It's been more than three years since R.E.M. went their separate ways and, up until last night, it had been that long since Michael Stipe had made his way back to a stage.
In support of their recent comprehensive six-DVD set, 'REMTV,' R.E.M. frontman, Michael Stipe, made a stop by 'CBS This Morning' to chat with Anthony Mason.
"It was a typical Athens story," Bill Berry says in an old MTV interview. "Four guys meet at a party and want to play at other parties and drink beer and have fun."
After more than 30 years together, during which time they rose from critical alternative-rock favorites to international pop superstars and eventually Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status, R.E.M. announced Wednesday they have “called it a day as a band.”
Over the last 15 years or so, R.E.M. fans have grown accustomed to three-to-four-year waits between new albums -- but it looks like the band is speeding things up for its next release.
With its most recent album, 'Collapse Into Now,' a mere four months old, R.E.M. is already in an Athens, Georgia studio working on the follow-up -- and fans can follow their progress via a series of snapshots that s