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Who sang Half A World Away?

Release date: 1991

Duration: 03:28

R.E.M. released the song Half A World Away. Date of release: 1991.

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The protagonist feels sad and lonely, and thinks of a distant person. He would like to be with her, but he is stuck in his own head. He has made mistakes and feels like he has to go through life alone, but he holds on and tries to stay strong.

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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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"Half a World Away" is a track from "Out of Time", the seventh studio album by the famous American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on March 12, 1991 on Warner Bros. Records. The album brought R.E.M. massive international recognition, turning their status as a cult band into a global phenomenon. "Out of Time" topped the U.S. and U.K. album charts, spending 109 weeks on the U.S. album charts, with two separate periods at the top, and 183 weeks on the U.K. charts, with only one week at the top. The album has sold more than four and a half million copies in the United States and more than 18 million copies worldwide. The album won three Grammy Awards in 1992, including Best Alternative Music Album, and two awards for the album's first single, "Losing My Religion."

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