Michael takes on Paris

"American Way," the magazine of American Airlines and American Eagle, features Michael on the cover in its most recent issue talking about Paris, one of his favorite cities in the world. Excerpt: "In 1983, a little-known rock band from Athens, Georgia, was rolling through Europe to promote its debut full-length album. What the quartet didn’t know at the time was the influence the trip would have on the band and the effect a certain city would have on its lead singer. That city was Paris, the band was R.E.M., and the lead singer was Michael Stipe. A curly-haired youth of 23 at the time, Stipe remembers the City of Light as being one of the most amazing places he’d ever seen.

"Between gigs, we sat down with Stipe at the bar at the Peninsula hotel in Chicago, where, armed with a laptop full of notes he’d jotted down about Paris for the interview, he proceeded to take us through the city that left such a vivid impression on him some two decades ago."

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