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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2002-02-14T11:20:52'
description: Twenty-five years ago today, the B-52's began to play.
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title: Tin roof, rusted.
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Twenty-five years ago today, at a house party just up the street from where I am now, five friends played a six-song set twice. The B-52's were born, [and Athens hasn't been the same since](http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/021402/roc_0214020052.shtml).