I didn't wake up one day and decide, "I just can't stand these guys anymore" or anything. He later explained on VH-1's Behind the Music: He recovered and rejoined the band, but left in October 1997, saying that he no longer had the drive or enjoyment level to be in the band, and that he wanted to not travel. On March 1, 1995, at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, Berry collapsed on stage during an R.E.M. bandmates Peter Buck, Mike Mills, rocker Warren Zevon, and Bryan Cook. Berry's objection ultimately led the line to be changed to "hang your freedom higher."ĭuring 1984, Berry also was drummer for the impromptu Hindu Love Gods, which featured his R.E.M. The song "Leave" was also written by Berry for R.E.M.'s album New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), which was his last album with the band.īerry was also responsible for toning down the lyrics of the song "Welcome to the Occupation." Stipe's original lyric was "hang your freedom fighters" which, given the Reagan administration's active support for the Nicaraguan contra "freedom fighters", sounded violent and militant, although Stipe himself countered that the line could be taken multiple ways ("hang" as in either "lynch" or "frame on a wall").
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Other Berry songs included " Perfect Circle", " Driver 8", " Cant Get There from Here" and "I Took Your Name".
Berry also made notable songwriting contributions, particularly for " Everybody Hurts" and " Man on the Moon", both from Automatic for the People. In concert, he sometimes performed on bass, and supplied regular backing vocals. In addition to his duties as a drummer, Berry contributed occasional guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals, keyboards and piano on studio tracks. Prior to dropping out, Berry studied pre-law at the University of Georgia. They rented an apartment on Arlington Place in Macon and Bill landed a job at the Paragon booking agency next door.īerry and Mills moved to Athens, Georgia, in 1978, where they met Michael Stipe and Peter Buck. He and Mills decided to make money by getting day jobs.
Their first attempt at a career in music was short-lived.
It was there that he met bass guitarist Mike Mills, and they played together in several different bands, including Shadowfax. In 1972, the Berry family made their final move, to Macon, Georgia, just in time for Bill to start high school at Mount de Sales Academy. In 1968, they moved again, this time to Sandusky, Ohio. At the age of three, Berry moved with his family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where they would remain for the next seven years. William Thomas Berry was born on July 31, 1958, in Duluth, Minnesota, the fifth child of Don and Anna Berry. 2.1 On-stage collapse and leaving R.E.M.