{"id":29715,"date":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-set-for-first-group-interview-in-almost-30-years\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","slug":"r-e-m-set-for-first-group-interview-in-almost-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-set-for-first-group-interview-in-almost-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. set for first group interview in almost 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The four members of R.E.M.<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Stipe<\/strong>, Mike Mills<\/strong>, Bill Berry<\/strong> and Peter Buck<\/strong> \u2013 sit down with <\/span>CBS Mornings<\/span><\/em> Thursday for what will be their first interview together in almost 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The band is set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame that night, and\u00a0in <\/span>a\u00a0preview of the interview<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0they discuss how it feels to be\u00a0recognized for their songwriting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe lived or died on the strength of our songs, so this is a huge honor,\u201d Mills shares, with Buck adding, \u201cIt is the hardest thing that we do and it\u2019s the thing that we worked on the most from the very beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we had to,” Berry chimes in. \u201cI mean early on just to put food on the table we had to write songs as fast as we could.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked if they ever look at their body of work as a whole, Mills noted that they aren\u2019t quite that self-indulgent, to which Stipe interrupted with, \u201cOK I am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I wind up on YouTube and I watch some live performance, I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow I can\u2019t believe we did that,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cLike we did, we did things and we did it really well from time to time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala takes place Thursday in New York City. This year’s other inductees include\u00a0Steely Dan<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Donald Fagen\u00a0<\/strong>and the late\u00a0Walter Becker<\/strong>, Timbaland<\/strong>, Hillary Lindsey <\/strong>and Dean Pitchford<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic The four members of R.E.M. \u2013 Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Peter Buck \u2013 sit down with CBS Mornings Thursday for what will be their first interview together in almost 30 years. The band is set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame thatRead More →<\/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":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715"}],"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=29715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}