Michael Stipe

During Rem , the recording of their ninth album, Monster, in 1994, Michael Stipe , were received a phone call, he would fear: Kurt Cobain was dead.

The couple had near - Stipe godfather of Cobain daughter Frances Bean was - and the message hit him hard.

He poured out his Angst in a song, Let Me In, one of The Most harrowing and painful moments in the Rem catalog.

As a Monster 25 turns, Rem have remixed The Song , which calls for a stick, an "Elegy and a Eulogy",

in an interview with the BBC, The Star , said The Song was written in one night and recorded the next day with the guitarist Mike Mills Cobain sonic blue Fender plays, which was presented to The Band by The Star 's widow Courtney Love .

"It was a devastating, catastrophic time for us, for all of us," Stipe said.

"But The Song and the way it was recorded, to respond accurately to this moment, and how it feels, had someone Close to us, and we admire, as much as we admired, Kurt, his own life.

"It was terrible. "

The original mix of Let Me In was instinctively angry, with Mills' thrashing guitar lines, the detection of the intensity of the feeling in the studio. The new version brings Stipe's vocals to the front (and deletes his organ line) shows the sad nuances of his performance, including a wordless fistula had a voice, were buried in the original mix.

It is almost entirely of The Song , the kind of mirrors how it In Concert is always quieter and acoustically over The Years . Stipe said the changes "absolutely" reflects the stages of his grief work.

The video was created by animator Nir Ben Jacob, picking Stipe texts from a turbulent hurricane-typography. The Singer called the clip "beautiful" and "stunning" and added: "It feels like Kurt, I must say. "

The revised version of The Song released 25th anniversary edition of the monsters next month.

Stipe became friends with Nirvana front man in the early 1990s, as a mentor and sparring partner as Nirvana, a similar (if accelerated) career trajectory to Rem followed, while maintaining their indie edge, while the creation of a polished, cross-over rock Music to a major label.

Cobain striking Rem praised in The Press , "I know we're gonna get another record, at least, and I have a pretty good idea what it might sound like: pretty ethereal, acoustic, like an Automatic For The people.

"If I could write only a few songs as good as what you have written... I don't know how The Band does what they do. God, you are The Greatest . They have dealt with their success like saints, and you continue to deliver great Music . "

In the months up to Cobain's death, Stipe reaches to the stars, in the hope that with him in a new musical venture.

"I have a project in front of him, and drag him out of the headspace he was in," he told the BBC. "I knew that he admired me and Rem a lot, and I came up with an idea for a project.

"I wrote him a letter, I sent him a plane ticket, I sent a car to his house to pick him up and bring him to The Airport . We have everything that we could to try to pull you found him from the mental state he's in, but the level of anxiety was untouchable. "

Talk about the world Mental Health day, Stipe said: "the understanding of Mental Health as a disease death, has progressed immensely," in the 25 years since Cobain's.

"We are in a better Position than we were 25 years ago in relation to Mental Health and to understand it. But there are still a lot of work to be done to help people who are in one of these positions, or in a position of great depression. "

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