The B-52's History Of - With the Wild Crowd mini documentary and live show on DVD

[@Smylexxia]

So pleased to see that these guys are still all comfortable with one another. A brilliant, unique band with such a distinctive sound.

[@flyingo]

I could sit and listen to these guys talk about their history and experiences for days on end. The B52s basically changed my life for the better back in the late 70s & 80s.

[@billbill5326]

Thanks for uploading this piece of history. I have been a fan of The B-52’s since almost their beginnings. I had a crush on Keith. Ricky was rather dreamy also.

[@herbyverstink]

THe B52's 1st album came out 45 years ago today- July 6th.. which happens to be my birthday.. i bought that album for my birthday on that day.. that album has a particular sentimental value for me needless to say...its also wonderful and original

[@rogersalles200]

These guys are Legend! with all the tools we have today no one can make music like it was made in the 70s,80s..these guys had to endure trying to make it in the business competing with many many great bands, jamming in the garage or anywhere is still the best receipt to create great music, original sounds,etc. God bless The B-52`s , one of the greatest of all time and I`m so greatfull to have grown up around that time.

[@RakNtaK]

As vidéo killed the vidéo stars,marketing killed Music…

[@theramplocal]

B52s are my spirit animal

[@skyraider1656]

My daughter now 47 and I still love to rock out to LOVE SHACK like we did while traveling back and forth to college.

[@broadcastdepth3686]

Thanks to all of you guys in the band and who produced them, you were a HUGE part of our lives, Growing up in Santa Barbara, We had our fingers on the pulse of Athens and watched you guys play in aTV STUDIO in Atlanta or something like that, and now, in 2024 I'm here playing music around Atlanta praying I run into you guys in the band sometime so I can thank you in person. again, you have been part of my life (our life) since 79' We love you soooo much.

[@djkullik4952]

I never knew any of this. My HS took a class trip to DC spring of 1980. Rock lobster was on the radio every 15 minutes. We were all instantly hooked. It was surreal and magical. That's when I fell in love with the B-52s. I'm so happy they sat down and were so open. An organic formation of a band created out of mutual friendship. It was meant to be.

[@missinglink9973]

I won Wild Planet at a grade 7 dance competition in 1982. That was my introduction to the B52s . Been a fan ever since !!

[@briedah7278]

I recall when I first heard Rock Lobster on the radio I was like instantly drawn into the new wave…I’m still surfing along at 67 years old still glad I got to experience all the bands of the 70s and 80s ❤ B52s saved every party I ever had!

[@wdamian]

As a teen listening formerly to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the late 70's, a DJ from KLOS in Los Angeles one evening put on Rock Lobster and my mind was blown.

[@loridoolaghty3453]

Me too at 62. I was listening all day yesterday and I realized that our generation had the best music. Pure lyrics with rocking beats. It should all be reintroduced to the youth of today. Who knows!

[@bryanfriend6094]

I first came on board as a fan when I heard the Whammy album. The previous few years, I had been gravitating toward the New Wave and College Radio movement. While serving in the Army in rhe mid80's, one of the guys in my platoon asked if I liked Southern Rock. I responded: "Yeah, I love the B-52's and R.E.M!" Thanks for posting, this was a blast!

[@fezzypepper8525]

I was listening to some 60's Spy Surf Rock recently when out of the blue it hit me...Rock Lobster is a direct descendant of that genre of music! The use of the low E-A electric guitar strings for the basic underlying melody, heavy use of tremelo, same drum beat and tempo...and on and on.

[@paulelliott3220]

Wonderful band and still looking great Wild Planet is brilliant

[@RobsRocketTimes]

Kate, can't say enough, she was my favorite. Great vocals and voice still listening to her now.

[@SageOftheSubway]

Oh, I still have a MAJOR crush on Kate Pierson!

[@fatbelly27]

They are all really lovely people and it's clear they really like each other

[@jenhasken]

They are so special and wonderful!

[@Maximill888]

I LOVE THE B-52’s! Thank you for sharing this fantastic video.

[@RakNtaK]

20 years ago my girlfriend told me sadly that Fred was dead…! I had thoughts for him several times BUT today is a special resurrection day as I notice he is still with us. so happy!!!!! Come to Paris 🙏

[@familycardcollectors6519]

Ricky the founding member and guitarist died sadly and was the end of the B-52's

[@FontaineDerby]

​@familycardcollectors6519 Ricky Wilson died on 12 October 1985. The B52s took 2 years off and returned in 1988 with the LP Bouncing Off Satellites, then Cosmic Thing in 1989. Love Shack went to No 1 in November 1989. Good Stuff in 1992 Ricky Wilson's death was not the end of the band.

