it

January 2018

  • Michael Stipe<br>American singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. with the word 'Love' printed on his arm, circa 2000. (Photo by Tim Roney/Getty Images)

    My songbook
    'I'm a pretty good pop star': Michael Stipe on his favourite REM songs

    In our series where musicians tell the stories behind what they regard as their greatest songs, the REM frontman reveals how glam rock, grunge and INXS inspired the band – and how internal divisions tore them apart

November 2016

  • REM in 1991

    REM on Out of Time at 25: ‘Being the voice of a generation is not a pretty place to be’

    Their seventh album made them superstars. But the fame cost REM a band member and, nearly, their friendships. In a rare interview, five years after splitting, they discuss legacy, Trump and why they’re still sorry for Shiny Happy People

October 2016

  • Manning is serving 35 years at the military prison in For Leavenworth, Kansas.

    Chelsea Manning emerges from solitary confinement after suicide attempt

    ‘I’m OK,’ Manning tweeted, ending several days without communication while in solitary as punishment for having tried to take her own life in military prison

April 2016

  • Cyndi Lauper

    The Music of David Bowie review – tears shed as stars pay tribute to starman

    From The Flaming Lips to Cat Power to Pixies to Debbie Harry, the lineup at the heartfelt tribute night was as wide-ranging and celebrated as Bowie’s career

March 2016

  • David Bowie’s tribute concert … coming to a stream near you.

    David Bowie tribute concert to be streamed live

    Show featuring Pixies, Blondie, Michael Stipe, J Mascis, the Flaming Lips and more will be streamed live for fans in return for a charity donation

February 2016

  • SHOWBIZ Bowie3<br>David Bowie performs on stage at the relaunch of the Carling Apollo, Hammersmith, in west London, Wednesday October, 2, 2002. PA photo: Myung Jung Kim

    David Bowie tribute will star Debbie Harry, Pixies, Mumford & Sons and Bette Midler

    The lineup for the two tribute shows in New York on 31 March and 1 April also includes the Roots, Cat Power, Laurie Anderson, Michael Stipe and Robyn Hitchcock

April 2015

  • lgbt

    The silence on abuse of transgender inmates in US prisons is deafening

    Elton John and Michael Stipe
    The cruelty and violence facing transgender people in our prisons is directly connected to the larger fight for equality for the LGBT community everywhere in America
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