R.E.M.’s “Out of Time” 25 Years Later
25 years ago, I was the label manager for Warner Bros. in Tel Aviv. I’ve written about this a little bit before; it was a gig I fell into because I was in the right place at the right time, spoke English and had been working at the outer edges of the U.S. music business for a couple of years. There was a lot of music I was continually told would not ever be popular in Israel, and R.E.M. was one of those bands.
R.E.M.’s “Out of Time” 25 Years Later was originally published on Caryn Rose’s jukeboxgraduate.com