There were things Michael Stipe wished he could have said to his friend actor and musician River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at 23. When R.E.M. began working on their tenth album New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Stipe started writing the labyrinthine letter to his late friend. “There’s a handful of people I’ve met in my […]
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