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R.E.M. Will Not Play Together Again: ‘It Would Never Be as Good’

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry reflected on their career ahead of their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The quartet confirmed they would not play together again (it would take “a comet,” according to bassist Mike Mills, and guitarist Peter Buck opined, “It would never be as good,”) but they said they were proud of their accomplishments and ended the band in 2011 at the right time for them. In an emotional moment, drummer Bill Berry broke down when reflecting on his departure from the band in 1997 after he suffered a brain aneurysm onstage at a concert two years earlier. This year’s other Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees include Timbaland, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Dean Pitchford, and Hillary Lindsay.

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