{"product_id":"b-52s-cosmic-thing-the","title":"B-52s' Cosmic Thing, The","description":"The B-52s were always queer, though not overtly, and this book dissects the coded queer messaging in the B-52s music, using Cosmic Thing as a launching point. Alongside the authors own queer awakening, this book looks at what was obvious all along ? the B-52s aren''t just pop culture icons, they are queer history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe B-52s fifth record Cosmic Thing took the world by storm in 1989 in the wake of the band''s single greatest tragedy: losing guitarist Ricky Wilson to complications from AIDS in 1985. Cosmic Thing is a celebration of queer joy in the face of that seismic setback. Not only did the B-52s have to fight through their pain and grief to make Cosmic Thing, they were up against a conservative government under Reagan (then Bush), a misunderstood virus still ravaging the queer community and the expectations of what ''serious'' artists were supposed to look like.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456838467931,"sku":"9798765133125","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/b-52s-cosmic-thing-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}