Athens Andover

Athens Andover is a collaborative album between the Troggs and what was then three-quarters of R.E.M. Released in March 1992, the name of the album is derived from the hometowns of the two bands: Andover, Hampshire, in England, and Athens, Georgia, in the United States. The joining of forces was sparked by R.E.M.'s covering the Troggs' single "Love Is All Around" in live performances during promotion for the former's album Out of Time. One such performance, on the American radio show Rockline in April 1991, was released as a B-side on R.E.M.'s single "Radio Song". "We'd just done a show in a hotel, and as the lift door opened there was this crowd waiting for autographs and someone shouted out, 'What do you think of R.E.M. doing your record?'" explained Troggs frontman Reg Presley to Record Collector editor Peter Doggett. "Well, I hadn’t heard of R.E.M. But my manager had, so he suggested working with them on our new album. And when I listened to their records, I thought they weren’t far removed from what we were doing when we started. They invited me and Chris over to Athens to work with them for a week. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)