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Fact #158484

When:

Short story:

R.E.M. begin seven days of recording in Reflections Sound Studio, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Full article:

Peter Buck (guitarist, R.E.M.) : We would work until three or four in the morning, then (producers) Don Dixon and Mitch Easter would get there at 10.00 … So by midnight those guys would be exhausted.

Don Dixon : We were making the records very quickly by the period’s standards. You can make records that are better thematically by making them quicker, where you don’t have the luxury of second-guessing yourself.