fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoR.E.M.'s hometown of Athens, Ga., still welcomes fans 45 years after the band started there
"It was here in 1980, that R.E.M. played their first show. The church building is long gone, torn down to make way for condos, but the brick and stone steeple remains, a monument to where it all started."
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