10 Facts About Bill Berry

In 1995, Bill Berry suffered a cerebral aneurysm onstage and collapsed.

Bill Berry's departure made him the only member of the band to not remain with them during their entire run.

William Thomas Bill Berry was born on July 31,1958, in Duluth, Minnesota, the fifth child of Don and Anna Bill Berry.

At the age of three, Bill Berry moved with his family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where they would remain for the next seven years.

In 1972, the Berry family made their final move, to Macon, Georgia, just in time for Bill to start high school at Mount de Sales Academy.

Bill Berry made notable songwriting contributions, particularly for "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon", both from Automatic for the People.

Bill Berry recovered and rejoined the band, but left in October 1997, saying that he no longer had the drive or enjoyment level to be in the band, and that he wanted to not travel.

Bill Berry left the music business and became a farmer, working on his hay farm in Farmington, Georgia, near Athens in late 1997.

Bill Berry appeared in the 2020 Song Exploder documentary about the band's song "Losing My Religion", even playing part of his drum line from the song.

Bill Berry has a garden, but his caretaker looks after that.