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R.E.M. Reissuing Reveal on November 20
Craft Recordings will release a 25th anniversary expanded edition of R.E.M.'s 2001 album Reveal on November 20.
Craft Recordings will release an expanded 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.'s 2001 album Reveal on November 20. The release pairs the original 12-track album with The Black Sessions Revealed, a concert recorded for Radio France on May 7, 2001. A live version of Imitation of Life unreleased for 25 years has been made available to listeners, and the Paris performance will also be issued separately as a 2-LP vinyl set.
The band worked again with producer Pat McCarthy, recording in Athens, Vancouver, Dublin, and Miami. Michael Stipe wrote Disappear and I've Been High and completed Imitation of Life on a beach. Reveal reached No. 1 on the UK charts and No. 6 on the Billboard 200.
During the Paris concert, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, and Peter Buck were accompanied by Scott McCaughey, Ken Stringfellow, and Joey Waronker. The deluxe package includes a 32-page hardcover book with new liner notes written by journalist Birgit Fuss. Director Garth Jennings created the four-minute Imitation of Life video from 20 seconds of pool party footage. Michael Moore directed the video for All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star) at a Brooklyn high school with students, while I'll Take the Rain was the group's first fully animated video.
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