WEDDINGS BRING PEOPLE BACK TOGETHER

The two certainties about weddings is that someone will shag somebody they shouldn't, and that people who haven't seen each other in years will find themselves getting back together again and burying hatchets, and so on. We don't know who got the illicit shag at Dewitt Burton's wedding, but the reunion was his former employers'. He used to roadie for REM, and so Stipe, Mills, Buck and - yes - original drummer Bill Berry got back together for their first gig since Berry left in 1997. Apart from one other reunion. It seems to have been a little adhoc, too, with the band scampering onto the stage while the "proper" wedding band were on a break.

e bet they loved having to come back on after REM had finished.

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