By Xavi Sancho (El País)
In 1986, the American group REM released a song called
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine
).
The idea for these lyrics came to the singer of the group, Michael Stipe (born in Decatur, USA, in 1960), in a dream.
He was going to a party where all the guests had the initials LB.
Leonard Bernstein, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs, Leonid Brezhnev… They all appear in the song.
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Young Stipe was then far from imagining that the success of this song and the album in which it appears (
Document
) would propel the career of his group, probably the most brilliant and lasting example of an independent rock band. became a mass phenomenon, but would also be a premonition of his life for the next four decades, including after the band's disbandment in 2011. At the moment, Michael Stipe is presenting his third book as an artist,
Portraits
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