[@rsoubiea]

I didn’t know who they were until Love Shack. I was hooked and researched past albums. Great band, so fun! ❤

[@kristopherdetar4346]

Thanks you for your amazing crazy songs and energy. Truly one of a kind gem of a band. Thank you again. 😅

[@theramplocal]

RIP Ricky, goat

[@wdamian]

Love the Lux shoutout! Y'all are top shelf!

[@tommybonachita6292]

They belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...it's ridiculous that they aren't.

[@e-mail881]

The ( ((Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)) ) doesn't mean SH*T!!! Only superficial ppl care about that bullsh*t.

[@martymcflyer8487]

Lost the Grammy win to Linda Ronstadt 🧐 after just rebounding from losing their founder to AIDS. Grammys are hopeless. RRHOF needs Devo and B52s. 🫤

[@ttomgast1769]

Unfucking unbelievable . They're not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ? They're the epitome of fun , probably the single greatest feature of rock n roll and how it is differentiated from other forms of music is FUN .

[@DouglasOwnbey]

They will be. They can't ignore what they were able to achieve.

[@kevinhuether9038]

No. The Rock and Roll HOF is ridiculous. A farce.

[@scottperine8027]

First time I heard from the B-52’s was in 1983 after a concert in Athens,I scored a t-shirt and a 45,wish that I stilled have them but I will always love the 52’s!!!

[@Italy55]

I saw that tour 🛸

[@jefferydowler4655]

This is my generation, even though I had long hair, an absolutely gorgeous dude. I was not a hippy because I work to jobs had guitars, drums, amplifiers, cloth, and my friends were hippies but had no direction, sad. But I had more fun than 10 people in their lifetime put together. I can relate to these guys, out house and all, so nice.

[@sensedata4908]

Seem like a real nice bunch as well as being the coolest and most exciting band ever.

[@Mia_Mayaa]

Kate you are awesome

[@peterderidder9922]

The ones who saw them life are lucky guys !😀

[@FranckShinkaretzky]

ça représente bcp de travail de garder le sourire. Longue vie au B52'S ma jeunesse en vinyle .

[@danalvear7977]

The B52's made rock and concerts a blast!

[@EmmettLBrown2015]

Love them!

[@danjryankee5]

Love their Hunan Chinese Restaurant shout-out which was an institution in Athens back in the day and that unfortunately closed a few years back - Miss that taste of my youth - Good times!!!

[@keithclifton392]

Loved learning more about one of my favorite bands ever!

[@bacchusdionysus7345]

One of the greatest bands period of any era or music type!

[@SBull10152]

That quick video in the old television!!....I was there at that show at The Great Southeastern Music Hall...it was about a week or two after the Sex Pistols and it was a Punk Rock Festival....the band had all their art school friends there dancing....probably about 20 to 30 people there tops...I was a Student at GA Tech at the time....they opened with Planet Claire and Fred played a toy piano....I thought they were quirky weird and fun!....totally original with a stripped down sound.

[@terrat3048]

Contrary to most fans' taste, the album Bouncing off The Satellites was the soundtrack to my life for many years. Also, the song Follow Your Bliss from Cosmic Thing is perfection - the equivalent of heaven on earth to me. Love, love, love the B52s.

[@josephdougherty3653]

They seem like genuine nice people im glad they were successful

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

to this day - coolest people on earth

[@boblarouve4037]

B 52 est un des rares groupes à avoir une identité sonore reconaissable . Ce groupe est juste mythique . un de mes groupes favoris c'est sûr !!!! 🙏🙏😊😊

[@garywheeler60]

Love Shak best video ever created

[@Italy55]

All the ups and downs of their individual lives blended into their future.

[@blessedbowmanmichelle]

Gogos and b 52 s ...my favorite

[@YTPewp]

Such an amazing band. Their energy and unique sound are unmatched! Not to mention......I always thought Cindy was kinda hot 😂

[@sparklemint2458]

LOVE 💖

[@destro513]

Thier punk years are bat shit insane

[@YippeeSkippie426]

The B&E strings were both tuned to B.

[@Fosco007]

Still trying to grasp the secret sauce that made this band a legend and still talking to each other as if it was yesterday. Usually Bands break up after a few years either due to Ego, Money considerations or exhausting programs Imposed by their producers. May-be the recipee is that they have always been making music for fun

[@RD2564]

This is such a great video, thanks for this. Further to the discussion around 24:00, the first album is the B-52's, that's what it ways on the cover, and it's brilliant. I like the first album the best, it's a classic.

[@cartmanrlsusall]

Cindy is gorgeous,,,and probably a space alien😂

[@rdzed3505]

Those eyes...

