{"id":31645,"date":"2025-03-14T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-14-1991-r-e-m-play-the-first-of-two-secret-shows-in-london\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:02:29","slug":"on-this-day-march-14-1991-r-e-m-play-the-first-of-two-secret-shows-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-14-1991-r-e-m-play-the-first-of-two-secret-shows-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 14, 1991: R.E.M. play the first of two secret shows in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-14\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, March 14, 1991\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>R.E.M<\/strong>., billed under the pseudonym, <strong>Bingo Hand Job<\/strong>, headlined the first of two secret acoustic shows in London as part of a promo tour for their seventh studio album,\u00a0<em>Out of Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s 18-song set list included performances of several songs from the album, including \u201cLosing My Religion,\u201d which became a top 5 hit, plus \u201cRadio Song,\u201d \u201cLow\u201d and \u201cBelong.\u201d The also performed \u201cWorld Leader Pretend\u201d and \u201cYou Are Everything\u201d from <em>Green<\/em>, &#8220;Fall on Me&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Life\u2019s Rich Pageant<\/em>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p>An album featuring performances from the two shows was released on vinyl for Record Store Day in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Out of Time<\/em>\u00a0peaked at #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K., and went on to sell more than 18 million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 14, 1991\u2026 R.E.M., billed under the pseudonym, Bingo Hand Job, headlined the first of two secret acoustic shows in London as part of a promo tour for their seventh studio album,\u00a0Out of Time. The band\u2019s 18-song set list included performances of several songs from the album,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-14-1991-r-e-m-play-the-first-of-two-secret-shows-in-london\/\">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\/31645"}],"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=31645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}