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    The B-52’s’ Fred Schneider on RuPaul’s Pre-Fame ‘Love Shack’ Cameo: ‘He Got the Line-Dance Going!’

    Long before he was the Supermodel of the World or the Emmy-winning host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a young Atlanta drag queen named RuPaul Charles got his first big mainstream break in the 1989 music video for “Love Shack,” by fellow out-of-bounds Georgians the B-52’s. Wearin’ next to nothin’ (or, more specifically, a lavender halter/hot pants matching set and massive Afro wig), ‘cause it was hot as an oven, RuPaul shook his cosmic thing, danced this mess around, and busted out some supremely funky