Michael Stipe feared R.E.M.'s “Disappear” was a Radiohead song

Michael Stipe tells the Palm Beach Post that days after writing R.E.M.'s “Disappear” he realised it resembled Radiohead's “How to Disappear Completely”. He left Thom Yorke a message.

Thom, I think I stole your song.

Michael Stipe¹

Yorke did not call back for a few weeks, which upset Stipe. When he did, he told him the song had come out of a conversation the two of them had had four years before. Stipe says he no longer feels so bad.