What years did REM play Glastonbury?

REM at Glastonbury Festival 1999 – the incredible performance that almost never happened – Somerset Live.

Who was the drummer in rem at Glastonbury 1999?

Bill Berry
Birth name	William Thomas Berry
Born	July 31, 1958 Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock, folk rock, college rock, jangle pop
Instruments	Drums

What songs did REM play at Glastonbury?

The set included classic R.E.M. like “The One I Love,” “Losing My Religion,” “Everybody Hurts,” “Man on the Moon” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

When did REM last perform?

November 18th, 2008
They played their last full show in Mexico City on November 18th, 2008, and when they gathered a year later to begin work on Collapse Into Now, the final album they owed their label, everyone was in the same headspace.

Who from R.E.M. died?

R.E.M drummer Bill Rieflin has died aged 59, his bandmate Michael Stipe, 69, has confirmed. According to friends and social media posts from several artists, Bill died after a battle with cancer.

What was R.E.M. last song?

We All Go Back to Where We Belong
“We All Go Back to Where We Belong” is the final single from American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 2011. The song is the lead single from the band’s final album, the career-spanning greatest hits compilation Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011.

Did R.E.M. take drugs?

The REM frontman became addicted to narcotics as he rose to fame, but he beat his demons in 1983 and has since turned his back on substances. Stipe was so high when he found out about the death of his lover he was unable to show any emotions – and it forced him to want to change.

Who has the biggest crowd ever at Glastonbury?

The Levellers
The Levellers (1994) The hippy-heavy crowd at Glastonbury were in thrall to the Levellers: swelled by gatecrashers, this is possibly the biggest-ever Glastonbury headliner crowd, estimated at 300,000 people.

Why did the band R.E.M. break up?

‘ Michael looked at Mike, and Mike said, ‘Sounds right to me. ‘ That’s how it was decided.” It wasn’t that the band had felt like it had stopped creating good music, Buck went on, it was more simply they were growing tired of everything that went along with being in R.E.M.