Oh-OK project ended

Linda Hopper—a native of Marietta, Georgia —was a member of the late 1970s/early 1980s music scene in Athens, Georgia , where she befriended fellow University of Georgia student Michael Stipe in an art design class. Stipe went on to form R.E.M. and Hopper joined him in the experimental music group Tanzplagen along with Stipe’s sister, Lynda , and other local musicians. After the group folded, Lynda Stipe and Hopper formed Oh-OK , whose line-up later included Matthew Sweet and David McNair. That project ended in 1984 and Hopper briefly belonged to a Washington, D.C. band named Holiday, who released their only EP in 1987.