Bill Berry

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bill Berry
Occupation	Drummer
Date Of Birth	Jul 31, 1958(1958-07-31)
Age	66
Birthplace	Duluth
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Cancer

Bill Berry Biography

Bill Berry is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on July 31, 1958 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Drummer who retired after 17 years in the alternative rock group R.E.M.

The group was R.E.M. Alongside He was in R.E.M. With Michael Stipe..

William Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) is a retired American musician who was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Although best known for his solid, economical drumming style, Berry also played other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M. albums. After 17 years with the band, Berry left the music industry to become a farmer, and has since maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M. and appearing on other artists’ recordings.

In 1972, the Berry family made their final move, to Macon, Georgia, just in time for Bill to start high school at Mount de Sales Academy. It was there that he met bass guitarist Mike Mills, and they played together in several different bands, including Shadowfax. Their first attempt at a career in music was short-lived. He and Mills decided to make money by getting day jobs. They rented an apartment on Arlington Place in Macon and Bill landed a job at the Paragon booking agency next door.

He was married Mari Berry on March 22 in 1986, and then divorced her 11 years later. In 2003, he was blessed with Owen, his son. Owen and his partner Cybele.

Bill Berry Net Worth

Bill Berry is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Berry 's net worth $40 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at in the University of Georgia, intending to go to law school following graduation.

He quit performing with R.E.M. in the hope of pursuing the field of farming.

William Thomas Berry was born on July 31, 1958, in Duluth, Minnesota, the fifth child of Don and Anna Berry. At the age of three years, Berry moved with his family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where they would remain for the next seven years. In 1968, they were on the move again, this time to Sandusky, Ohio.

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Who is Bill Berry Dating?

According to our records, Bill Berry married to Mari Berry. As of December 1, 2023, Bill Berry’s is not dating anyone.

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On March 1, 1995, at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, Berry collapsed on stage during an R.E.M. show from a ruptured brain aneurysm. He recovered and rejoined the band, but left in October 1997, saying that he no longer had the drive or enjoyment level to be in the band, and that he wanted to not travel. He later explained on VH-1’s Behind The Music:

Facts & Trivia

Bill Ranked on the list of most popular Drummer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bill Berry celebrates birthday on July 31 of every year.

His musical activities after leaving R.E.M. have been sporadic, but did include recording for the Tourette Syndrome Charity Album Welcome Companions in 2000. On May 11, 2018, he performed at the Winterville Auditorium in Winterville, Georgia, as part of a quintet named Mayor Ferrelle and the Councilmen, formed by the band’s vocalist and lead guitarist, city mayor Dodd Ferrelle. The other three members were John Kean, David Barbe and Adam Poulin.

Why did R.E.M. drummer quit?

After careful consideration and lots of conversations with his bandmates, Berry decided it was time for him to redirect his focus to something other than music. The drummer, who had always been an early riser, decided to put his energy into his hay farm in Farmington, outside of Athens.

What does Bill Berry do now?

Berry retired from the band in 1997 after suffering a brain aneurysm onstage in 1995, and has since maintained a low profile, working as a farmer in Georgia. He occasionally played gigs with his old band, however, last performing with them in 2007 at R.E.M.’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Which member of R.E.M. had a brain tumor?

It was a Monster, all right.

Are R.E.M. still recording?

The band’s final album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March of this year. The band have plans to release a career-spanning greatest hits collection later this year, which will include a handful of new songs finished after the band completed Collapse Into Now.

Will R.E.M. play again?

R.E.M. fans, Michael Stipe doesn’t have encouraging news when it comes to ever seeing the seminal rock band ever together again. In a new interview for New York public radio station WNYC, Stipe was clear about his take on the future — or lack thereof — for R.E.M.: “ We will never reunite.”