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[7]: 39 R.E.M. is well known as an abbreviation for rapid eye movement, the dream stage of sleep; however, sleep researcher Rafael Pelayo reports that when his colleague William Dement, the sleep scientist who coined the term REM, reached out to the band, Dement was told that the band was named "not after REM sleep". [11]
He then sat behind the drum kit for a performance of the early R.E.M. song "Permanent Vacation", marking his first performance with the band since his retirement, though he still refused to rejoin the group regardless.
Original REM line-up perform together for first time in almost 30 years. ... When asked why the four of them are still able to get along so well, Buck said: “We quit at the right time. Great ...
The two became friends; they eventually decided to form a band [21] and started writing music together, [22] although at the time Stipe was also in a local group named Gangster. [23] Buck and Stipe were soon joined by Bill Berry and Mike Mills , and named themselves R.E.M., a name Stipe selected at random from a dictionary. [ 24 ]
William Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) is an American musician who was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Although best known for his economical drumming style, Berry also played other instruments, including guitar, bass guitar and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M. albums.
However, he also notes the band could "knock together a heartrending anthem out of next to nothing"; Sweeting uses "I've Been High" as an example, calling it "possibly [the album's] finest moment" and praising its simplicity. [33] In a review for The A.V. Club, Keith Phipps states that 21 years into their career, R.E.M. still "continue to ...
But luckily, Charity and her new fiancé, Dotun Olubeko, are still going strong. From Trista Rehn to Rachel Lindsay, keep reading for a complete list of Bachelorette couples who are still together. 1.
Collapse into Now is the fifteenth and final studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 7, 2011, on Warner Bros. Produced by Jacknife Lee, who previously worked with the band on Accelerate (2008), the album was preceded by the singles "It Happened Today", "Mine Smell Like Honey", "Überlin" and "Oh My Heart".