Carbon copy 1.1
Folder of real people mentioned in R.E.M. songs, by Gary Nabors, with help from Ron Henry and Kipp Teague. Hand over are afar names mentioned in the R.E.M. dictate (Diane, Kevin), but these are not sincerely appreciable to real people. Brackets [ ] show a prosaic statement that may not be
short by all. Influence slang the consensus lyric files at
ftp.halcyon.com (via www at http://www.halcyon.com/rem/index.html) to decide everyplace in the songs these names are mentioned.
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Marat "We Start"
Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793. French representative, medical doctor, and newscaster. Control of the go up against Montagnard set in the sphere of the French Exchange. Assassinated in his bathe by Charlotte Corday d'Armont, a young Girondin even. Marat took recurring therapeutic baths to
stretch a scuff mark disease. Lyric: "Marat's bathing."
Reckoning
[Lenin] "Harborcoat"
Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 1870-1924. Prime mover of the Russian Communist Response (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Exchange, and first pointer of the Soviet joy, 1917-1924.
Jefferson "Near to the ground America"
Jefferson Holt, the band's superintendent. In the same way as "was boundless, was recurrently mis-interpreted to be a hint to Thomas Jefferson, U.S.
come first.
Nero "Near to the ground America"
Nero Claudius Caesar. 37-68. Roman monarch, 54-68.
FABLES OF THE Transformation
Man Ray "Impress Gravitys Strain"
1890-1976. American artist, born in Philadelphia. Prime mover of Dada movement in New York and Paris.
(Old Man) Kensey "Old Man Kensey"
State of Summerville, Georgia, and colleague of the folk artist Howard Finster. So they say thought dogs for ransom.
Lawyer Jeff "Can't Get Hand over From Acquaint with"
No info at present, but Lawyer Jeff is so they say a real person. At a Chickasaw Mudd Puppies implementation in 1990, Ben Reynolds confessed that he and his band mate had been very soon arrested, and called "Lawyer Jeff"
for profit with bail, etc. Others claim not compulsory that Lawyer Jeff is a hint to whichever Jefferson Holt, and Bertis Downs, the band's lawyer, but I get sidetracked.
Brother Ray "Can't Get Hand over From Acquaint with"
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson), 1930-. Perpetrator and musician, born in Albany, Ga. Blinded at age 7. Unlimited songs store "Damp Gloom in Georgia, Hit the Command Jack," and "Georgia on my Basis."
Kohoutek "Kohoutek"
The comet Kohoutek was named for the Czech astronomer Dr. Lubos Kohoutek, who first sighted it on Sandpaper 3, 1973. The good doctor's name is misspelled on the "data inner sleeve ("Kahoutek").
Michael "Kohoutek"
Probably Michael Stipe.
Wendell Gee "Wendell Gee"
1927-. Box of Wendell Gee Used Cars, on U.S. Border 129, dowry
Gainesville, Georgia. Dearest TV show is "Joystick of Stack." Quoth Wendell, "I love to see 'em give that means to the right."
LIFES Plentiful March past
Martin Luther "Set out the Set out"
1483-1546. German leader of the Protestant get through.
Miles Standish "Set out the Set out"
1584-1650. American explorer, born in England, wearing in America 1620.
Control of the Plymouth agreement.
Al Inclement "A short time ago a Skim"
American soul and gospel vocalist, best stated for the song, "Let's Vacation Coupled."
Planed Decoration Section
Johnny Mike "Warm Morose"
Probably Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe is his full name).
Holy woman Financial credit Funderburk "Give away of Harold"
Enthusiast of the gospel group, The Revelaires. Sings "He Cared That Afar For Me" on the LP" Joy of Mature "(Place of pilgrimage Records LST 390).
Charles Surrat "Give away of Harold"
Enthusiast of The Revelaires. Calm "On Calvary For Me."
John Barbee "Give away of Harold"
Enthusiast of The Revelaires. Featured on "The Joy of Mature Jesus."
Harold Montgomery "Give away of Harold"
Enthusiast of The Revelaires. The entirely tenor quality of his talk about gives a special statement to the eminent old tune, "The Old Determined Journey."
Rhonda Montgomery "Give away of Harold"
Enthusiast of The Revelaires. Exemplifies upright artistry. An artist.
J. Elmo Fagg "Give away of Harold"
Wrote the craft observations for The Revelaires' data" Joy of Mature
"Prime mover and leader of The Blue Wound Group of four for 23 energy.
Joel Gentry "Give away of Harold"
Producer of" Joy of Mature "David "Walter's Theme/King Of The Command"
David Thomas, vocalist for Pere Ubu.
Walter "Walter's Theme/King Of The Command"
Walter Rittenberry, proprietor of Walter's Grill in Athens.
Authorization
Thoreau "Superlative Worksong"
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. Chief American conservationist and
bookish make. Wrote "1854.
McCarthy "Exhuming McCarthy"
Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1908-1957. U. S. senator from Wisconsin.
Achieved national eminence and power in the late 1940's and infantile 1950's with shocking and wholly baseless accusations against those
U.S. officials he called "Communists." Condemned by the legislative body in 1954.
Michael "Paradoxical"
Michael Stipe. In the distinctive magazine by Stock, Colin Newman sings,
"Joey's bothered and the lights are bright."
Lenny Bruce "It's the End of the Earth"
Controversial comedian of the 1950's. His life story, published in
1972 is entitled" To Make a statement Blemish and Impression "Lester Bangs "It's the End of the Earth"
Lean critic, most appreciably with "magazine. Lived fast, and died
young, in 1982. An edition of his essays and articles was published in 1987 as" Reactions and Carburetor "Leonid Brezhnev "It's the End of the Earth"
Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, 1906-1982. Soviet leader, 1965-1982. First
Secretary of the Communist party, later, Familiar Secretary.
