R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. The group achieved a mainstream hit with the 1987 single \”The One I Love\”. The group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide. The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects.

About R.E.M. in brief

Summary R.E.M. R. E. M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects after having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the world’s best-selling music artists. In 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and reunited with Berry for the ceremony and to record a cover of John Lennon’s “I Dreamed A Dream” for the compilation album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. R.E.M. was noted for Buck’s ringing, arpeggiated guitar style; Stipe’s distinctive vocal quality, unique stage presence, and obscure lyrics; Mills’s melodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry’s tight, economical drumming style. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts such as Nirvana and Pavement viewed R. E M. as a pioneer of the genre. After Berry left the band in 1997,. the band continued its career in the 2000s with mixed critical and commercial success. The group achieved a mainstream hit with the 1987 single \”The One I Love\”. The group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide. They also started co-producing their material and playing other instruments in the studio apart from the main ones they play.

In 2009, the group collaborated with co-producer Jacknife Lee on their last two albums. The resulting record, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, is hailed as the band’s last great album and the members’ favorite, growing in cult status over the years. They parted ways with their longtime manager Jefferson Holt and band’s attorney Bertis Downs assumed managerial duties. After their two albums of Up Up and Up, their last album Reveal was referred to as ‘a return to their classic sound’ and received general acclaim for a change of sound after lukewarm reception for the Sun Around the Sun. In 2011, R.e.M.’s last album, Out of Time, received seven nominations at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, and the lead single \”Losing My Religion\”, was R. e.m.’s highest-charting and best- selling hit. In 1996, they re-signed for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract ever. They began their first tour in six years to support the album; the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three of the band members. In 2012, the. band recorded the following album mostly during soundchecks and the band began its first tour of the following year. Thereafter, they settled on Scott Litt as producer for the next 10 years during the band’s most successful period of their career.