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I was performing and writing and singing with rem. and ive used photography in my life almost like a diary, because i dont really write anything down. and so the images, for me, are kind of a way of remembering my extraordinary and very, very lucky life. ive had a sneak preview of the book of photographs and images, which you are currently releasing, and its fascinating to me because its partly, it seems, a visual memoir. there are people in that book, pictures of people in that book who... well...

Of fear and the way you admire people who confront their fears head—on and walk toward them, rather than run away from them. let me ask you, in your life, whether you think youve been good at that, at confronting your own fears. i have not been good at that, and thats part of what this project is about. my father was a helicopter pilot in the american army. and he went to korea, and he went to vietnam twice. and he ran reconnaissance as a pilot. he did things that i consider to be the most ins...

You and the old band? i mean, we never were very rock and roll, stephen. i think we were more of a pop band, you know. and i particularly know, of course. and in terms of a reunion, no, just give it up. its not going to happen. categorically not? no, absolutely not. and ive said that a zillion times, and ill say it one more time. its not going to happen. well, we hear you, michael. but its not that youre giving up music entirely, cos sparingly you do release new music. and i wonder whether you f...

I talked in my introduction about your sort of discussion of fear and the way you admire people who confront their fears head—on and walk toward them, rather than run away from them. let me ask you, in your life, whether you think youve been good at that, at confronting your own fears. i have not been good at that, and thats part of what this project is about. my father was a helicopter pilot in the american army and he went to korea, and he went to vietnam twice. to vietnam twice and he ran r...

Of never looked back. but i took photographs the whole time that i was performing and writing and singing with rem. and ive used photography in my life almost like a diary, because i dont really write anything down. and so the images, for me, are kind of a way of remembering my extraordinary and very, very lucky life. ive had a sneak preview of the book of photographs and images which you are currently releasing and its fascinating to me because its partly, it seems, a visual memoir. there are p...

Many, 40,000 people, and would be like, "how do you do that? i dont understand." so, its a little bit like, i guess, were looking at each other and recognising traits that are inspiring or that we acknowledge as aspirational. my father being, of course, a brilliant example for me. well, let me take on that question of you and rem and how you did that because you started, you know, in those sort of underground venues in georgia — in athens, georgia, with small crowds and an indie vibe. but you ...

Those were the headlines. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. inevitably, we associate artists with the times in which they emerge and the work which brings them widespread acclaim. so, it is with my guest today, michael stipe, lead singer of the american band rem, who were pioneers of an indie rock sound which emerged from a georgia college campus in the �*80s and won world—wide acclaim in the 1990s. now, hes a visual artist who records new music sparingly. he...

Very, very, very obese and very sad—looking and that was not my, kind of, natural state. you had your most extraordinary successes in the early to mid 1990s. out of time was an album that the critics loved and then it sold, i think, by the million. and then you had automatic for the people. and, actually, if you dont mind, michael, we want tojust play a little clip of one of the most famous rem songs of all time, losing my religion, which you played at glastonbury. so, letsjust have, both of u...

Could that happen to you and the old band? i mean, we never were very rock and roll, stephen. i think we were more of a pop band, you know. and i particularly know, of course. and in terms of a reunion, no, just give it up. its not going to happen. categorically not? no, absolutely not. and ive said that a zillion times, and ill say it one more time. its not going to happen. well, we hear you, michael. but its not that youre giving up music entirely, cos sparingly you do release new music. and i...

# that was just a dream. # thats me in the corner... michael, when you look back at those images of you from that super successful period of your life, does it seem like a million miles away or is there something of that still very much in you today? you know, i watched that performance actually very recently. patti smith, who is a great friend, ran it on — she does a substack where she writes and speaks and sends it out to her fans through email. and she honoured my band in a conversation tha...