Perfect Circle

An intimate account of R.E.M.’s rise, reinvention and farewell, exploring the paths that led one of America’s most admired bands to walk away on their own terms.


Tony Fletcher is the author of eleven books, including several bestselling music biographies on The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Keith Moon and more. As a teenager, he started a fanzine at school in London during the late 1970s: a compendium, The Best of Jamming!: Selections & Stories from the Fanzine that Grew Up 1977-86 , was published in late 2021 by Omnibus Press. Fletcher moved to New York City in the late 1980s, and to the Hudson Valley in the mid-2000s.