Michael Stipe’s studio, on the Lower East Side ... Are you sort of a pack rat? Yeah, I’m a hoarder. But I have to write ’em down, or they’re gone. So, what is the idea of the book ...

From left, standing: Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry ... was a young record-store rat who took a part-time job behind a counter, paid in vinyl, even after the band had established ...