With the Mayan Apocalypse come and gone, there are many appropriate doomsday songs from the 80's to play. Prince's "1999" is an obvious choice, also Love & Rockets' recording of "Ball of Confusion," The Cure's "Grinding Halt," Depeche Mode's "Told You So," Time Zone's "World Destruction," . . . this list could go on forever! But what about R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)?" It's a great tune, following the form of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and Reunion's "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)." (The song later inspired Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire," but let's not hold that against R.E.M.) 

Michael Stipe said that part of the stream of consciousness lyrics for "It's The End Of The World . . . " were inspired by a dream he had that was filled with well known people with the same initials. Four such well known people are mentioned in the song, what are the names?