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R.E.M.’s Original Lineup Performs Publicly for the First Time in Nearly Three Decades at Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony

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The four founding members of R.E.M. performed together publicly for the first time in nearly three decades at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony in New York on Thursday night, playing an acoustic version of their breakthrough song, 1991’s “Losing My Religion.”

With characteristic understatement, the group — singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry — showed their respect for the honor and the institution, their friendship and decades-long bond, and in gracious terms, fans, family, friends, and everyone who helped them along the way.

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Although the four members performed together in 2016 at a private event for longtime manager Bertis Downs, their last major concert took place in 1995, concluding a problem-plagued tour that ultimately led to Berry’s departure two years later. The remaining three members last performed in 2008 and amicably split in 2011.

The group’s fellow 2024 inductees were Steely Dan, producer Timbaland, and songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Dean Pitchford and the late Cindy Walker.

Following the format of the show — which sees one of the songwriter’s hits played by an influencee, followed by the induction and then the honoree’s performance — Jason Isbell started R.E.M.’s segment by playing the group’s polysyllabic 1987 hit, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine).”

“I never sang so many syllables so fast in my life,” Isbell joked, recalling memorizing the song’s tongue-twisting lyrics as a kid — and how he’d thought that feat would never be useful.

“I heard their songs on the radio all time, and it’s safe to say thousands of outcast kids in the South had that same experience.”

After fans, families and several dozen music executives by name, Stipe concluded with a heartfelt tribute to the band’s longtime manager, Bertis Downs: “for allowing us the space to create, to follow our gut, to follow our instincts, to disappear into the music, to not have to be concerned with aspects of the industry that would have or could have prevented us from focusing on the most important part: the songwriting and the songs. And for that gift, Bertis we are forever grateful.” 

The band then walked over to the performance area. “We’re R.E.M., and this is what we did,” Stipe said and the bandmembers — Stipe with guitarist Peter Buck on mandolin, bassist Mike Mills playing 12-string acoustic guitar and singing harmony, and drummer Bill Berry, who left the band in 1997, on percussion.

Their appearance was brief, but no one was disappointed.

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The group surprised audiences with an acoustic performance of 'Losing My Religion'

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Last night (June 13), the band were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, shortly after their first interview as a group in 30 years aired on CBS .

After accepting their induction at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, the band pulled out acoustic instruments and treated those in attendance to a surprise performance of ‘Losing My Religion’.

Watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.

Per Billboard , Michael Stipe said on behalf of the band upon their induction: “Writing songs and having a catalog of work that we’re all proud of that is out there for the rest of the world for all time is hands-down the most important aspect of what we did. Second to that is that we managed to do so all those decades and remain friends. And not just friends, dear friends.”

The performance marks the first time the band have performed together publicly since 2009. Prior to their surprise performance and induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the band spoke of a potential reunion with CBS , joking it would have to take a “comet” for them to perform together again .

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In February, R.E.M. surprised fans by reuniting during a tribute gig celebrating their classic debut album ‘Murmur’ in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, though they did not perform.

R.E.M. broke up in 2011 after 31 years together . Bill Berry had previously departed the band in 1997, with Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills continuing as a trio. The drummer reunited with the group a handful of times in the ’00s, including a performance at the Georgia Theatre in Athens in 2006 .

Last December,  Mills revealed that there are “plenty of vault songs” yet to be released from R.E.M.’s catalogue . In 2022, however,  Buck reaffirmed the band’s split was permanent after  Stipe confirmed the previous year that they would “never reunite” .

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“We put a good spin on it publicly but the truth is Bill almost died”: Michael Stipe on how R.E.M. narrowly averted tragedy on the Monster tour

Drummer Bill Berry suffered a ruptured aneurysm onstage in Switzerland

The biggest tour that R.E.M. had ever embarked on, taking in arenas and stadiums round the globe, was in full flow by March 1995 when the Athens, Georgia quartet rocked up in Switzerland to headline Lausanne megadome Patinoire de Malley. But the Monster jaunt was about to brought to an abrupt halt – midway through the show, drummer and co-founder Bill Berry collapsed. The next day, he was diagnosed with a ruptured brain aneurysm. Speaking to this writer back in 2021, frontman Michael Stipe looked back on one of the most harrowing period in the alt-rock titans’ history.

“We put a good spin on it publicly but the truth is Bill almost died and he almost died more than once,” Stipe recalled. “It was absolutely terrifying. It was truly horrific. We were in the middle of a tour so we were all insanely adrenalized and the tour came to a screeching halt. We were determined to stay there by his side until he was well enough to leave the hospital and walk and talk on his own. He came through - it's truly miraculous. He also happened to have an aneurysm less than five kilometres from the best hospital in the world to have surgery for aneurysms, he was very, very lucky.”

