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Leigh Carriage, Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University

Get out your glitter and head down the Atlanta Highway – the B-52s are setting out on their final dance party!

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After 45 years together the B-52’s have announced they are unplugging and de-wigging for their final US tour. “No one likes to throw a party more than we do, but after almost a half-century on the road, it’s time for one last blowout with our friends and family… our fans,” said Fred Schneider.

Who was to know that an impromptu jam session in 1976 in the American college town of Athens, Georgia, would be the foundation of a 45-year career?

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