Tom Dunne: I'm starting a campaign to get REM to reform 

We'd all be shiny happy people if Michael Stipe and co would only get back together 
Tom Dunne: I'm starting a campaign to get REM to reform 

R.E.M - Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck - really should get back together. Picture: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty.

People sometimes make interventions to stop people doing things. Friends sometimes step in to try and stop someone doing something they deem harmful: drinking, drugging, death scrolling. It’s not unusual.

So, I wonder, could the opposite not also be done? Could you step in to try and get someone to start doing something that might be good for them. In short, could we somehow just make REM reform.

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