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This week in 1989, the B-52’s single “Love Shack” peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #3 (November 18)
After the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985, the band went into a self imposed hiatus, but came together in 1988 to write the songs for the album “Cosmic Thing”, which Cindy Wilson described as a healing process for herself and the band.
“Love Shack” was one of the songs written by the band for the “Cosmic Thing” LP, and proved to be the B-52’s most commercially successful single, topping the charts in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, reaching #2 on the UK Singles Chart, #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (becoming their first Top 40 hit), and #5 on the Canada.
Rolling Stone named "Love Shack" the best single of 1989 and ranked it 246th on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song was also named one of the 365 Songs of the Century in 2001.
In the 1970s Kate Pierson lived in an old cabin with a tin roof located off the Atlanta Highway near Athens, Georgia, where the band conceived "Rock Lobster", amongst other songs.
It burned down in December 2004.
It was the inspiration for the song, along with a real club outside of Athens, Georgia, called the Hawaiian Ha-Le, where they would hang out.
The video, featuring a cameo from a pre-fame RuPaul in his first mainstream appearance, won the award for Best Group Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.
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