![]() ![]() R.E.M.’s most recent studio album, Around The Sun, was trailed by a majestic hit single, “Leaving New York,” but overall Buck, Mills, and Stipe were unhappy with the record’s contents. However, even as their Hall Of Fame triumph acknowledged the Athens, Georgia, outfit’s remarkable canon of music, the band were beginning to question their continued relevance. The ceremony offered Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills the opportunity to reunite with Bill Berry and – just for the one night – R.E.M.’s original iteration performed suitably charged versions of “Gardening At Night,” “Man On The Moon” and “Begin The Begin,” along with a cover of The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”Ī joyous, if slightly emotional, occasion, the event reaffirmed R.E.M.’s place at rock’n’roll’s top table – a territory they had occupied since their seventh full-length studio album, 1991’s Out Of Time went on to sell over 18 million copies worldwide. were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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