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While their tour bus is broken down in Elk's Bow, Wyoming, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. write the song Swan Swan H.Full article:
Peter Buck (guitarist, R.E.M.) : Our bus broke down in Elk’s Bow, Wyoming, and we were there from, like, three in the morning to six in the evening. We wrote a bunch of stuff, but Swan Swan was the only one that actually survived. We were probably sitting around drinking all day and the things we wrote later at night disappeared, but we started playing Swan Swan almost immediately.
Michael Stipe (vocalist, R.E.M.) : This is a song about a war our country inflicted on itself a number of decades ago. It’s about a period of our American history that was very, very ugly.
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Michael Stipe (vocalist, R.E.M.) : This is a song about a war our country inflicted on itself a number of decades ago. It’s about a period of our American history that was very, very ugly.
(Source : not known)