{"id":2851,"date":"2023-06-27T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2023-06-27T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:01:27","slug":"cosmic-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"A Little Old  Place Where We Can Get Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The B-52&#8217;s are an American band formed in 1976. This week in 1989 they released\u00a0<em>Cosmic Thing<\/em>, their mainstream breakthrough and their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson. The second single released from the album, <em>Love Shack<\/em>, is considered the band&#8217;s\u00a0signature song\u00a0and has been a concert staple since its release. Commercially, the single topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, reached number two on the\u00a0UK Singles Chart and number three on the US\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100. Rolling Stone\u00a0magazine named <em>Love Shack<\/em> the best single of 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The B-52&#039;s - Love Shack (Official Music Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SOryJvTAGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-52&#8217;s are an American band formed in 1976. This week in 1989 they released\u00a0Cosmic Thing, their mainstream breakthrough and their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson. The second single released from the album, Love Shack, is considered the band&#8217;s\u00a0signature song\u00a0and has been a concert staple since its release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-the-b-52s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}