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Product details
- ISBN 9781917274197
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Omnibus Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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R.E.M., the most acclaimed American group of their generation, disbanded in September 2011 with their idealism and dignity intact. In this edition of his best-selling R.E.M. biography, Tony Fletcher brings their story to a conclusion and explains what led this unique group to draw a curtain on their career.
Drawing on interviews with band members, friends, associates and business partners, the book follows R.E.M.’s career from their debut in 1983, throughout the 1990s, to their final years together.
Granted access to the group throughout their career, Tony Fletcher delves beyond R.E.M.’s renowned humility and social awareness, discussing fame, fortune and sexuality with the same keen eye he casts on the group’s astonishing career and musical catalogue. The result is a balanced and thorough telling of one of the most compelling rock stories of our time.
Tony Fletcher is the author of eleven books, including several bestselling music biographies on The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Keith Moon and more. As a teenager, he started a fanzine at school in London during the late 1970s: a compendium, The Best of Jamming!: Selections & Stories from the Fanzine that Grew Up 1977-86, was published in late 2021 by Omnibus Press. Fletcher moved to New York City in the late 1980s, and to the Hudson Valley in the mid-2000s.
