R.E.M. Didn’t Want to Announce Songwriters Hall of Fame Reunion Because That Would ‘F–k It Up’

R.E.M. Didn’t Want to Announce Songwriters Hall of Fame Reunion Because That Would ‘F–k It Up’

It didn’t take “a comet,” as Mike Mills joked it would, just an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame to prompt R.E.M. to perform together for the first time since 2007.  In the lead up to the event, sat down for an interview with CBS Mornings, the majority of which aired yesterday. But on Friday morning, following the induction ceremony and R.E.M.’s surprise performance of “Losing My Religion,” CBS shared a few additional clips — inclu…