With Berry on the mend, the band all stayed together as he recuperated and they decided their next move. “Bill just wanted to get to the point where he could perform again,” remembered Stipe. “We were, of course, supportive of that but a bit terrified because it was really drastic brain surgery that he had and you know, he looked like the Elephant Man for a while. I mean, it was really very serious surgery. The tour was a nice kind of thing to hold up, as part of his physical therapy and mental therapy, as something that creates a deadline. The doctors approved of him playing drums again and going back on tour and we gave it the necessary amount of time that it needed.”

R.E.M. were back on the road just over two months later, restarting with a headline show at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in the San Francisco Bay Area. “At the end of the show, Bill walked up out from behind the drum kit and we all hugged each other on stage,” Stipe recounted. “I think I burst into tears and cried like a baby, so relieved he made it through an entire show and he was absolutely fine. He was going to be okay.”

That tour would be a last hurrah for Berry, who left R.E.M. after the band had completed work on their next record, 1996’s New Adventures In Hi-Fi . It marked the end of an era for a group who helped to usher alternative-rock into the mainstream.

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R.E.M. reunites for the first time in 15 years, performs 'Losing My Religion'

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The four original members of R.E.M. — Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry and Peter Bucks — reunited and performed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. L. Busacca/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall of Fame hide caption

On Thursday morning, Mike Mills told CBS Mornings that it would take "a comet" for R.E.M. to get back together. But on Thursday night, R.E.M. got back together to perform "Losing My Religion," the band's unexpected 1991 hit from Out of Time , at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where the band was being honored. The band had been secretly planning the reunion when the morning television program visited R.E.M.'s Athens rehearsal space in February.

It's been 15 years since R.E.M. performed live, and 13 since the band broke up.

"The thing that makes a band a band is the chemistry that occurs between the three or four people when they're standing on stage," Mills told All Things Considered in 2011. "The one thing I really will miss is that energy that happens when Peter and Michael and I start to make noise together. You can't replace that. You can only be grateful that you had it, and move on and find something else that makes you happy and excited."

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Members of the Athens rock band have kept busy. Michael Stipe has released two books of photography and, just this year, announced a long-gestating solo album . Mills, along with Peter Buck, plays in the The Baseball Project . Buck remains prolific as a solo artist, in The Minus 5 and in collaboration with Joseph Arthur . Bill Berry, who left the band in 1997 after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm two years earlier, has mostly stayed in Athens with sporadic musical activity.

"There's no drummer like Bill Berry on Earth. None," Buck told the Netflix version of Song Exploder in an episode on "Losing My Religion." "I have a lot of drummer friends, and they all ask me the same thing: 'What's his secret?' And I can't tell you, because I don't know. My theory is that he uses the space between the high hat and the snare drum in a kind of disco-y way, without being too disco."

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At the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the band strips "Losing My Religion" to its core elements: Buck on mandolin, Mills on 12-string acoustic guitar and Berry on congas and shaker. Stipe's voice, which has grown a shade deeper now 33 years since the song debuted, mingles with the murmurs of a shocked audience singing along in a fan-recorded video.

R.E.M. also reunited, sort of, in February, at the 40 Watt in Athens, Ga., during Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy's R.E.M. tribute tour when the actor and musician were performing Murmur in its entirety. The four original members joined them onstage for a few songs .

But R.E.M. insists there won't be another reunion. Stipe says, "We had our day in the sun."

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Original R.E.M. Lineup Appears Onstage Together for the First Time in 17 Years

R.E.M. fans were in for a surprise as singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry all appeared onstage together Thursday night (Feb. 8) for the first time since their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2007, though they did not perform.

What brought them all together? The band members were attending a concert featuring actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy, who have been touring while playing R.E.M.'s Murmur album on a nightly basis.

While the full four R.E.M. members chose not to play together, their presence onstage at the end of the show served as a stamp of approval for Shannon and Narducy's touring tribute.

"Speaking on behalf of Bill and Mike and Peter, we are so fucking thrilled to be here tonight," said singer Michael Stipe to the audience in footage from Scene SC that can be seen below.

The Thursday performance took place at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, where R.E.M. got their start as a band. That made the homecoming all the sweeter for fans in attendance.

Per fan accounts, it appears as though Berry, Mills and Buck joined Shannon and Narducy at different times during the band's set, but Stipe did not perform, only joining his bandmates with Shannon and Narducy's band onstage at the end of the evening.

This was not the first time that an R.E.M. member has shown up during the tour, with Mike Mills previously joining Shannon and Narducy during a Chicago show last year.

The current Shannon / Narducy tour  celebrating Murmur continues through Feb. 14 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York.

