Nearing 50 years, the B-52’s have no clear plans to stop despite former farewell tour

Three years ago, the B-52’s set out on what the group said would be its final farewell tour.

And yet, the group is still here — quirky tunes, bouffant hairdos and all.

“It’s hard to quit. It really is,” band member Cindy Wilson says via phone from her home in northeastern Florida. “Back (in 2022), it really didn’t feel like it was the goodbye tour. I think it’s starting to be more of a season of goodbye than it is an ultimate goodbye, you know?

“I don’t know how much longer we’ll be doing it. We could be doing it next year, too. It’s just a lot of fun.”

And fun has certainly been the hallmark of the B-52’s nearly 50 years as a band.

It came together in Athens, Georgia, in 1976 when Wilson and her older brother, Ricky, jammed with Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland and Kate Pierson at a