[@tommccarron324]

Very hot

[@jerryrichards8172]

Wow the guys sit like real men 😮❤ You just don't see that anymore

[@artyfartblast3289]

See you in the Lurve Shack, friends! ❤

[@maureendenham4942]

Seminole Ave band House for the 'Fans'! B-52' s truly amazing group. I was just 15. Russell KING the drummer, the love of my life. Anyway, The Fans FINALLY got a shot to make a record in NYC. BEGGING FOR A RIDE ALONG PROMISE THEY will never know😭☺️😊😊😂😂🤣

[@heathentown]

I ADORE GOOD STUFF just here to say that

[@heathentown]

HECK, I ADORE FUNPLEX So much as well!! I Saw y'all down at the Del Mar Racetrack, it was SO Great!

[@golderjames]

Love

[@Mark-ij2nh]

My brothers who are 12 years older than me saw them in Birmingham uk in the early 90s im jealous 😫

[@neilcurran1589]

If that was at Aston Villa leisure centre supported by Dodgy, I was there. B52s were absolutely brilliant, glad I got to see them.

[@majikmuzik8036]

Ricky and Cindy.

[@kevinbarrett9615]

I have several heat Wave posters, from there 80’s show in Toronto. I actually numbered all the tickets for that show on an old letterpress that I ran. Too bad l never went ☹️

[@hohohaha999]

Astralwerks!?!? Amazing!!!

[@acb9896]

"Where's your icebox?"

[@theoldar]

When will they finally be in the RRHF? It's a travesty that they aren't there.

[@Mr.Monster1313]

Kate is still a cutie 😊

[@braziliantvhd2768]

They really haven't changed much

[@islandbirdw]

These two ladies made the beehive hair style a thing!

[@BILLRANDO]

NO THEY DIDN'T, THE BEEHIVE HAIRDOO WAS POPULAR BACK IN THE 50S 60S, SO ASK YER SELF WHERE DID THE B52S GET THAT STYLE FROM? THEY SURE AS HELL DIDN'T CREATE IT.

[@finnmcginn9931]

​@user-ie1vn6dr5t there were women in my part of small-town Canada who were still rocking the beehive and bouffant when I was a kid in the late 70s,early 80s. They found what they liked in 1962 and stuck with it well into middle age. Good on em

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

Recorded the first album with no reverbs or anything? Interesting. I’d say that’s how they got known because their sound didn’t need a lot of work to sound good.

[@lcespin]

Disponibilizem a tradução em português

[@mevenstien]

✨️🙂✨️

[@marcelosobreira294]

Karahoukas Surf Saquarema 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎵🎧🌬🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪

[@roseanncamo9389]

Rock on rock lobster.

[@jose4carlos8vr]

🥳🌎🥳

[@strettoasino9006]

If you close your eyes and just listen.. Sounds like Simpsons character's...

[@travishugh-m5l]

I remember throwing paper cups of water at the next door neighbors roof when would go up on the roof to watch the bulldawgs throught the hedges. and Wendy-O would scare all of to death when she would cut the grass wearing nothing but a black tape bikini I would slip through her back yard and she would scream come here you little bas@@$ I don't know who told her that I was the one who would get some of her gas for my gokart. You it would all ways blow my mind as wild and crazy as she would act when she would chase me down the sidr walk, her and my mother would sit on the porch or go to the tea room and Wendy was intelligent smarter than you would think she was. And she would talk to my mother about her giving me to her ans then when ever my mother go to get something from kitchen she would threaten me for stealing her gas or that time I put grease all over here porches and steps her and some other just tour the world down and that time I found that lock and put it on the door of that shed Oh she was pist hell I was only 9, or ten. My dad owned some old houses all over the place and if he though you were going live in athens he would sale you a house. I remember my Dad seller a house to this Couple for $500 dollars, you know they still live in that house. It was crazy how people everyone had a garden in the back yard or people would buy everything and someone would work to cann everything out of the garden to put up to have food, My Mother had several houses and one of those house was one of them where you could look through the hedges and watch the foot ball game. I live downtown or if me and my brothers would go home to either my moms or dads it just determined how much trouble we were in. I could get a ride out to commerce road and watch wrestling or top head linners at the J&J center on 441 or the top bands of the local georgia bands at the Nightowl bar and longe, or bulldogs up there behind the athens bakery at the bar where there was no telling who might wakeup from a drunken comma. The first time I ever seen I think it was dwight yokom I don't know how to spell his name. But I remember he was wild as hell and could ring the hell out of his guitar. but he smelled like a rotten dumpter foull of whiskey bottles Oh remember the blue Restaurant the first veg restaurant and right up the street was the first Rcade I seen. And the DairBarn in Comer where I would get a brain freeze right before my straw would get stopped up with a strawberry. I should be ashame, hell I am ashame, I live in the stinking desert of arizona where the place is nothing but evil. I sure do miss my sweet sweet city of Athens, where the democrats would whip your ##@ for doing something and not being sweet and honest and straightup. And my home in Krawfort, Lexington. Man where turn I took to go so wrong? I sure hope to get back home before I die or I'll be lost for ever. Even the criminals had class there, and flowers smelled so good. I hope all the polliticians didn't screw up wonder land.

