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For a band that announced its farewell tour three years ago, the B-52s are bidding quite the extensive goodbye. The ...
The B-52s played its first gig 40 years ago today, so here are 52 fun ... In addition to raucous rock band R.E.M, the B-52s are often ranked as one of the most popular bands to ever come out ...
Some of us are old enough to remember the first time the B-52s landed here, in 1980 at the UW HUB Auditorium. There were five of them then, when the band was led by Ricky Wilson, chief musician ...
The B-52s are back. The iconic 1980s band best known for the songs “Rock Lobster,” “Planet Claire,” “Roam,” and “Love Shack” ...
Though it was grammatically incorrect, it remained part of the band’s name until 2008. As the band worked on Funplex, they finally corrected the spelling faux-pas and have been The B-52s ever since.
Singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson haven’t worn beehive hairdos in years, but the B-52s are still as colorful on stage as they were a generation ago. “We do have some hair, I’m telling ...
In recent weeks, the B-52s bubbled up to the forefront of the internet's milestone-birthday-remembrance complex. Not only did the Athens, Georgia, band's 1992 LP "Good Stuff" turn 25 years old ...
Their offbeat style and subversive tunes made CBGB scenesters The B-52s a beloved party band -- and Reagan-era idols for a queer audience. Forty years on, the original members look back on a ...
Fifteen years after their last album of new material, The B-52s are wrapping up work on their next one. By The Associated Press Fifteen years after their last album of new material, The B-52s are ...
After over 40 years with the band, Schneider looks back on some of their most memorable tracks for the special issue — but the only thing just as wonderful as the B-52s’ rocking catalog is ...