“Shiny Happy People” was a smash hit for alternative rock band R.E.M. in 1991. In fact, the song was their first Top 10 hit in the UK, where it peaked at No. 6. The song was also popular across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Get ready to feel really, really old. Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released "Losing My Religion," a song that defined the ...

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

When a band writes and records a song about a famous person, and it becomes one of their signature hits, do we really need them to record a second song about the same person? In the case of R.E.M. and ...

R.E.M. already had five albums under their belt before major labels came calling. In their eight years together prior to signing with Warner Bros. and recording 1988’s Green, the Athens, Georgia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. R.E.M. — Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, and Bill Berry — at the 2024 Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. - Credit ...

Anthony Mason is a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. He has been a frequent contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

Get ready to feel really, really old. Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released "Losing My Religion," a song that defined the early '90s, at least in the alt rock genre. The song was the first ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...