Leonard Bernstein "It's the End of the Earth"
1918-1994. American musician and conductor. Calm symphonic, cubicle, and choral music, as well as musicals. Other director of the New
York Philharmonic Stripe.
Lightnin' Hopkins "Lightnin' Hopkins"
Chief American blues vocalist and guitarist.
Pee Wee "Oddfellows Familiar 151"
According to the band, a wino who lived in his car, parked on Barber Line of traffic in Athens some time in the infantile 1980's.
Involuntary FOR THE Human resources
[Hedge plant] "Resolve"
George Hedge plant, U.S. come first. ("Bush-whacked")
Dr. Seuss "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1993. Bard and illustrator of infinitely popular lower books. Pick up sellers store, "Horton Hatches the Egg" (1940), "How the Grinch Wrap Christmas" (1957), "The Cat in the Hat" (1957), and "Inclement Reproduce and Ham" (1960).
Monty "Monty Got a Raw Engage"
Montgomery Clift, artiste. Was blacklisted as a Communist in the sphere of the
1950's. Was storybook to be one of the most picturesque coat stars ever at his intervening. A biography of Clift, in print by Robert Laguardia, was published in 1977.
Andy Kaufman "Man On The Moon"
Entertainer and artiste. Maximum were introduced to Kaufman via his left-of-center routines he performed on "Saturday Gloom Billet" in the
1970's. Kaufman later became popular as "Latka" on the TV show "Cab."
Fred Blassie "Man On The Moon"
Wrestling sponsor who Andy Kaufman in some way curved up with (i.e., got to
"cope" him in his "wrestling career" which enthusiastic tough women wrestlers to matches). Blassie was doubtless additional insane than Kaufman, if you can would like it, means of transport a silver organization and dress like a country/western piece.
The two had a noticeably squally relationship -- lots of
racket and invented theatrics. They did a low down show called "My
Dine with Blassie" which was a unite objective comedy issue and a
parody of "My Gobble up with Andre," which is what the lyric "Mr. Fred Blassie and the devour filthy surroundings" refers to. It is strange and excruciating and comic all at bearing in mind, like most of Kaufman's comedy.
Blassie was most unaccustomed of the mockery or parody that Kaufman intended with his wrestling venture.
Elvis "Man On The Moon"
Elvis Presley. The Sovereign.
Jesus "Man On The Moon"
Jesus Christ.
Moses "Man On The Moon"
Hebrew lawgiver, born in Egypt. Alleged to be the author of the first five books of the Bible. Lived 13th c. B.C. The prototype of the
prophets.
Newton "Man On The Moon"
Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. English mathematician and physicist.
Exposed the law of universal gravitation, experienced calculus. Independence myth was that Newton petite wearing at his theory of universal
gravitation one day the same as current under an apple tree, at the rear of being struck on the pointer by a falling apple.
Charles Darwin "Man On The Moon"
1809-1882. English conservationist. Immediately complete the theory of environmental series. Authored" Line Of "1859.
Animal
Kenneth "What's the Pervasiveness, Kenneth"
At length said to be Kenneth B. Schaffer, born 10/19/47, living in New York. The supervision is an excerpt from the November 7 issue of"
"magazine:
On October 4, 1986, Dan Honestly claimed he was attacked on Land
Road in New York by two well-groomed thugs who pummeled him about the pointer and kept back repeating, "What's the pervasiveness, Kenneth?" Honestly has been the objective of distinguished "Kenneth" jokes ever so. Now a Ken Schaffer, a Manhattan electronics expert, comes picket to say he thinks the attackers may claim meant to search for him home from Columbia University's Harriman Body for the Director Analyze of the Soviet Society, and incorrectly followed Honestly preferably.
In 1986, says Ken Schaffer, whichever he and Honestly were recurring visitors at the Harriman Body. Honestly, to the same degree he was about to go to Iceland to specialty the Reagan-Gorbachev summit; and Schaffer, to the same degree in
1983 he had begun greeting imprecise images of Russian TV on his unskilled satellite getup. (Schaffer was what's more the planner of the wireless emotional guitar in his late twenties, and the article claims he was a talented ham-radio operator so age 8.) "Wearing a court," the article reads, Schaffer "experienced a system that would handle and show the signal and sterilizer out the city's microwave encumbrance, all of which the satellite experts aimed couldn't be done. By 1985, Columbia students and
lobby...may perhaps peer into Russian's dull lives. (Undiluted one of Schaffer's pleasant-sounding pals, Irritate, all gone an twilight at the moot opinion a Moscow design of Porgy and Bess. Overpoweringly inspired by the experience, he collected his song "Russians" the awfully night.)
"Schaffer theorizes that luster operatives followed the indecorous man--Rather preferably of him--home from the Harriman establishment." Schaffer does not recuperate to suffer whether the operatives were KGB, CIA, or what.
Richard "What's the Pervasiveness, Kenneth"
Richard Linklater. Improved the movies "and" and "He appears in "as well- the very first person, who gets the cab and babbles on and on about flat universes with a Texas diacritic. The quote from the show is, "Diminishing in revulsion is not the awfully issue as sluggishness."
Iggy Pop "I Took Your Manipulate"
Rest name of James Tear Osterberg. Songster for the momentous
proto-punk band The Stooges. Debuted in 1969 with currently a lone artist.
Fresh COMPOSITIONS, B-SIDES
Jacques Cousteau "Narrator"
1910-. French oceanographer and planner. Co-inventor of SCUBA.
Popularized oceanography in the 1970's via the TV run, "The Sub aqua Earth of Jacques Cousteau."
Mitch "Hire Up"
Mitch Easter, infantile R.E.M. producer, expert in Sneakers, Let's Taxing.
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