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R.E.M. announced today its breaking up.  

It doesn't matter whether it's the Beatles 40 years ago or a band from this generation, the reactions are usually the same when an iconic band splits.  Why?  I'm no music expert but music provides the one link we have to a moment in our lives. Recall a piece of music, and you can live the moment.  It's the closest thing we have to time travel.

Music -- the right music -- can also speak our feelings we dare not speak, and allow a message to sink in we otherwise wouldn't hear.

And in the end, the world changes because of music. Maybe.

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