Michael Stipe: "We didn't want fame, we didn't want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band". REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released.

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REM have just emerged from a sex shop. Babeland is one of the Lower East Side's finest emporiums of kinky toys and accessories. Accompanied by a tiny camera crew the band thrashed out a song then ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Books. Followed categories will be added to My News. REM in 1994. Bound for the tour’s opening concert, in Perth, Australia, the musicians were all dressed for ...

Peter Buck, guitarist for the band REM, today apologised outside court after he was charged with a string of offences in an alleged… Peter Buck, guitarist for the band REM, today apologised outside ...

REM's final album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March this year and was hailed - as were so many of its predecessors - as a return to form. Certainly, the band sounded rejuvenated and energetic ...

Rock guitarist Peter Buck today apologised outside court after he was charged with a string of offences in an alleged air rage incident. Buck, a 44-year-old father of two, who plays with the group REM ...

REM released their 15th album, Collapse Into Now, in March REM's 30-year career began in the underground, with the groundbreaking and influential mid-80s albums Murmur and Reckoning. They finally ...

The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful - blossoming ...