How R.E.M. Woke Up Rock ‘N’ Roll In The ’80s
Tuesday, December 5th, 1989By Bill Wyman
12.05.89
Chicago Tribune
At the end of the last decade, a young college dropout named Peter Buck was managing a tiny record store in Athens, Ga. He had little but a ready intelligence and a conceptual understanding of rock music. He dreamed of making a record as good as Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks.”
The prospect wasn’t [...]