Michael Stipe turned 65 right after New Year’s ... It will have been 14 years this March since R.E.M. — an Athens, Georgia, foursome that for a stretch of about five years in the 1990s ...

With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up, Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. However, for ...