“Everybody Hurts” also went over well in R.E.M.’s home country, going to No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. The commercial success was helped, maybe even overshadowed, by the song’s music video.

'Everybody Hurts' was the fourth single off R.E.M.'s multiplatinum 'Automatic for the People,' which the band released on Oct. 5, 1992.

Legendary soul singer turned pastor Al Green has covered R.E.M.'s 1992 classic Everybody Hurts.Green, who preaches at the Full Gospel Tabernacle church in Memphis, TN, gives the song a typically ...

I saw REM live later that year, and hearing them play Everybody Hurts, with 100,000 other voices in the crowd remains a very special memory to me. Helen, London I am not surprised Simon Cowell thought ...

Everybody Hurts is not a typical REM song. For one thing, you can make out all of singer-songwriter Michael Stipe's words. More importantly, it's immediately obvious what they mean: don't give up.