Instruments: Vibrating Vocal Chords

Fave Live Performers: David Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Talking Heads, Culture Club, Police, Tina Turner, Sex Pistols, James Brown

Musical Influences: Rolling Stones, Petula Clark, Lulu, The Mamas & The Papas, Marvin Gaye, Beatles, Dave Clark Five

Fave Books: Season Of The Witch, Elizabeth Taylor's bio

Fave Flicks: American Werewolf, Road Warrior, The Mask (in 3D)

Fave TV Shows: Dick Van Dyke Show, Please Don't Eat The Daisies, All My Children, Life On Earth

Likes: Fedrico Garcia Lorca, manners, impetuosity, coffee, beer, roller coasters

Peeves: Racists, dirty laundry

Gig before becoming a B-52: Waitress in a luncheonette

High point in career: Appearing on Guilding Light

Instruments: Vocals, Keyboards

Fave Live Performers: James Brown, Tina Turner, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, John Cage, Captain Beefheart

Musical Influences: Nina Rota, Dusty Springfield, Astrid Gilberto, Mississippi John Hurt, Yma Sumac, Carla Thomas

Fave Books: The Second Sex, Pit Stop Nympho, The Left Handed Woman, The Wild Palms, anything by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers

Fave Flicks: Pipi Longstockings, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill, Stevie, Medea, Night of the Hunter

Fave TV Shows: All My Children, Dynasty, Life on Earth, The Nature of Things, Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Likes: Delicious vegetables, corn tortillas, camping, nature walks, cats, goats, birds, thrift shopping, nautilus machines.

Peeves: Furs, meat, nuclear power plants, chemical waste dumps, big poodles

Gig before becoming a B-52: Paste-up artist for a newspaper

High point in career: Appearing on Guiding Light

Instruments: Vocals and Toy Piano

Fave Live Performers: James Brown, Talking Heads, Dora's Dancing Gorilla

Musical Influences: Bad ones and opera

Fave Books: A Nest of Ninnies, Aku-Aku, The Jayne Mansfield Story

Fave Flicks: Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill, Horror At Beach Party, Hold That Ghost

Fave TV Shows: The Groucho Show, Soupy Sales, Jeopardy, I Married Joan, Beaulah

Likes: Pastas, interesting people, a clean environment, non-fiction, Lionel Trains, Japanese food

Peeves: Having a bad time, the present administration in Washington, patchwork fur coats, pollution, loud music

Gig before becoming a B-52: Referee for female mud wrestling

High point in career: Flying 40,000 feet over the North Pole and being nominated for 49 Grammies

Instruments: Guitar and Vocals

Fave Live Performers: Mel Gibson, Laurie Anderson, Klaus Nomi, Grace Jones, Cole Porter

Musical Influences: Children's records, The Mamas & The Papas, Escarita & The Voola

Fave Books: Mexican Regional Cooking, Instruction For Angels

Fave Flicks: Road Warrior, Female Trouble, Pipi Longstocking, Shaft

Fave TV Shows: Little Rascals, Life On Earth, Square Pegs, That Girl, Your Program of Programs

Likes: Happiness, sunshine, good things and flowers

Peeves: Fur coats on humans, fish, the color red

Gig before becoming a B-52: Ticket agent at bus station

High point in career: Appearing on Guiding Light

Instruments: Drums, Keyboard, Guitar

Fave Live Performers: Laurie Anderson, Mick Jagger, Little Richard, Captain Beefheart

Musical Influences: Beach Boys, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Ruby & The Romantics, Kraftwerk, Sun Ra

Fave Books: Whistling Girl, How To Become A Virgin, The Scientist

Fave Flicks: Road Warrior, Raging Bull, Juliet of the Spirits

Fave TV Shows: Laugh-In, Mary Hartman, Little Rascals, Gong Show, I Love Lucy, The Tonight Show, Soul Train

Likes: Watching the sunset in a tropical paradise, magnolia blossoms, sleep, dancing, swimming, Mexican food

Peeves: Subways at rush hour, flat tires, greed, fur coats, nuclear power plants, KKK, police states, killers on the loose

Gig before becoming a B-52: Busboy, bus porter, deadbeat

High point in career: Appearing on Guiding Light