Spend The Night With R.E.M.!

Spend The Mght With R.E.M.!

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This could be one of life’s rich pageants, all right. And if you happen to be an .R.E.M fan, it could be a virtual dream come true!

That’s right! A lucky CREEM reader and a friend will actually be spending a night with R.E.M., and all you have to do to win this incredible contest is let your creative juices run wild!

Here’s the details of what you gotta do: Go to your nearest record store (no purchase is necessary) and pick up a copy of R.E.M.’s delicious new Lifes Rich Pageant LP. On the right-hand side of the back cover, there’s a list of 10 lyrical snippets from the record. It reads like a Joe Fernbacher record review, but, believe us, they’re actual lyrics that Michael Stipe sings on the album! Stuff like ‘‘I Found It. Miles Standish Proud” and “What Noisy Cats Are We.” Got it? OK, what we want you to do is take at least three of these phrases (more if you like) and work them into an original one-page story or essay which makes sense (or doesn’t make sense—what’s the difference, so long as it’s good?). Stories will be judged on the originality of creative effort, and the grand prize winner, plus a loved one (or a hated one, we don’t care), will be jetted off to spend their dream night with Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Mills and Berry. Let’s explain what we mean by this...

I.R.S. Records, in association with CREEM Magazine, will fly the couple off to Atlanta, Georgia on Thanksgiving eve (Nov. 26th) to attend the final show of R.E.M.’s “Pageant” tour at Atlanta’s illustrious Fox Theater. And not only will the lucky pair have choice seats for the concert, they’ll be special guests at R.E.M.’s after-show bash which, being the last night of the tour and all, promises to be a super blow-out\ And not only that, but the winner will have his or her story published in CREEM, which may actually lead them into rock journalism and a life of glamour, poverty and brain damage! What more could you ask for? It’s going to be V.I.P. treatment all the way around!

And for those who don’t manage to finagle a dream night with R.E.M., I.R.S. is offering something almost as good for second and third prize winners: “R.E.M Special Rarities Packages,” whichwill consist of a whole catalogue of R.E.M compact discs, unreleased “promotional only” R.E.M. 12-inch singles, a Hindu Love Gods (Buck, Mills & Berry with Warren Zevon) single, T-shirts and what-not. In addition, three “R.E.M Special Rarities Packages” (minus the CD’s) will be awarded to three names picked at random from all the entries—which means your story doesn’t even have to be all that good (Heee!).

So get to work! All entries must be postmarked no later than October 1st, and the absolute cut-off date for receiving entries is October 7th. So put on them thinking caps! Write us a humdinger, and maybe we’ll even be getting together for shrimp creole soon. Hot dog!

Please enclose this coupon attached to your story, as three names will be picked at random for the “R.E.M. Special Rarities” package. All entries must be postmarked no later than Oct. 1,1986, and reach our offices by Oct. 7, 1986.

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Mall to: R.E.M. "Pageant Contest,” P.O. Box P-1064, Birmingham, Ml 48010. Employees of Cambray Publishing, Inc. and I.R.S. Records or their agencies and families are not eligible to enter the contest.