“And then she asked me to come sing with her at her Christmas show [later that year ... And then I went and saw him afterwards. I met Michael Stipe backstage, and I was just blown away by ...

Retrospective anecdotes from those involved have since claimed that the sessions lasted for anything from 10 days to three weeks (with the band taking a break for the Christmas period) straddling ...

R.E.M. – Losing My Religion R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official HD Music Video) Tarsem Singh directed this painterly clip for R.E.M.'s breakthrough hit, which saw singer Michael Stipe lip sync ...

Later, at camp, Space Ghost, standing in front of some kids, wraps up a story about how he saved Christmas, and orders them to get back to work. Space Ghost gets hungry while interviewing guests ...

And over the course of the next two-odd hours, those songs did indeed travel, carried by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Karen O, Scarlett Johansen, Sean Penn, Kim Gordon, Maggie Rogers ...

The show featured Patti Smith covers from friends and admirers like Michael Stipe, Karen O, Matt Berninger, Jesse Malin, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Kim Gordon, among many others.

Michael Stipe, alongside Smith’s daughter Jesse on keyboards and guitarist Andy LeMaster, presented “My Blakean Year,” a deceptively simple, workman-like song that Patti Smith is fond of performing ...

“My Blakean Year,” also from Trampin’, always sounded a bit like an R.E.M. song, and Michael Stipe made that even more explicit with a hypnotic version that did indeed sound like an outtake ...

There were also recitations of Patti’s poetry and other writing from Michael Shannon, Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, and Jim Jarmusch. At the end of the night, Patti herself came out and recited ...

Smith’s longtime friends and collaborators gave particularly striking performances, such at Michael Stipe’s rendition of “My Blakean Year” alongside her tried and true backing band of Tony ...

Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute. Out & about Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen ...