Legends & Liner Notes

If you missed our interview last week with Todd Rundgren, you can catch the full interview on KNON's YouTube Podcast Channel.

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Tune in Monday 5/11 at 4PM to hear my conversation with Todd Rundgren!

Todd is playing at The Majestic Theatre in Dallas on Tuesday June 16th.

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Hear the full interview that I did with Graham Russel of Air Supply Music!

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Tune into today 04/06/2026 at 4PM CST to hear our full interview with Graham Russell of Air Supply Music!

If we could ask Michael Stipe about R.E.M's song, "Lotus", what would he remember most about it?

Regarding the song's music video, Stipe tells MTV UK, "I wanted to work with Stéphane (Sednaoui) for a long time. Since I saw the video that he did with Björk for, what was that called, 'Big Time Sexuality' or something? Where she looks exactly like Shirley MacLaine, 1959–1961. The Apartment, I think, was the name of the film. Shirley MacLaine and Björk as Shirley MacLaine on the back of a pick-up truck driving down 5th Avenue in New York City, probably. But I thought this guy exudes s*x, he's like s*x on a stick, and I wanted to work with him for that reason. He somehow transmogrified that very thing through me. I look very, very foxy in this video, which is why I chose it; it shows off my incredible stomach muscles."

The song's recurring line "I ate the lotus" appeared in an alternate form ("I'll eat the lotus...") in a previous R.E.M. song, "Be Mine". The line "dot dot dot and I feel fine" seem to reference R.E.M.'s 1987 hit "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".