#Kate Pierson

[davidhudson]

Happy 76th, Kate Pierson.

[bitter69uk]

“Later we [Culture Club] played with them a few times and they had the most unique, hypnotic sound. It’s trashy Americana, John Waters, Divine, the Shangri-La’s, high camp and bubblegum punk. The beat is everything. Fred always reminded me of Dr Zachary Smith from Lost in Space. I never thought about whether the B-52’s had a gay angle. They were just against rules in general – taking classic American kitsch and giving it a punk, space-age irreverence, like a beautiful car crash with pop surrealism. They were very camp but very funky: always on it, melodic but effortlessly free. It’s the sort of pop music that I want to hear.”

/ Boy George reflecting on the B-52’s in The Guardian /

Born on this day: happy 76th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52's - 1980s Polaroids

[1skittler1]

The B-52's 🖤

[twixnmix]

The B-52's photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz, 1983.

[nataliawoods]

[science70]

The B-52’s (from left: Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson and Kate Pierson) posing for what would later become the cover for their self-titled debut album, New York City, 1978.

Photography: George DuBose

[secretceremonies]

Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of The B-52's performimg at Zellerbach Auditorium on October 14, 1980

[music-polls]

Let them fight...

[cosmonautroger]

Kate Pierson, The B-52's

[mowing-blade]

Kate Pierson of The B-52s performing at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. November 7, 1980. Photographed by Ebet Roberts.

[legendarytragedynacho]

The B-52’s at CBGB, NYC, 1989

📷 by © Bob Gruen

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Kate Pierson of the B-52's by Lynn Goldsmith, 1982.

[twixnmix]

Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz, 1983.

[nataliawoods]

[undergroundrockpress]

The B52s / Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson, Kate Pierson.