Happy 60th birthday today to Bill Berry of R.E.M. Berry performed and was the drummer on the iconic Athens, Ga band’s first ten albums up through 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Berry then left the music industry to become a farmer, and has since maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M. and appearing on other artists’ recordings. Watch Berry and R.E.M. perform live in 1984 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ.
