Normaltown is a neighborhood in

Athens, Georgia Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the sta ...

, by the

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and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge

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in 1896.

Music

The Normaltown Flyers formed in the neighborhood in 1979.About
- Normaltown Flyers official website In the 1980s,

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in Normaltown was an early venue for bands such as

R.E.M. R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the first alternative ...

and

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; both it and the neighborhood are mentioned in the lyrics of the 1990 top forty hit "

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References

Neighborhoods in Athens, Georgia {{ClarkeCountyGA-geo-stub