R.E.M's Michael Stipe Says He Tried To Save Kurt Cobain's Life

R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe has revealed he tried to save Kurt Cobain's life.

Stipe said he told Cobain, who had problems with drug abuse, that he wanted to record a song so he could look after him.

He told Interview magazine: “I was doing that to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.”

“I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen,” Stipe added.

The singer said he ended up sending a plane ticket and a driver to Cobain, but he never took up the offer. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.

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