Rock Legends REM Have split up as a band.

Members of legendary US rock band REM have announced they are splitting up after 31 years. “We have decided to call it a day as a band,” the band said. “To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.”
The group found fame with a string of albums, notably 90s hits Out of Time and Automatic for the People. The band’s website was briefly unavailable on Wednesday afternoon after the announcement was made.
Four of REM’s albums in the 1990s went platinum in the UK, peaking with Automatic For The People, which sold more than 1.8m copies. In the States, three of the band’s albums were certified quadruple platinum - representing sales of 4m - according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The group was originally made up of singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry, who left the band in 1997. “I hope our fans realise this wasn’t an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way,” Stipe said as he announced the split.
Asked in a BBC 6 Music interview earlier this year whether every album felt like the band’s last, Stipe had said: “I put so much into the work we do that, when I’m done, I feel like I’d never be able to do it again.” In the same interview he said the band had started off without any goals.
“The fact that we were making records and touring felt like this amazing adventure to us. We didn’t necessarily want to conquer the world - but then we ended up doing exactly that in some small corner of the universe that belonged to pop music and us.”