[@lennyvelez5929]

I think the reason this interview kinda falls flat and is kinda filled with tension and ackwardness is because these people have know each other for decades and their friendship is not one of being professional and suit and tie and coffee house discussions with each other...these people spent their days getting drunk, high, falling all over the floor, screaming partying etc...so to put them in this kind of situation is very weird for them. You can feel it. There should have been a moderator

[@WilliamDelorenzo-y9v]

if you are the only black or white or whatever in the room....so what

[@dwaynehutchinson3112]

@ DWAYNE. CARL. HUTCHINSON. I. LOVE. SONG. 606O842. THE. FLIP. SIDE. OF. SONG. ROCK. LOBSTER. ON. A. 45. WHO'S. THE. SHORT. RED. HAIRED. GUITARIST. ON. THE. ROCK. LOBSTER. VIDEO. IN. THE. TUBE

[@jimburchett]

if you would have told me in 1978 when i first heard them that 46 years later i'd still be listening, i would have said you're crazy. so weird became so fun so fast. decades of joy.

[@josephmythen3844]

You are correct sir/ 1978 you win ....what state?

[@michaeldavis9488]

@@josephmythen3844 The Peach state of Georgia (Athens to be exact). Weeeee!

[@lm4836]

I first heard Quiche Lorraine on the Dr Demento show in 1981, been a fan ever since. The soundtrack of my youth.

[@Willysaholic]

Saw them in the early 80’s in SF. One of the greatest bands ever!

[@lpd1snipe]

Thank you for posting this.

[@ManDom878]

NO ONE, NO BAND, EVER. Will be the same as the B52. Super underrated band. But I'm glad they are here!

[@DanielESmith-iz7lx]

This Gang is up there with Rush. Doing what they want. And refusing to not have fun with thier craft.

[@elfari100]

I saw them at the Bayou club in D.C. in 1979. We all knew we were listening to the the real deal-so much fun! At the break, Fred came up to me and asked me where I got the bowling shirt I was wearing. I gave them a list of local thrift stores. They invited me and my friends to a round of beers. Thanks again!!

[@LordMondegrene]

Planet Claire has pink air All the trees are red Nobody ever dies there Nobody has a head

[@davidames1746]

This Act was brilliantly conceived!

[@kristianTV1974]

Rock. Lobster. Amiga Forever!

[@shannonstrong5242]

Every time I hear about the B-52s or hear their music my mood is elevated. I’m so grateful that they got together to create such fun, weird, and joyful music that has made the world so much more enjoyable for so many people!

[@DaryllHurst]

I'm sooooo in love with Cindy. Good gracious. Ann Wilson from Heart and Cindy Wilson. Laminated list.

[@milkrecu]

Only in retrospect can it be told. When we’re living it , we’re sliding all over the place.

[@sufyanlowel4631]

Keith Strickland was my huge crush since 80's. And turns out my gaydar working just fine.

[@resurrectionsunday]

Love Fred

[@davidjazay9248]

How can one not love them?

[@Italy55]

They are from Planet Claire 🛸

[@blessedbowmanmichelle]

Love love the ,b 52 s....

[@Josh-m9h2s]

Not that it matters but i learned about 3 years ago that every member of the band is gay except the blond. I knew Fred was i had no idea about the others. And one more thing i want to know why is the guitarist featured on the ablum cover with the singers and the rest of band isn't. Thei always include him in interviews and everything else. There is a drummer keyboard player and a bass player so why r they not included

[@sufyanlowel4631]

Because 4 of them are B-52', the others just musicians, they are not in the band.

[@sufyanlowel4631]

Did you watch the documentary really? He is not 'just guitarist', all of them formed the band right from the very beginning.

[@ddwalker3744]

I don't have a favorite member prob Kate I guess but Ricky was absolutely incredible, RIP

[@salome767]

"Good Stuff" was my favorite!

[@Italy55]

and Dead Beat Club 💕💕💕💕

[@dropdog395]

I always though Ricky should have been buried in that cemetery next to Baldwin Hall. Oconee Hill is nice but so lonely.

[@annedixon2528]

B-52s are the sound of my youth-exhuberant and full of possibilities!! ❤❤❤

[@peterderidder9922]

its great ! it was written in the stars you all would met eachotter with 1 common goal..... making music together and became a big band in the 80ties and 90ties AND still afther all those years youre all remained a bunch of good friends. While a lot of music groups splitted up afther a few hits .... B52's FOR ever !

[@Italy55]

So unique and loved by many.