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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker
Born and raised in the swamps of Athens, Georgia, a small town that would soon be made famous as the college music capitol of the United States, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry would find that they were not fit for the small town life lay ahead. Together they founded a band and after opening the dictionary and choosing the best word on the page in front of them they named it R.E.M.
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Just a minor quibble but none of the members of REM were born or raised in Athens, all of them grew up elsewhere and moved to Athens in their late teens/early twenties.