{"id":31060,"date":"2024-12-17T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-17-1958-r-e-m-s-mike-mills-was-born\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:02:25","slug":"on-this-day-dec-17-1958-r-e-m-s-mike-mills-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-17-1958-r-e-m-s-mike-mills-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 17, 1958: R.E.M.\u2019s Mike Mills was born"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, Dec. 17, 1958 …<\/span><\/p>\n

R.E.M.<\/strong> bassist and founding member Mike Mills<\/strong> was born in Orange County, California. He is best known for his songwriting and harmonizing backing vocals.<\/span><\/p>\n

After becoming a huge local success in Athens, Georgia, R.E.M. recorded their first single, \u201cRadio Free Europe,\u201d in 1981, which became a hit. They recorded their debut EP,\u00a0<\/span>Chronic Town<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0in October 1981. It was released on I.R.S. records in August 1982, with their debut album,\u00a0<\/span>Murmur<\/span><\/em>, dropping in 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n

R.E.M. went on to release 15 studio albums, seeing a huge commercial success with 1991\u2019s <\/span>Out of Time<\/span><\/em>, featuring the hit \u201cLosing My Religion,\u201d and 1992\u2019s <\/span>Automatic for the People<\/span><\/em>, which featured such classics as \u201cMan on the Moon\u201d and \u201cEverybody Hurts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

R.E.M. broke up in 2011, and since then Mills has continued to make music, collaborating with other artists and as a member of the band The Baseball Project<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mills was inducted into the Rock\u00a0& Roll Hall of Fame with\u00a0R.E.M. in 2007 and to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024. At the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction he reunited with his R.E.M. bandmates,\u00a0Michael Stipe<\/strong>, Peter Buck<\/strong> and Bill Berry<\/strong>, to perform “Losing My Religion,”\u00a0the first performance with all four members of the band since 1995.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, Dec. 17, 1958 … R.E.M. bassist and founding member Mike Mills was born in Orange County, California. He is best known for his songwriting and harmonizing backing vocals. After becoming a huge local success in Athens, Georgia, R.E.M. recorded their first single, \u201cRadio Free Europe,\u201d in 1981,Read 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":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31060"}],"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=31060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}