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* LeadBassist: Kate Pierson played keyboard bass in the early days.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks : The band had a somewhat notorious issue with a former manager and label so have had to change their name on a couple of occasions. They were credited as "The BC-52's" for their recordings of "Meet The Flintstones" and "The Bedrock Twitch" that they did for The Flintstones movie soundtrack [[note]]which happened to tie in with the original Flintstones series using "rock" or stone-age-related puns for NoCelebritiesWereHarmed bit characters[[/note]], as the band and their name were held by Warner, but the soundtrack was recorded for MCA. Years later, they removed the apostrophe from their name so that they could release "Funplex" on Astralwerks.

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* WritingAroundTrademarks : WritingAroundTrademarks: The band had a somewhat notorious issue with a former manager and label so have had to change their name on a couple of occasions. They were credited as "The BC-52's" for their recordings of "Meet The Flintstones" and "The Bedrock Twitch" that they did for The Flintstones movie soundtrack [[note]]which happened to tie in with the original Flintstones series using "rock" or stone-age-related puns for NoCelebritiesWereHarmed bit characters[[/note]], as the band and their name were held by Warner, but the soundtrack was recorded for MCA. Years later, they removed the apostrophe from their name so that they could release "Funplex" on Astralwerks.
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* CampGay: All three men in the band are gay and had flamboyant costumes in the 70s and 80s.

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* CampGay: All three men in the band are gay and had flamboyant costumes in the 70s and 80s. However, Fred stands out in particular, especially during the 80s.

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-->--'''The B-52's''', "Rock Lobster"

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-->--'''The B-52's''', -->-- "Rock Lobster"



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* Kate provided her unmistakable vocals to the song "Let's Spend Half a Day" for ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.

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* The70s: Formed in '76, released their debut album in '79.
* The80s: This decade is when most of the band's noteworthy events happened: They garnered a cult following, their guitarist died, they went into seclusion, and then came back with "Love Shack."
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** "Debbie" is about Debbie Harry despite mentioning her "all girl rock band". Whilst Debbie Harry did have an all girl rock band in the pre-Music/{{Blondie}} days, Blondie themselves were predominantly male with her as the only woman.

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** "Debbie" is about Debbie Harry despite mentioning her "all girl rock band". Whilst Debbie Harry did have an all girl rock band in the pre-Music/{{Blondie}} pre-Music/{{Blondie|Band}} days, Blondie themselves were predominantly male with her as the only woman.



* TheEighties: This decade is when most of the band's noteworthy events happened: They garnered a cult following, their guitarist died, they went into seclusion, and then came back with "Love Shack."



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* TheSeventies: Formed in '76, released their debut album in '79.

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