大象传媒

To celebrate Michael Stipe鈥檚 65th birthday, the story of the band REM - formed by four friends from Athens, Georgia - who recorded music, played live and in session, and appeared in interviews on 大象传媒 programmes from 1984 until they broke up in 2011.

This new compilation of archive interviews and key tracks comes from decades of broadcasts with Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Peter Buck, talking to producer Mark Hagen, Radio 4鈥檚 Kirsty Lang, Whistle Test鈥檚 David Hepworth and Richard Skinner, Jools Holland, Simon Mayo, Matt Everitt, Mark Radcliffe and Jo Whiley. It includes 大象传媒 live concert and session performances at Glastonbury, St. James鈥檚 Church Piccadilly, Whistle Test and Later. Plus sessions for Mark & Lard, John Peel, Into The Night and Radio 2 Drivetime. These originally featured on albums including their debut Murmur, Reckoning, Lifes Rich Pageant, Document, Green, Out Of Time, Automatic For The People, Monster, Around The Sun and their final compilation Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011.