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"For a singer who mumbled his lyrics and refused almost all interviews in his early years, the Olympia shows laid bare a creative process once steeped in enigma. Stretching his memory back to a time when coming from Athens, Georgia was enough to confer a little Southern Gothic mystique upon R.E.M.’s music, Stipe concedes: 'There used to be some wilful obscurity going on there. But of all the members of the band, I’m the least enigmatic and, really, the least eccentric — and yet those terms have followed us around.'”
A pretty solid interview with Michael about the upcoming Olympia releases (among other things) <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6866466.ece">has been posted on The Times site.</a>
