Heck, scientists aren’t even sure how long lobsters can live in the first place.īefore now, we might never have been able know the age of our Rock Lobster. But where do we go from here? Unless your particular lobster was born and raised in captivity, there hasn’t traditionally been a very good way to guess how old any particular lobster might be. We know that Rock Lobster came out in 1978 but that the video was made in 1998.
Let us say that, in the interest of science, we really, really wanted to know the age of said lobster. The video for the world’s greatest lobster-themed new wave surf rock song, the B-52‘s hit Rock Lobster, kicks off with a lobster serving as a make-shift record needle.
