The B52s Singer Cindy Wilson tells Story behind 80s party HIT Love Shack | Professor of Rock

In 1989, Georgia Alternative band the B52s had already seen a decade of ups and downs, they lost their guitarist Ricky Wilson to an aids related illness in 85 and at that point, commercially, the band had been in decline for years. With the album Cosmic Thing, everything changed. With two top3 singles including Love Shack and Roam, the B 52’s had a massive comeback as co-writer and co-founding member Cindy Wilson explains in our exclusive interview on the legendary party hit.

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n 1989, Georgia Alternative band the B52s had already seen a decade of ups and downs, they lost their guitarist Ricky Wilson to an aids related illness din 85 the band had been in decline for years. With the album cosmic thing, everything changed. Next the story of the bands big comeback with loveshack from co-founder Cindy Wilson
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The B52s burst on to the scene in the late 70s to much fanfare for their thrift shop aesthetic, a melting pot of kitsch and camp from the 50s and 60s, a completely fresh approach to pop and rock that fired up the outcasts and misfits. The band scorched the mainstream with songs like My Own Private Idaho, Rock Lobster, and Dance This Mess around. With interplay between quirky lead singer Fred Schneider, the perfectly strange and hypnotic vocals of Cindy Wilson and Kate Peirson and unusual guitar tunings of Ricky Wilson: this created a trademark sound that many copied but none could ever equal. As the B-52's made their way through the blockbuster 80s, they had a few singles enter the Hot 100 but they never completely crossed over. In 1985 the band performed in brazil at Rock in Rio, it was their biggest crowd ever and they felt the momentum beginning to build but they struggled to write new material/ The band members were all very close . They all lived together in a house and that closeness seemed to work against them. They began to write separately. Around this time guitarist Ricky Wilson had been suffering from AIDS, none of the other band members were aware of his diagnosis except for drummer Rod Strickland as he didn’t want anyone to worry about him, especially not his sister Cindy. Rick would succumb to an aids related disease on October 12 1985. He was only 32. When the band got back together to work on a new record, Drummer Rod Strickland showed the band that he had learned to play in Ricky’s Unique style and became the permanent guitarist from that point forward. The band’s next record was released in 1986, titled bouncing off the Satellites, Which was more of a mashup of solo efforts. It failed to make a long term impact, due to devastating loss of Ricky, the band didn’t promote or tour behind the album. After a hiatus the band regrouped and found their creative spark once again and composed the song that would become Cosmic Thing. Cosmic Thing was one of the greatest comebacks for any band in the 80s, armed with two top 3 singles, Love Shack and Roam, Cosmic thing went 4 X platinum and re established the band as the champions of modern New Wave.

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