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35. Shiny Happy
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36. The Most Improbably Successful Group in Music Today
Bill Berry, Villa Lux, aired March 12, 1991, on RTL4 TV, Luxembourg.
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37. These Are Days
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38. Does Everyone Still Want to Do This?
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39. Enter the Monster
MTV News, aired January 5, 1995, on MTV.
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40. Did Someone Put a Curse on Us?
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41. How the West Was Won…
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42. …And Where It Got Us
David Altschul, author interview, May 15, 2023.
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43. I’m Outta Here
Fanning Profiles, aired October 5, 1992, on RTE TV (Dublin).
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Scott McCaughey, author interview, February 24, 2021.
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44. Airportmen
Fletcher, Perfect Circle, 317.
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45. The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.
Raw footage of group interview with Adam Weissler, September 2003.
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46. The Murmurers
Michael Stipe, interview, 1986, in R.E.M. by MTV.
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47. This Is Going to Be Loud
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Index
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Accelerate (R.E.M.), 389–90, 393
Accelerate Tour (2008), 390–91, 393
Adams, Bryan, 136–37, 217
Aerosmith, 21, 25, 26
“Ages of You” (R.E.M.), 104, 116
Aguar, Rick, 189
AIDS, 5, 259, 274, 288–89, 293, 313, 314, 370
“Airportman” (R.E.M.), 360, 363, 365
Aleka’s Attic, 300
Alice in Chains, 301
Allan, Marc, 244
Allen, Terry, 45–46, 94, 96, 108
Allen, Woody, 22, 384n
“Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter” (R.E.M.), 394, 399
“All I Have to Do Is Dream” (Everly Brothers), 200, 213
Allman, Duane, 168, 169
Allman, Gregg, 385
Allman Brothers Band, 45, 105–6, 168–69, 255, 287, 406
“All the Best” (R.E.M.), 394, 399
“All the Right Friends” (R.E.M.), 65, 101–2, 373
“All Your Friends Are Dying” (Bad Ends), 407
Altschul, David, 343
A&M Records, 119–20, 188
“Animal” (R.E.M.), 373
Annie Hall, 384n
Apocalypse Now, 19
“Apologist, The” (R.E.M.), 362, 363, 366
Arista, 229, 230
Around the Sun (R.E.M.), 379–81, 381n, 382, 389
see also specific songs
Arquette, Rosanna, 148
“Ascent of Man, The” (R.E.M.), 380
Athens, Ga.
gay community of, 312
music scene of, 6, 40–41, 42, 43, 44–45, 56–57, 144–45, 276
University of Georgia art school in, 34–35, 36–37
Athens, Ga.: Inside/Out, 200, 212–13, 221
Athens Night Life, 2
Atkinson, Debi, 167, 168, 196, 197, 201
