I suddenly heard 'Rock Lobster' by the B-52's for the first time. That riff ended up being the now-famous opening to 'Rock Lobster.' John Lennon and Yoko Onoįred Schneider had already written a poem about rock lobsters (also known as crayfish) after seeing an abstract slideshow of them at a disco in Atlanta.Ĭindy Wilson says she and Pierson 'were doing our interpretive vocals, you know, fish noises' to Schneider's words. 'I said: 'What? What are you doing?' And he says: 'I just made up the stupidest riff there ever was.'' 'I came home one day, and Ricky was just working on his guitar, and he was just laughing to himself,' recalls Cindy Wilson. At that point the band was already working on their music. Upon their return, the Wilson siblings bought a little house together. Ricky Wilson and Strickland had been hitchhiking across Europe, because, as Wilson says, 'you know, they were young guys, that's what you did back then.'

The B-52s perform at the 10th Annual TV Land Awards in New York on April 14, 2012. In fact, it helped relaunch Lennon's career. Wilson explains that the song was influenced by the music of Yoko Ono, but 'Rock Lobster' turned out to be an inspiration for Ono and her husband, John Lennon. She says she's thankful to be in a band that makes people happy, 'and 'Rock Lobster' seems to do that.' 'It was a cool song but nobody had any idea that it would last that long or be part of American culture,' Wilson tells Day 6 host Brent Bambury, with a tone of awe in her voice. The band was quirky and loud, singers Wilson and Kate Pierson had big, bouffant hairstyles - and they were a lot of fun. The song was released in April of 1978 on a now-defunct independent label, and it was picked up by Warner Bros. It was a cool song but nobody had any idea that it would last that long or be part of American culture.

'Rock Lobster,' the first single ever released by the self-described 'tacky little dance band' from Athens, Ga., quickly launched the B-52s into music stardom. 'That's when we knew something was happening because there was a line around the block,' laughs his sister Cindy Wilson, who is also one of the band's singers.

When the B-52s played their first show in New York City following the release of 'Rock Lobster,' guitarist Ricky Wilson looked out the concert hall window and turned white.

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