#kate pierson

This could be Kate Pierson or Cindy Wilson. While most would expect a Fred Schneider, his silhouette didn’t cut as B-52 a shape as the ladies do with their big hair and accessories. While they really blasted off in 1989 with multiples hits, many forget their origins ten years earlier in 1979 with the likes of Rock Lobster which for that time was a pretty outrageous mainstream hit.

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The B-52′s photographed by Lynn Goldsmith in 1980

Iggy Pop is hungry.

Born on this day: happy 74th birthday to the fabulous Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948), one of the founding members of essential post-punk band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music! She also, of course, has exemplary taste in beehive wigs. (Pictured: Pierson in red wig, Wilson in pink wig in 1983).