Book description
R. E.M.'s public image has always been tightly controlled. Icons of
anti-celebrity rock, who bacame huge celebrity rock stars, they were,
according to the story, the first U. S. post new-wave band who were both
commercially successful and cool. Drawing on exclusive interviews with
Mike Mills, Peter Buck and other members of R. E.M.'s nuclear family,
Fiction re-evaluates the music and career of a group who sold almost no
records for the first half of their existence, then became 'the biggest
rock group in the world' in the second half.
