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    Oct 17, 2019 3 minutes
    By Stephen Deusner

    Monster: 25th Anniversary Edition WARNER/CRAFT

    8/10

    MONSTER was cursed. On the first day of recording at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans – one of four studios REM booked for their ninth album – Mike Mills was hospitalised with an intestinal disorder. In short order all the other band members fell ill. Michael Stipe mourned the deaths of friends Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix. And during the world tour for the album, drummer Bill Berry suffered a brain aneurysm on stage. He

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