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R.E.M. Original Lineup History

R.E.M. originally formed in 1980 in Athens, Georgia. The core four of the lineup remained intact through 1997, when drummer Bill Berry left the band. The drummer had previously suffered a brain aneurysm while onstage in Switzerland in March 1995.

The band continued as a trio, utilizing touring and session musicians in Berry's absence for the remainder of their career.

On Sept. 21, 2011, the band announced that they were "calling it a day as a band."

The original four members recorded 10 albums together, with 1996's New Adventures in Hi-Fi being Berry's last record with the band. After Berry's exit, the group recorded five more albums.

As previously stated, Berry joined his bandmates in 2007 onstage for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since that time, it's been rare that all four members have been seen together in public. They all did appear at the 40 Watt Club in 2022 for an all-star tribute to the band's Chronic Town EP, but during the show only Buck and Mills were seen onstage.

Upon announcing their retirement, R.E.M. have been one of the few acts that actually held true to the declaration. They have not returned to the stage as a four-piece (with then drummer Bill Rieflen) to perform since a 2009 appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall . The trio of Stipe, Mills and Buck did play an impromptu performance of "Losing My Religion" in France in 2016 to celebrate the birthday of their manager Bertis Downs.

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Last night, July 17, The Rolling Stones blew through Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. with the penultimate program in its Hackney Diamonds world tour. For this second-to-last date in the sprawling, memorable series that bridged the band’s countless iconic eras in a global celebration of its legacy, the Stones honored the occasion with a tour debut performance of the classic “Far Away Eyes.”

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The Stones’ long-awaited dust-off fit perfectly into its finely honed, hit-studded setlist, which opened with its traditional intro-sequence of “Start Me up,” “Get Off of My Cloud,” “Tumbling Dice” and “Angry.” After “Far Away Eyes,” the band launched its second 2024 treatment of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” then reached a fiery, high-voltage peak with the live debut of the Hackney Diamonds offering “Bite My Head Off.”

The show proceeded according to plan from there, complete with the nightly Keith Richards-led midsection of “You Got the Silver,” “Little T&A” and “Before They Make Me Run,” plus more iconic fan-favorites through the close like “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Midnight Rambler,” “Gimme Shelter” and the closer “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” After the outro, the band sent its adoring fans off into the night with the anthemic encore of “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

The Rolling Stones conclude the Hackney Diamonds tour on Sunday, July 21, with a final performance at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale, Mo. For tickets and more information, visit rollingstones.com/tour/ .

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Set: Start Me Up, Get Off of My Cloud, Tumbling Dice, Angry, Far Away Eyes+, Like a Rolling Stone, Bite My Head Off*, Mess It Up, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, You Got the Silver, Little T&A, Before They Make Me Run, Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Women, Midnight Rambler, Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black, Jumpin’ Jack Flash Encore: Sweet Sounds of Heaven, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Notes: + Bust-out of “Far Away Eyes,” last played on October 21, 202; fan-voted inclusion, with Ronnie Wood on pedal steel * Live debut of “Bite My Head Off”

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Later, they shot the sitcoms " Empty Nest " and " Golden Girls " here, as well as the popular fantasy drama " Beauty & the Beast " (the subterranean caverns where 'Vicent' lived were sets at this studio).

The first four episodes of " Seinfeld " were filmed at Ren-Mar, before they moved the production to CBS Studio center . And episodes of " Monk " were also shot at this studio.

They shot scenes from some classic movies here as well, from 1931's " The Champ " (with Wallace Beery ) to 1952's " High Noon " (with Gary Cooper ). And the Toontown trolley scenes from Disney's " Who Shot Roger Rabbit? " were filmed in front of the studio.

Disney filmed the TV series " Lizzie McGuire " (with Hilary Duff ) here.

Unlike the big studios (such as Warner Bros. or Disney) Ren-Mar doesn't produce films under its own banner; Ren-Mar is a rental studio, leasing out their lot and sound stages to other studios, indie filmmakers, TV shows, commercials and even video games.

They don't offer a tour, but they do tape an occasional sit-com here (past ones included " NewsRadio "), so contact Audiences Unlimited to see if anything's taping there right now. If it is, you may be able to get free tickets to the taping, and you can visit the studio long enough to watch the show being made.

Update :  In 2010, Rem-Mar Studios was bought by RED Digital Cinema Camera Company, which makes one of the most popular brands of professional digital movie cameras used in Hollywood. They have renamed it " RED Studios ".  For the moment, it seems unclear exactly what they plan to do with the studio, although they currently offer a "Camp Red", in which young people (9 to 16) can work with RED cameras under studio conditions.  According to their website , " True Blood " and " Weeds " have filmed there recently, so it looks like they are going to keep it as a working studio.  Time will tell...

[You can access the studio's official website at http://www.renmarstudios.com .]

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