Why did R.E.M. break up?

R.E.M. was an American rock group from Athens, Georgia, founded in 1980 by University of Georgia students Bill Berry on drums, Peter Buck on guitar, Mike Mills on bass, and Michael Stipe on lead vocals. R.E.M. was one of the first alternative rock bands, and they were known for their ringing, arpeggiated guitars played by Buck, their distinctive vocals, distinctive stage presence, and cryptic lyrics sung by Stipe, their melodic bass lines and backing vocals provided by Mills, and their tight, efficient drumming played by Berry. R.E.M. was considered a pioneer of alternative rock in the early 1990s by groups like Nirvana and Pavement. Berry quit the band in 1997, and the group’s career continued into the 2000s with varying degrees of critical and economic success.

Why did R.E.M. break up?

R.E.M. announced their breakup after 31 years of marriage. We have decided to call it a day as a band, the band announced in a statement on their official website. “As lifetime friends and co-conspirators,” they added. We leave with a strong sense of thankfulness, closure, and amazement at everything we have done.

R.E.M. recorded 15 albums in just over three decades as a band, including classics like Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time, and Automatic For the People. Collapse Into Now, the band’s last album, was released in March of this year. Later this year, the band intends to issue a greatest hits collection spanning their whole career, which will contain a few brand-new songs created after the band finished