Published by Doubleday.
The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography
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In the spring of 1980, an unlikely group of musical eccentrics -- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry -- came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a few short years, they would be global superstars -- with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, and Green. Outrageous, raw, and inventive, R.E.M.'s distinctive sound was unmatched. In the tumultuous transition between the anxiety-ridden, commodified '80s and the hopeful idealism of the early '90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive energy.
In this intimately reported biography, acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the stereotypes of rock and roll to open a window in the the fascinating lives of four college friends whose relationships and loyalty stayed true until the end, R.E.M.'s music changed the world, embodying …
In the spring of 1980, an unlikely group of musical eccentrics -- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry -- came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a few short years, they would be global superstars -- with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, and Green. Outrageous, raw, and inventive, R.E.M.'s distinctive sound was unmatched. In the tumultuous transition between the anxiety-ridden, commodified '80s and the hopeful idealism of the early '90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive energy.
In this intimately reported biography, acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the stereotypes of rock and roll to open a window in the the fascinating lives of four college friends whose relationships and loyalty stayed true until the end, R.E.M.'s music changed the world, embodying a spirit of youth, activism, and political awareness and a combination of poignancy and pure unadulterated joy.
Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. paints a cultural history of the '80s and '90s at the commercial peak and near-total collapse of a buoyant music era, and the story of the generation that came of age at the apotheosis of rock.