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Look up famous famous starbucks drinks Wiktionary, the free dictionary. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Ricky Wilson, Keith Strickland and Cindy Wilson in 1980.
After 46 years, the Athens originals are taking off for good later this year. Last modified on Fri 13 Jan 2023 21. What other band has three great lead singers? Nobody can do what Fred Schneider does.
I remember listening to Give Me Back My Man, and the quality of their voices was so strong and so powerful. Ricky passing of Aids was such a loss to the musical community that was never fully acknowledged. Ricky and Keith were the primary songwriters at the beginning, and just so obsessed with music. B-52’s are one of the biggest influences on every independent band that I’ve ever met. I guess because they assume all electronic music is the B-52’s. It was so funny, because they were booing us, but we were like: Oh my God, they think we sound like the B-52’s!
Who on earth sings about a Rock Lobster? The B-52’s and Talking Heads always felt like Devo’s kindred spirits. We were all unique and not very punk. The punks didn’t like us because we weren’t orthodox, and orthodoxy permeates rock’n’roll. We’d first become aware of the B-52’s through independent record stores when we were hawking our debut single.
It was exciting because I knew where they were coming from, how they were grabbing from 1960s kitsch with the beehive hairdos and the theatricality of it all. It was outsider stuff with a distinctive sound that was consciously slightly retro, coming from surf music and rockabilly, but not with rockabilly beats. They’d come up through the Athens, Georgia, scene and dance clubs and were in the realm of LGBTQ before such a thing was identified. They were transgressive and polarising, but in a different way to Devo.
I met Kate at the Mudd Club in New York in early 79 and immediately fell for her. We in Talking Heads became friends with the B-52’s early on. The Athens, Georgia bands were all very supportive of one another, it seemed to me. I produced an album with the B-52’s which ended up as an EP . I suspect they came to me because they wanted to experiment a little bit more.
My favourite song from that record was Deep Sleep, which sounded like Young Marble Giants gone psychedelic. Ricky Wilson, who was such a large part of their sound, had Aids at that time, and was not around for many of the sessions. I was aged 12 when Love Shack came out . It was everywhere and was a game-changer for me. It was the first time I’d heard a gay man in music.
