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...I also give out copies of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing like the Bible. There’s a brilliant chapter about being naked and the nude....
...Michael Stipe sings a reverential version of “Sunday Morning”, with a clarinet somnolently standing in for John Cale’s lullaby-like celesta, while The National’s Matt Berninger makes a gentrified rock-and-roll...
...Yet a few hours later, he convinced me to let former UFC fighter John Lewis choke me out until I was unconscious. Twice....
...It has become his go-to track for starry duets: in 2004 he sang it with REM’s Michael Stipe in a Vote For Change concert in support of the would-be president, John Kerry, and has performed it multiple times...
...Even our most famous art student, John Lennon, was a rascal. Byrne’s old bandmates know more than most about the transatlantic difference in rock culture....
...Michael Stipe, REM’s singer, is also here but chooses to enjoy the reunion from the floor....
...This time last year, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe from R.E.M. turned up at the Oxford Zodiac to play with him. Out of the blue?...
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