Se separa REM tras 30 años / After more than 30 years, R.E.M. decides to quit

Tras 30 años de carrera, R.E.M. anuncia su separación

"A todos nuestros fans y amigos: como R.E.M., y como cómplices y amigos de toda la vida, hemos decidido poner punto y final a la banda", dice un comunicado firmado por los integrantes de la banda.

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La banda de rock estadounidense R.E.M. decidió separarse tras más de 30 años sobre los escenarios, informaron los integrantes del grupo a través de su página web oficial.
"A todos nuestros fans y amigos: como R.E.M., y como cómplices y amigos de toda la vida, hemos decidido poner punto y final a la banda", dice un comunicado firmado por el cantante Michael Stipe, el bajista Mike Mills y el guitarrista Peter Buck.
"Nos marchamos con una enorme sensación de gratitud, de finalidad, y de asombro por todo lo conseguido. A todo aquel que se emocionó con nuestra música, nuestro más sincero agradecimiento por escucharnos", concluye la nota.
La discografía de R.E.M. incluye álbumes tan conocidos como "Out of Time" (1991), "Automatic for the People" (1992) o "Monster" (1994), en los cuales se recogían temas célebres como "Losing my Religion", "Everybody Hurts" o "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?".
Su último álbum, el décimo quinto de su carrera, fue "Collapse into Now", compuesto por doce canciones que intercalaban rock, tiempos lentos y ritmos pop, y que Mills consideró el mejor disco de la formación desde "Out of time".
Fuente: EFE
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After more than 30 years, R.E.M. decides to 'call it a day'

R.E.M. announced today that they have broken up after 31 years together. "As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the band said in a statement on their official website. "We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished."
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In just over three decades as a band, R.E.M. released 15 albums including landmark works such as "Murmur," "Reckoning," "Document," "Out of Time" and "Automatic For the People." The band's final album, "Collapse Into Now," was released in March of this year. The band have plans to release a career-spanning greatest hits collection later this year, which will include a handful of new songs finished after the band completed "Collapse Into Now."
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"During our last tour, and while making 'Collapse Into Now' and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'what next'?," bassist Mike Mills wrote on the R.E.M. site. "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together."
Mills insists that the band have ended their working relationship on very good terms. "We feel kind of like pioneers in this," he says. "There's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We've made this decision together, amicably and with each other's best interests at heart. The time just feels right."
"I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way," says frontman Michael Stipe.
Ethan Kaplan, owner of the R.E.M. fan community Murmurs and former Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology at Warner Bros. Records, says that the band's decision was influenced in part by label politics. "I suspected this was coming last fall," Kaplan tells Rolling Stone. "If you remember, they weathered a lot of storms in this business, and have always operated on their own terms. [Warner Bros.] changed starting last September, and I think the demands on a band now to get a record out were more than they might have wanted to commit. I can understand that after how hard they worked for how long, the thought of going back to 'paying dues' with new label staff, in a very weird industry, was too much."

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