The B-52’s were formed in 1976 when vocalist Cindy Wilson, her older brother and guitarist Ricky, organist and vocalist Kate Pierson, original drummer and percussionist Keith Strickland and cowbell player, poet and vocalist Fred Schneider played an impromptu musical jam session after sharing a tropical Flaming volcano drink at a Chinese restaurant in Athens, Georgia.

Other ideas they had to name their band were the “Tina-Trons” and “Felini’s Children”. When they first jammed, Strickland played guitar and Wilson played congas. The band’s name comes from a particular beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the aircraft of the same name.

Keith Strickland suggested the name after a dream he had had one night, of a band performing in a hotel lounge. In the dream he heard someone whisper in his ear that the name of the band was “the B-52s.”

We stock a fabulous B52’s band poster of their Australian Tour from 1980 that was designed by legendary photographer George DuBose.

Available in different sizes and printed on high quality 210gsm paper, you’ll find no unsightly pin holes, stains or creases. In fact it looks like it could have come straight off the press from the original print run.

Will look fantastic framed on your man cave, office, bar or living room wall.