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Since 2010, Mills has played with a rotating group of musicians for a series of concerts built around Big Star's seminal album, Third/Sister Lovers. Mills took a band selfie that he posted to Instagram and did a short interview about "breaking" the story On April 3, 2014, while performing with musical guest Joseph Arthur, Mills broke the news that David Letterman would be retiring in 2015. Mills also performs as part of singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur's band. Mills is a member, along with Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, and Linda Pitmon, of The Baseball Project. In 2012, Mills contributed piano playing to a Record Store Day single released by Drive-By Truckers member, Patterson Hood, in protest of a Walmart development being built in Athens, Georgia. Mills continues to write music and perform with friends on various projects. Mills described it as "31 wonderful years and the opportunity to end it on our own terms." The band had been talking about disbanding since 2008. Mills said there is no possibility of an R.E.M. In addition to providing backing vocals, he has also sung lead vocals on the songs "Texarkana", "Near Wild Heaven", The Clique cover "Superman" and The Troggs cover "Love is All Around". Mills is also responsible for the prominent backing vocal and harmony parts found within the band's back catalogue, with his vocal contributions arguably being most noticeable on 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant and 2008's Accelerate. In particular, R.E.M.'s 2004 album Around the Sun was heavily shaped by Mills' piano and keyboard contributions. Mills is credited with being the chief composer behind many of R.E.M.'s songs, including "Nightswimming", "Find the River", "At My Most Beautiful", "Why Not Smile", "Let Me In", "Wendell Gee", "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville", "Beat a Drum", "Be Mine" and "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?". Mills attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, which is where R.E.M. Early projects included the band Shadowfax (later called The Back Door Band). Mills and Berry started out in bands together. Mills met Bill Berry, who would later be his bandmate in R.E.M., in Macon. Michael Edward Mills was born in Orange County, California and moved to Macon, Georgia when he was 10 years old. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments. Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M.
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