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. >> reporter: mike mills, michael stipe, peter buck, and bill berry went into the studio to sing this of a stairwell and reading the lyric off a laptop. swimming." ♪ night swimming deserves quiet night ♪ >> reporter: which started with a mike mills melody. >> i started gooding around on the piano. michael heard it and loved it and said keep playing it. >> reporter: the track was laid down at criteria studio in miami on the same piano used for a classic. >> reporter: it's recorded on a leila piano which is not the best piano in the world, but the history of it is fantastic and it sounds great. >> reporter: led zeppelin's john paul jones arranged the strings for the song as he did for the album's biggest hit. ♪ everybody hurts sometimes >> reporter: "everybody hurts" won the band fou music awards. >> what this becomes is something you can't put on a shelf. that's yours and everybody's out there. >> reporter: the last song written for the album was "man on the moon." ♪ if you believe they put a man on the moon man on the moon ♪ >> the song was pretty much completed except for any singing