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The B-52's - Love Shack Video

Love Shack 

The B-52's - Roam - Video

Roam 

B-52s Rock Lobster Video

Rock Lobster 

 

               

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The B-52s

The B52's formed in Athens, Georgia, USA in 1976.

Original Line-up:
Kate Pierson (b. 27 April 1948, Weehawken, New Jersey, USA; organ/vocals)
Cindy Wilson (b. 28 February 1957, Athens, Georgia, USA; guitar/vocals)
Ricky Wilson (b. 19 March 1953, Athens, Georgia, USA d. 1986; guitar)
Fred Schneider (b. 1 July 1951, Newark, Georgia, USA; keyboards/vocals)
Keith Strickland (b. 26 October 1953, Athens, Georgia, USA; drums)
Julie Cruise (backing vocals).

Unfortunately, in 1986 one of the band members, Ricky Wilson (Cindy Wilson's older brother), died at the age of 32 from an aids-related illness.

  

Studio albums

Year Album U.S. UK AUS RIAA Certification[1]
1979 The B-52's 59 22 7 Platinum
1980 Wild Planet 18 18 12 Gold
1982 Mesopotamia 35 18 79 N/A
1983 Whammy! 29 33 97 Gold
1986 Bouncing off the Satellites 85 74 73 N/A
1989 Cosmic Thing 4 8 1 4x Multi-Platinum
1992 Good Stuff 16 8 36 Gold
2008 Funplex 11 73 93 N/A

 

The B-52's talk about Funplex

This video is from 2008 when the band made a comeback - after a 16 year absence - with their fantastic album Funplex. 


The B-52's in 1989

The B-52's stormed into the UK charts in 1989 with their upbeat hit single "Love Shack", followed by the platimum-selling album (Gold in the UK) "Cosmic Thing", which was their fifth studio album.

The success was partly due to using producer Don Was from eighties pop act "Was Not Was", who had a hit with "Walk The Dinosaur". He had managed to tighten-up the band's sound and make them more commercially viable.

The second single from the album, "Roam" was also a UK hit and was the only track to feature only Kate Pierson's and Cindy Wilson's vocals, without Fred Schneider.


    

Party Out Of Bounds

Party Out Of Bounds was a No.5 U.S. dance chart hit in 1980, and was taken from the B-52's second studio album Wild Planet. This video features the band live in Rio de Janeiro.



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