After signing with Island Records, the B-52’s make their live debut at London’s Lyceum Ballroom. The band would go on to reach the Billboard Hot 100 eight times and the UK Top 100 fourteen times. In 2008, they dropped the apostrophe in their name, with vocalist / keyboard player Kate Pierson explaining, “It was not grammatically correct. It’s not like a possessive. It just seemed superfluous.”

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The lady on the right definitely doesn’t have a cocaine problem.

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