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Feb 9, 2024 · Inside R.E.M.’s Surprise Appearance At Athens, Ga. Tribute Show. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry made their first appearance together in 17 years at Michael Shannon...
Mike Mills. Michael Stipe. Website. remhq .com. R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.
Sep 22, 2017 · Mills was born and raised in Macon, Georgia, 90 miles south of Athens. “Piano was my first instrument,” he says. “I’d first taken lessons when I was 14, and then about a year later I started to teach myself bass.” By age 16 he was in a band with future R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry. “Bill and I were really solid,” Mills says.
Athens Andover is a collaborative album between the Troggs and what was then three-quarters of R.E.M. Released in March 1992, the name of the album is derived from the hometowns of the two bands: Andover, Hampshire, in England, and Athens, Georgia, in the United States.
- The Early Years
- Rise to Fame
- The Mature Work
In 1979 Michael Stipe, an art student at the University of Georgia (UGA), befriended Peter Buck, an Emory University dropout who worked at the Wuxtry record store in Athens. At a party the pair met Mike Mills and Bill Berry, friends from Macon who were also students at UGA. Around March 1980 the four formed R.E.M. and began rehearsing in an abandon...
After fulfilling its contract with I.R.S., R.E.M. signed a five-record contract with Warner Brothers for $10 million, a hefty sum for a band identified with the college rock movement. R.E.M.’s first album for Warner Brothers was Green (1988), which the band members called their most positive work thus far. The album garnered ecstatic reviews, with ...
Considered by some to be the band’s strongest work, the elegiac Automatic for the People was released in 1992—the title taken from the slogan of Athens soul-food restaurant Weaver D’s. This powerfully evocative album, hailed as a masterpiece by critics, had string arrangements by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame and contained the hit single “Ev...
Apr 5, 2017 · One of the oldest structures in Athens, Ga., the church had later been turned into a space where the city's local artists hung out. Michael Stipe and Peter Buck , who'd met as students at the ...
Nov 16, 2011 · They were four guys out of Athens, Ga., with a three-letter name — and one hell of an impact on rock. R.E.M. was Michael Stipe singing lead, Mike Mills on bass and harmonies, Peter Buck on...
