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"A paralysed singer has recalled how REM frontman Michael Stipe flipped him out of his wheelchair for his own good. Vic Chesnutt, who covered the band&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Everybody Hurts&amp;#039; at a tribute show at Carnegie Hall last night, told the New York Post about the incident. Chesnutt said: &amp;quot;One time in the early &amp;#039;90s, Michael came over to my house. &amp;quot;He pushed right in the door, pushed me into the living room very forcefully and then flipped me over backwards in my wheelchair and said: &amp;#039;Look. I heard you&amp;#039;re doing drugs. Where are they?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;He put the fear of God into me. Not the fear of God, but the fear of Michael. So this song - I felt a special connection to it.&amp;quot; Chesnutt added that Stipe&amp;#039;s actions put an end to a &amp;quot;very destructive binge&amp;quot; that he was on. Other acts performing at &amp;#039;The Music of REM at Carnegie Hall&amp;#039; show included Calexico playing &amp;#039;Wendell Gee&amp;#039; and Kimya Dawson with Matty Pop Chart singing &amp;#039;World Leader Pretend&amp;#039;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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