The first time I'd heard the B-52's, it was 1983's "Song For a Future Generation", the 3rd and final single off "Whammy". At the time a quintet, the B-52's were FM radio staples, and were like a family untio themselves.
In the video, the wigs make it hard to tell Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson apart. It was also, unfortunately, the last video to feature Cindy's brother, Ricky, who passed away from AIDS two years later.
Despite the band's success, singer Fred Schneider's solo effort, "Fred Schneider & The Shake Society", landed in cutout bins before the band's next album, but was later reissued as 1989's "Cosmic Thing" became a mainstream breakthrough.
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