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| REM were promoting
their new album Reveal |
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| Thousands turned out
onto the streets of Toronto as REM performed their only
scheduled North American gig. |
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| Around 20,000 fans
converged on the Canadian city for the free lunchtime gig which
took place in the longest street in the world. |
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| After the first song,
lead singer Michael Stipe announced to the crowd that they
should no longer call him by his birth name. |
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| He said: "From
now on, I wish to be known as Mochael Stope." |
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| Music-lovers shrugged
off the latest madcap caper of the baldy frontman. |
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Fruity |
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The Grammy Award-winner then threw fruit into the crowd,
injuring a pregnant woman with a sharpened goosebury.
"I's are Evil. Long Live the O", he chanted
continuously instead of keeping to their normal
indistinguishable lyrics. |
Have a banana why don't
you
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| Just before leaving
the stage he commented, "Infact, change all my letters to
O. Everyone call me Ooooooo Ooooo, okay? O." |