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Matthew Perry Perry was born on August 19, 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada. His hobbies include writing, ice hockey, and softball. He's also a rather sharp tennis player, taking 17th in the junior singles category in high school. It was in the seventh grade when Perry first showed an interest in acting. When he was 15, he moved to Los Angeles to live with his father, another actor, John Bennett Perry. While in high school, he became more interested in acting by performing in his school's stage productions. After graduating high school, he was offered a leading role in the TV series Friends and things have just gone on from there! | ||||||||||||||||
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R.E.M. Though R.E.M. formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980, Mike Mills (b. December 17, 1958) and Bill Berry (b. July 31, 1958) were the only Southerners in the group. Both had attended high school together in Macon, playing in a number of bands dring their teens. Michael Stipe (b. January 4, 1960) was a military brat, moving throughout the country during his childhood. By his teens, he had discovered punk rock through Patti Smith, Television, and Wire, and began playing in cover bands in St. Louis. By 1978, he had begun studying art at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he began frequenting the Wuxtry record store. Peter Buck (b. December 6, 1956), a native of California, was a clerk at Wuxtry. Buck had been a fanatical record collector, consuming everything from classic rock to punk and free jazz, and was just beginning to learn how to play guitar. Discovering they had similar tastes, Buck and Stipe began working together, eventually meeting Berry and Mills through a mutual friend. In April of 1980, the band formed to play a party for their friend, rehearsing a number of garage, psycedelic bubblegum and punk covers in an converted Episcopalian church. At the time, the group was played under the name the Twisted Kites. By the summer, the band had settled on the name R.E.M. after flipping randonmly through the dictionary, and had met Jefferson Holt, who became their manager after witnessing the group's first out-of-state concert in North Carolina. | R.E.M. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gregg Alexander | A pop-rock group that was formed in the late 1990s but was heavily influenced by the rock and soul of the 1970s, The New Radicals are the creation of singer/producer/songwriter Gregg Alexander--a native of Grosse Point, MI (near Detroit). Growing up in Michigan, Alexander started listening to both rock and R&B extensively as a child and was only twelve when he acquired his first electric guitar. After high school, he traveled around the U.S. and lived in both New York and Los Angeles. It was in L.A. that he formed The New Radicals, which signed with MCA in 1997 and soon got to work on Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too--a 1970s-minded CD that came out in October 1998. Alexander did all of the producing and arranging and most of the songwriting that promising album. ~ Alex Henderson, All-Music Guide | ||||||||||||||||
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