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Who sang (Don't Go Back To) Rockville?

Release date: 1984

Duration: 04:33

R.E.M. released the song (Don't Go Back To) Rockville. Date of release: 1984.

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The protagonist is waiting for a bus to go to a faraway place where no one talks to strangers. He thinks that if his companion returns to Rockville, she will waste another year in an aimless factory. He drinks himself to sleep at night, but hopes she will return. The protagonist warns his partner not to return to Rockville and lose another year.

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R.E.M. - Short Biography

- R.E.M. is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980.
- The band members are Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
- Noted for Buck's arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's vocal quality, stage presence and obscure lyrics, Mills' melodic bass lines and backing vocals, and Berry's drumming style.
- Considered a pioneer of alternative rock in the early 1990s.
- They sold over 90 million albums worldwide and became one of the world's best-selling musical acts before breaking up in 2011.

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"(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., released as the second and final single from their second album, Reckoning. Despite its popularity, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Chart. The song features plucked guitars and a catchy melody, as well as Michael Stipe's emotive vocals.

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