R.E.M.
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Year:
2007
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Inducted by:
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
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Category:
Performers
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Bill Berry
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Michael Stipe
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Mike Mills
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Peter Buck
Introduction
Out of the underground and into the arena.
R.E.M. is the indie band that went on to sell out stadiums; their arrival marked the beginning of alternative rock. They’re strange, poetic, guarded and mischievous—we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Inducts R.E.M.
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Inducts R.E.M. at the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Inducts R.E.M.00:13:10
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R.E.M. Acceptance Speech00:07:13
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"Man On The Moon"00:05:23
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R.E.M. perform "Gardening at Night"00:03:36
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"I Wanna Be Your Dog"00:03:35
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Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Inducts Nirvana00:06:12
Hall of Fame Essay
2007
For a while in the early eighties, it sometimes seemed that nothing in the world of music was as important R.E.M. Maybe even outside the world of music, too.
This was well before the band had enjoyed million-selling albums, huge radio hits, and groundbreaking videos. Devotion to R.E.M. was far less clinical and far more intimate than such quantitative measures.
Indeed, for years it seemed that everybody who loved R.E.M.’s music had personally met the members of the band, or at least seen them perform in the dingy new-wave clubs and out-of-the-way holes-in-the-wall the band played relentlessly.