R.E.M.

Mills, Berry, Buck, and Stipe, decided to drop out of college and focus on their band, now named R.E.M. The alternative rock band quickly developed a following and were soon signed to I.R.S. Records. They are all from Georgia, America.



Members

 

Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe

Mike Mills: He is the chief composer behind many of R.E.M.'s songs. He is a multi-instrumentalist.

Peter Buck: He is the guitarist and co-founder of the band.

Michael Stipe: He is the lead singer and the lyricist.

Past member

Bill Berry: He was the drummer of the band until 1997. But he left the band and became a farmer.


Beginning 

Stipe met Buck in 1980. The two became friends and decided to form a band. They started writing music together. The pair were soon joined by Berry and Mills and named themselves R.E.M., a name Stipe selected at random from a dictionary.

First Song

R.E.M. released its first single, "Radio Free Europe", in 1981.

Popular songs

Discography

The discography of R.E.M. consists of fourteen studio albums, two live albums, nine compilation albums, one extended play and sixty-four singles.

Studio albums:

• Murmur (1983)
• Reckoning (1984)
• Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
• Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
• Document (1987)
• Green (1988)
• Out of Time (1991)
• Automatic for the People (1992)
• Monster (1994)
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
• Up (1998)
• Reveal (2001)
• Around the Sun (2004)
• Accelerate (2008)
• Collapse into Now (scheduled for release in 2011) 

The band has sold more than 50 million albums and is amongst best selling artists of all time.


By Nadine and Corina