Complex sentence: As a teenager in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sweet was a big fan of Mitch Easter, who produced R.E.M. 's first single, the Hib-Tone version of "Radio Free Europe".
Split into simpler sentences: As a teenager in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sweet was a big fan of Mitch Easter. Easter produced R.E.M. 's first single, the Hib-Tone version of "Radio Free Europe".