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Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography But sometimes a taste ofTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation and reasserted the power of rock and roll "[Carlin's] unique gift for capturing the sweep and tenor of a cultural moment is here on brilliant display." Michael Chabon In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first