R.E.M. Take It to the Bridge

R.E.M. have become the third act to sign on to perform at the Bridge School Concert in Mountain View, California. Event co-founder Neil Young and Pearl Jam are the other confirmed acts for the fifteenth annual show, which is scheduled for late October.

This will be R.E.M.'s second Bridge School appearance, as they played the 1998 concert.

The event was initiated in 1986 by Young and his wife Pegi, with all of the proceeds from the concert going to the Bridge School, a non-profit organization that helps individuals with severe speech and physical impairments.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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