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‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Mojo Nixon plays ‘Debbie Gibson is Pregnant…’ — March 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Mojo Nixon plays ‘Debbie Gibson is Pregnant…’ — March 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we offer up this classic performance by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper of their 1989 single “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child,” the video for which MTV refused to play, apparently out of fear of offending the teen queen.

Mojo Nixon, Skid Roper reuniting for San Diego’s Adams Avenue Street Fair this fall

Mojo Nixon, Skid Roper reuniting for San Diego’s Adams Avenue Street Fair this fall

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper parted ways in 1989 after a string of unlikely MTV and college-rock radio hits — including “Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin,” “Elvis is Everywhere” and “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child” — but the rambunctious duo will reunite on stage in San Diego this fall.