{"id":28889,"date":"2024-02-28T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-s-michael-stipe-donates-handwritten-lyrics-to-charity-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:43","slug":"r-e-m-s-michael-stipe-donates-handwritten-lyrics-to-charity-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-s-michael-stipe-donates-handwritten-lyrics-to-charity-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M.\u2019s Michael Stipe donates handwritten lyrics to charity auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-28\/Getty_MichaelStipe_022824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Roberto Serra &#8211; Iguana Press\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> frontman <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong> has donated some handwritten lyrics to help raise money for a good cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rocker has contributed a signed lyric sheet for the track \u201cNightswimming\u201d to\u00a0the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.whytes.ie\/auctions\/1-8PUT29\/art-for-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">Art for Gaza<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> auction. The money raised is going to Doctors Without Borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The auction is set to run until March 2 at 12 p.m. ET. The initial estimate for the sale was between $1,000 and $1,200, but the current bid has already surpassed that. Bids can be placed at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.whytes.ie\/lots\/view\/1-8PUZAY\/michael-stipe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">bid.whytes.ie<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNightswimming\u201d was the fifth single off R.E.M.\u2019s eighth studio album, 1992&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Automatic for the People. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">It featured a string arrangement by <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Serra &#8211; Iguana Press\/Getty Images R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has donated some handwritten lyrics to help raise money for a good cause. The rocker has contributed a signed lyric sheet for the track \u201cNightswimming\u201d to\u00a0the Art for Gaza auction. The money raised is going to Doctors Without Borders. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-s-michael-stipe-donates-handwritten-lyrics-to-charity-auction\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}