On Thursday morning, Mike Mills told CBS Mornings that it would take “a comet” for R.E.M. to get back together. But on Thursday night, R.E.M. got back together to perform “Losing My Religion,” the band’s unexpected 1991 hit from Out of Time, at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where the band was being honored. The band had been secretly planning the reunion when the morning television program visited R.E.M.’s Athens rehearsal space in February.
It’s been 15 years since R.E.M. performed live, and 13 since the band broke up.
“The thing that makes a band a band is the chemistry that occurs between the three or four people when they’re standing on stage,” Mills told All Things Considered in 2011. “The one thing I really will miss is that energy that happens when Peter and Michael and I start to make noise together. You can’t replace that. You can only be grateful that you had it, and move on and find something else that makes you happy and excited.”
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