@a_man_of_music3: Single released on October 16, 1984. "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" is the second and final single released by American rock band R.E.M. from their second studio album, Reckoning. The song failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Charts. The song was written by the band's bassist Mike Mills, though credited to all four members of R.E.M. Mills wrote the song as a plea to girlfriend Ingrid Schorr, asking her to not move to Rockville, Maryland, where her parents lived. Schorr, who later became a journalist, has expressed amusement at the many factual inaccuracies about her relationship with Mills and the song's origins that have circulated among R.E.M. fans over the years. Peter Buck has stated that the song was originally performed in a punk/thrashstyle, and that it was recorded for this single in its now more-familiar country-inspired arrangement as a joke aimed at R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs. Michael Stipe sings lead while Mills and Bill Berryprovide backing and harmony vocals on the album version, although Mills usually sings the lead vocal of "Rockville" during live performances. A live version of the song was released as the B-side to "Leaving New York" in 2004 and on R.E.M. Live in 2007. Twelve years after originally written, alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs included a cover version as the fourth track on their 1992 single "Candy Everybody Wants". Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #rem #dontgobacktorockville #1984 #fyp #fypシ゚

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