At an advanced moment in their careers Cindy and Kate just let their hair hang down and around that time the apostrophe disappeared from the band name (since then it’s The B-52s). Whether or not these events are somehow related we know not.Now on to the hairdo: the beehive wigs were occasionally also referred to as B-52’s because of a striking resemblance (beehive wearers, please bend the head sideways now) to the nose of the heavy B-52 bombers that were deployed in the middle of the previous century.
Counting as beehive devotees are the late Dusty Springfield, Marge Simpson and the late Amy Winehouse.
Active: 1976-now, USA
See also: Evergreen Terrace, Fall Out Boy, Jebediah and Jebus.
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During an island tour of I met Fred and the band and I asked about the origin of the name. They mentioned the crash in early 1968 of a B-52 carrying a nuclear bomb.
It crashed in Greenland near Thule AFB. The maiden flight of the B-52 was April 15 and 415 could spell "man". The man is gonna crash there they said. The crash site also helps explain the song "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland".
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