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"Losing My Religion" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in February 1991 by Warner Bros. as the first single from their seventh album, Out of Time (1991). It developed from a mandolin riff improvised by the guitarist, Peter Buck , with lyrics about unrequited love .
The band also performed "Losing My Religion" with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Madison–Morgan Cultural Center, in Madison, Georgia, as part of MTV's 10th-anniversary special. [31] After spending some months off, R.E.M. returned to the studio in 1991 to record their next album. In late 1992, the band released Automatic for the ...
Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach [1] 1928 "Prove It On Me" Ma Rainey [2] 1929 "If Love Were All" Noël Coward: Written for the operetta Bitter Sweet. [3] 1932 "Mad About the Boy" Noël Coward [2] 1937 "Easy Living" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra [a] "My Funny Valentine" Rodgers and Hart [5] 1938 "Lush Life" Billy Strayhorn [2] 1939 ...
Warner Bros. Records executive Jeff Gold, alongside Rock the Vote campaign co-founder and Virgin Records executive Jeff Ayeroff, approached R.E.M. in regards to printing a petition on the back of Out of Time's CD longbox packaging in the United States, where buyers were encouraged to sign their name in support for Rock the Vote, who were in support of the Motor Voter Act to ease voter ...
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday afternoon, marking what is expected to be one of the last major pieces of legislation of his presidency. Prior to ...
The songs features Jay-Z rapping a lyric of rock band R.E.M.'s 1991 single "Losing My Religion". [1] Following the album's release, former frontman of R.E.M. Michael Stipe told NME that he was "thrilled" and that it was a "great honor" that Jay-Z included the lyrics in one of his songs. [6] [7]
The death of her mother when she was just 5 years old hit Madonna hard.. In archival clips and audio featured in the new Sky documentary Becoming Madonna, the Queen of Pop, 66, opens up about how ...
In 2011, a Rolling Stone Readers Poll ranked "Nightswimming" as R.E.M.’s second best song, behind "Losing My Religion". [18] Rolling Stone noted, “The track didn't do that well as a single, but in the past 20 years it's slowly become one of R.E.M.'s most beloved songs.”