Watch This 1984 Interview With R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Bill Berry

What influences your vocal style? “I saw Ghostbusters yesterday it’s a really good movie.”

Check out this 1984 interview with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Bill Berry at recorded at New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre, and wait for that moment: “I don’t think we’re spearheading some huge new vanguard or anything like that.” Berry says, “We’d rather be a critic’s choice than a sell-out, commercial top 10 group.” Soon enough, they were be both.

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