frontman Michael Stipe recalled the time he told Donald Trump to shut up during an appearance on “The Late Show” Thursday. “Because the Night” singer Patti Smith was performing in a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan in the late 1990s, Stipe told host Stephen Colbert. Stipe and a friend arrived late to the intimate venue to support Smith and were seated in a VIP overflow booth. And you have to stop talking. Earlier in the Colbert interview, Stipe discussed the band’s battle to get Trump to stop using R.E.M.’s music at rallies.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2020 12:00 UTC