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R.E.M. helps clear the Snow

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Jul 5, 2011 Updated Jul 6, 2011

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has publicly thanked R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe for unblocking his writer's block.

The Glasgow-based rockers were working on their next release in an LA studio when Lightbody's muse apparently left the building “I couldn’t even write my name on a cheque" he told Q Magazine "It was that bad".

Fortunately, Stipe was on hand to rescue the hapless Lightbody and offer him some tips. “Michael just made a few suggestions here and there" Says a grateful Gary, "On a track called ‘New York’ there was a line, ‘Your face has never left me.’ He said, ‘That sounds like you’ve got a girl’s head in your bag.’ So we changed that.”

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Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish alternative rock band formed at the University of Dundee in 1994. The group comprises Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Jonny Quinn (drums), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Tom Simpson (keyboards), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Initially an indie rock band, their first three records, the EP...

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