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REM, Rapid Eye Movement, was founded in Athens, US, by young artists Michael Stipe, (born on 4th January 1960 in Decatur near Atlanta), Peter Buck, (born on December 6, 1956 in LA), Mike Mills, (born 17th December 1958 in Orange County, California) and William Berry, (born in Duluth, Minnesota on 31 July 1958). The band’s routes go all the way back to 1972 when Mills and Berry met as scholars in ninth grade in Georgia. After their original band The Frustration failed they moved to Athens in ‘78, where they met friends Stipe and Buck. After an initial friendship REM was born in 1980. With 13 albums to date, after 20 years of entertaining rock, REM are undoubtedly one of the most famous and influential rockgroups to roll out of the states. After the EP Chronic Town in 1982, the first album “Murmur” was released in 1983. The singles “Radio Free Europe” and “Talk about the Passion” were instant hits in the UK and US. REM were shy, but quietly confident, and that showed as they ...