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R.E.M.’s Current Tour May Test Its Mainstream Mettle

Friday, March 3rd, 1989

By David Silverman
03.03.89
Chicago Tribune
It’s a time of reckoning for R.E.M.
After two platinum albums and years as critics’ darlings and kings of the alternative and college circuits, are they ready to take a place among music’s upper class? And are they capable of taking that place?
When R.E.M. takes the stage Monday night at the Rosemont Horizon, [...]