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Bill Berry Biography
Bill Berry is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on July 31, 1958 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Drummer who retired after 17 years in the alternative rock group R.E.M.
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William Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) is a retired American musician who was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Although best known for his solid, economical drumming style, Berry also played other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M. albums. After 17 years with the band, Berry left the music industry to become a farmer, and has since maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M. and appearing on other artists’ recordings.
In 1972, the Berry family made their final move, to Macon, Georgia, just in time for Bill to start high school at Mount de Sales Academy. It was there that he met bass guitarist Mike Mills, and they played together in several different bands, including Shadowfax. Their first attempt at a career in music was short-lived. He and Mills decided to make money by getting day jobs. They rented an apartment on Arlington Place in Macon and Bill landed a job at the Paragon booking agency next door.
He was married Mari Berry on March 22 in 1986, and then divorced her 11 years later. In 2003, he was blessed with Owen, his son. Owen and his partner Cybele.
| Name | Bill Berry |
| First Name | Bill |
| Last Name | Berry |
| Occupation | Drummer |
| Birthday | July 31 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place of Birth | Duluth |
| Home Town | Minnesota |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Anna Berry, Don Berry |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Mari Berry |
| Children(s) | Owen Berry |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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R.E.M. was formed in 1980. In addition to his duties as a drummer, Berry contributed occasional guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals, keyboards and piano on studio tracks. In concert, he sometimes performed on bass, and supplied regular backing vocals. Berry also made notable songwriting contributions, particularly for “Everybody Hurts” and “Man on the Moon”, both from Automatic for the People. Other Berry songs included “Perfect Circle”, “Driver 8”, “Cant Get There from Here” and “I Took Your Name”. The song “Leave” was also written by Berry for R.E.M.’s 1996 album New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which was his last album with the band.
Bill Berry Net Worth
Bill Berry is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Berry's net worth $40 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student at in the University of Georgia, intending to go to law school following graduation.
He quit performing with R.E.M. in the hope of pursuing the field of farming.
William Thomas Berry was born on July 31, 1958, in Duluth, Minnesota, the fifth child of Don and Anna Berry. At the age of three years, Berry moved with his family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where they would remain for the next seven years. In 1968, they were on the move again, this time to Sandusky, Ohio.
| Net Worth | $40 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Drummer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
During 1984, Berry also was drummer for the impromptu Hindu Love Gods, which featured his R.E.M. bandmates Peter Buck, Mike Mills, rocker Warren Zevon, and Bryan Cook.
In 1986, Berry married his then-girlfriend Mari. When crack began to infiltrate Athens in the early 1990s, the couple moved to nearby Farmington. “In 1988, I decided that I would broaden my portfolio, which was pretty slim back then. It’s not like I was rolling in dough,” he explained in 2019. “I wanted to buy land and found this spot. It’s sixty acres, and it’s far enough outside of town that it was cheap. It was, like, $2000/acre, back in ’88. Land’s more like $10-$12,000 now. It was strictly an investment; I was going to sell it later.” His farm, which includes sheep, is at the north end of his property. A caretaker works on the farm; Berry does not anymore. He has a garden, but his caretaker also looks after that. “I get the rewards of it, but he does all the work.”
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Berry and Mills moved to Athens, Georgia, in 1978, where they met Michael Stipe and Peter Buck. Prior to dropping out, Berry studied pre-law at the University of Georgia.
In 2003, Berry and his girlfriend Cybele Lange had a son, Owen.
Who is Bill Berry Dating?
According to our records, Bill Berry married to Mari Berry . As of December 1, 2023, Bill Berry’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Bill Berry. You may help us to build the dating records for Bill Berry!On March 1, 1995, at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, Berry collapsed on stage during an R.E.M. show from a ruptured brain aneurysm. He recovered and rejoined the band, but left in October 1997, saying that he no longer had the drive or enjoyment level to be in the band, and that he wanted to not travel. He later explained on VH-1’s Behind The Music:
Facts & Trivia
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His musical activities after leaving R.E.M. have been sporadic, but did include recording for the Tourette Syndrome Charity Album Welcome Companions in 2000. On May 11, 2018, he performed at the Winterville Auditorium in Winterville, Georgia, as part of a quintet named Mayor Ferrelle and the Councilmen, formed by the band’s vocalist and lead guitarist, city mayor Dodd Ferrelle. The other three members were John Kean, David Barbe and Adam Poulin.
Why did R.E.M. drummer quit?
After careful consideration and lots of conversations with his bandmates, Berry decided it was time for him to redirect his focus to something other than music. The drummer, who had always been an early riser, decided to put his energy into his hay farm in Farmington, outside of Athens.
What does Bill Berry do now?
Berry retired from the band in 1997 after suffering a brain aneurysm onstage in 1995, and has since maintained a low profile, working as a farmer in Georgia. He occasionally played gigs with his old band, however, last performing with them in 2007 at R.E.M.’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Which member of R.E.M. had a brain tumor?
It was a Monster, all right.
Are R.E.M. still recording?
The band’s final album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March of this year. The band have plans to release a career-spanning greatest hits collection later this year, which will include a handful of new songs finished after the band completed Collapse Into Now.
Will R.E.M. play again?
R.E.M. fans, Michael Stipe doesn’t have encouraging news when it comes to ever seeing the seminal rock band ever together again. In a new interview for New York public radio station WNYC, Stipe was clear about his take on the future — or lack thereof — for R.E.M.: “We will never reunite.”
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