In 2024, during their first interview as a foursome in 27 years, the band was asked what it would take for them to re-form. “A comet”, replied Mills. “Superglue”, added Berry. When asked why it would not happen, Buck stated, “It would never be as good.”
In September 2021, a decade after disbanding, Stipe reiterated that R.E.M. had no intention of regrouping: “We decided when we split up that that would just be really tacky and probably money-grabbing, which might be the impetus for a lot of bands to get back together.” In 2023, R.E.M. was…
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In October 2019, during the presentation of his book of photographs in Rome, Stipe said: “I’m having dinner with Mike (Mills) just tomorrow night in London and I spoke to Peter (Buck) last night, we’re good friends but R.E.M.’s time it’s over, that’s it”.
In March 2016, R.E.M. signed a publishing administration deal with Universal Music Publishing Group . In March 2017, R.E.M. left Broadcast Music, Inc. , who had represented their performance rights for their entire career, and joined SESAC . The first release under SESAC was the 2018 box set R.E.M. at…
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In 2014, Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions was released for Record Store Day . Download collections of I.R.S. and Warner Bros. rarities followed. Later in the year, R.E.M. compiled the video album box set REMTV , which collected their two Unplugged performances along with several other documentaries and…
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On September 21, 2011, R.E.M. announced via its website that it was “calling it a day as a band”. Stipe said that he hoped fans realized it “wasn’t an easy decision”: “All things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.” Long-time associate and…
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In 2010, R.E.M. released the video album R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX —a concert recorded for Austin City Limits in 2008. The group recorded its fifteenth album, Collapse into Now (2011), with Jacknife Lee in locales including Berlin, Nashville, and New Orleans. For the album, the band aimed for a…
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Work on the group’s fourteenth album commenced in early 2007. The band recorded with producer Jacknife Lee in Vancouver and Dublin, where it played five nights in the Olympia Theatre between June 30 and July 5 as part of a “working rehearsal”. R.E.M. Live , the band’s first live album…
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In October 2006, R.E.M. was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. The band was one of five nominees accepted into the Hall that year, and the induction ceremony took place in March 2007 at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel .…
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EMI released a compilation album covering R.E.M.’s work during its tenure on I.R.S. in 2006 called And I Feel Fine… The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 along with the video album When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 —the label had previously released the…
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