[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]The B-52′s[/lastfm] formed back in 1977 in Athen’s Georgia. Over the weekend they celebrated 35 years together back in their home town, with a huge anniversary show.

Steve Craig interviewed Fred Schneider:

Rolling Stone is reporting that the B-52′s performed in their home town nearly 35 years to the day that the band formed in 1977.

[photogallerylink id=87220 align=right]They started out at a Valentine’s day house party performing for 25 people, and never looked back.

Keith Strickland told Rolling Stone about the band’s first performance, “We weren’t really a band at the time, But Fred [Schneider, B-52's frontman] said we were, so then we had to be one, and we had to shore up some songs. I think we [ended up] with about six, which were ‘Rock Lobster,’ ‘Planet Claire,’ ‘Lava,’ ‘Killer Bees’ and ‘Strobe Light.”

The band has come full circle since that night, performing, about a mile and a half form the house that started it all, at Classic Center in downtown Athens over the reason.

Here was the band’s set list to their anniversary show:

• “Eyes Wide Open”
• “Mesopotamia”
• “Private Idaho”
• “Lava”
• “Give Me Back My Man”
• “Funplex”
• “Topaz”
• “Roam”
• “52 Girls”
• “Love in the Year 3000″
• “Too Much to Think About”
• “Hot Corner”
• “Pump”
• “Whammy Kiss”
• “Love Shack”
• “Planet Claire”
• “Party Out of Bounds”
• “Rock Lobster”

You can read the entire Rolling Stone article about the show HERE