The B-52's Pictures, Lyrics, Relationships, Biography, Discography, Videos, News, Ringtones

The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic. The five-piece group, which also included founding members Fred Schneider, guitarist Ricky Wilson (Cindy's older brother), and drummer Keith Strickland, formed in the mid-'70s after a drunken evening at a Chinese restaurant; the bandmembers had little or no previous musical experience, and performed...Read more

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• Time Capsule-songs For A Future Gen  (1998)
• Good Stuff  (1992)
• Party Mix/mesopotamia  (1991)
• Cosmic Thing  (1989)

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