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REM look back on Monster: 'We did not want to become the dancing monkey'
REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released. When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic ...
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Listen to a new, raw version of REM's 'elegy and eulogy' for Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain became close friends with Michael Stipe in the years before his death While REM were recording their ninth album, Monster, in 1994, Michael Stipe received a phone call he'd been ...