{"id":28915,"date":"2024-03-01T18:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-1-1995-r-e-m-s-bill-berry-suffers-brain-aneurysm-onstage\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:06:26","slug":"on-this-day-march-1-1995-r-e-m-s-bill-berry-suffers-brain-aneurysm-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-1-1995-r-e-m-s-bill-berry-suffers-brain-aneurysm-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 1, 1995: R.E.M.\u2019s Bill Berry suffers brain aneurysm onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, March 1, 1995 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> drummer <strong>Bill Berry<\/strong> collapsed onstage at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, after suffering a brain aneurysm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band was on tour in support of their\u00a0ninth studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Monster. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">It\u00a0was their first tour in six years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Berry underwent surgery and R.E.M. wound up canceling the rest of the tour&#8217;s European leg. He was able to rejoin them once the tour\u00a0resumed in\u00a0the United States in May of that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It wound up being Berry\u2019s last tour with R.E.M. He announced his departure from the group in October 1997, and R.E.M. continued on as a three piece. They would eventually announce their breakup in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 1, 1995 \u2026 R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry collapsed onstage at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, after suffering a brain aneurysm. The band was on tour in support of their\u00a0ninth studio album,\u00a0Monster. It\u00a0was their first tour in six years. Berry underwent surgery and R.E.M. wound up<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-1-1995-r-e-m-s-bill-berry-suffers-brain-aneurysm-onstage\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}