Bono and Stipe, reprise

Tomorrow's Irish Times has a lengthy profile of Michael Stipe, and it has
the obligatory Bono reference pretty early on, for those interested.

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"REM's lead singer, Michael Stipe, is standing in a swish London hotel
room. He is wearing loose-fitting clothes, thick-rimmed spectacles, and a
quizzical expression. Like a weary professor, he slowly puts down the book
he has just been flicking through (a photo-biography of Samuel Beckett) and
awaits the usual perfunctory introduction. A question about the influence
of Samuel Beckett on the collective work of REM seems unavoidable, if not
downright appropriate.

"Bono told me some time back that I should take some of the theatricality
of Beckett's work into our stage presentation. I loved the suggestion, and
I'd read some of his work, which Bono gave me. Beckett has a strong face,
and great grey hair just like Dashiel Hammett."
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Matt

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