For rock fans of a certain age this may be hard to believe, but it’s been more than 40 years since R.E.M. scored their first Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Radio Free Europe.” The scrappy band from ...

R.E.M. fans were in for a surprise as singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry all appeared onstage together Thursday night (Feb. 8) for the first time ...

R.E.M's Bill Berry became emotional as he reflected on his decision to leave the band at the height of their success. Berry and fellow University of Georgia students Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike ...

The complete lineup of R.E.M. delivered their first public performance since 2007 to mark their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. The quartet delivered just one song – their ...

Thirty years ago, R.E.M. released their loud, glam rock masterpiece Monster. By 1994, they observed alternative music dominate popular culture, a movement they helped lift from the underground with ...

“I don’t really know how else to regard it, except that some energy force in the universe pulled the four of us together to write pop music for the particular moment that we were there doing it,” says ...

What was R.E.M.? It depends on who you are. Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most ...

That’s them in the spotlight, again. Legendary rock band R.E.M. reunited at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City on June 13, walking the red carpet and then playing an ...

Anthony Mason is a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. He has been a frequent contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

The most surprising thing about Peter Ames Carlin’s biography “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is how undramatic the story seems. R.E.M., in Mr. Carlin’s telling, is the band that did it right, ...