R.E.M.’s Buck Denies Inventing Pill Story

REM guitarist Peter Buck has said he was too “foggy” to explain he had taken a sleeping pill when arrested by police after an alleged drunken rampage. Buck said, “I was not lying. I was just trying to deal with a very difficult situation. I did not know exactly what was going through my mind at the time. I do not think I was too frightened to tell the truth.” Read more.