Radio Free Europe 2025

This "benefit EP" was released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, established by the United States 75 years ago to broadcast news and information where a free press is either banned or under threat. Issued in a matte finish cover with an obi. Record housed in a printed inner sleeve with credits, photos and liner notes. The barcode is printed on the obi. All runout inscriptions are etched. Tracks A1 and A2 are previously unreleased. Track B3 title printed on the picture sleeve as "Wh. Tornado (From Cassette Set)" Duration times incorrectly printed on the record label for track B1 as "3:14" and track B2 as "3:40" [Obi:] RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty present R.E.M. Radio Free Europe 2025 Contains 2 previously unreleased remixes Proceeds to benefit Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an editorially independent nonpartisan and nonprofit 501(C)(3) corporation. [Back cover, labels and inner sleeve:] ℗&© 2025 R.E.M./Athens L.L.C. Under exclusive license to Craft Recordings. Made in U.S.A. [Inner sleeve:] Engineered by Mitch Easter @m-e-d-i-s-w-s-n-c- All Songs: Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe Night Garden Music, administered in our only world by Universal Music Publishing Group (SESAC) This page: Preparing balloons with leaflets at the Radio Free Europe base in Bavaria. Opposite page: Radio Free Europe and the Crusade for Freedom pamphlet. Cover: Operation Spotlight - A launch of propaganda balloons in 1955. Back cover: Glória, Radio Free Europe's transmitter station in Portugal. ©Radio Free Europe/Polish National Digital Archive/Blinken OSA/Hoover Institution Library