The Go-Go's

[berrybearie]

niddlemiddle said:

I used to like them... I've never had a love for them.
However, I found it hysterical that they were basically the Motley Crue of the bubblegum pop, sect.
Who knew, they were sleeping around, raving alcoholics, and pill poppers?
Good times, good times.

Yeah, I read the authorized INXS bio (Story to Story) and apparently there was lots of rock 'n' roll life styling going on between the two bands.

[dwanollah]

chiqui said:

Well, they did come out of the glam rock sensibility. Some of the members even used to hang around Rodney Bingernheimer's English Disco in the mid 1970s. (I think it was Jane Weidlin who was interviewed for the Rodney doc The King of Sunset Strip.)

Another Rodney fan?! *squee!*

I adore them... especially "Lust to Love" and "This Town." And I caught Jane on The Surreal Life, and she's still cute as a button.

[scotlandpa]

dwanollah said:

I adore them... especially "Lust to Love" and "This Town." And I caught Jane on The Surreal Life, and she's still cute as a button.

Dwanollah, those were my favorites from the album too. And "How Much More" was also my favorite.

I was 13 years old when Beauty and The Beat came out and it was one of the first records I bought with my own money. I remember playing Beauty and The Beat on my record player. Yes, I said record player. I wore that piece of vinyl out.

[gimmeshelter]

I remember hearing the videotape on a local radio station and was really surprised that it was Belinda Carlisle. I had grown up hearing her solo stuff, but was unaware of the backstory.

I love "This Town" and "Vacation." But Talk Show is my favorite album by them.

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overrated

[chiqui]

Belinda Carlisle, who's married and living in France, has a new CD out, all in French. I'm itching to give it a listen even though I was never a big fan.

[groovethang]

Wow, she looks diffferent. I would never have recognized her; at least not from the picture accompanying that article.

[Wol]

Rodney Bingenheimer? I'm having such a flashback...

I remember the Go-Gos were dogged by rumors that The Specials played all the instruments on "We Got The Beat" and the girls learned to play for the tour. I don't know that I believe that. Oh, and anyone else remember the "other woman in the bathtub" urban legend about Kathy Valentine's photo on the back of the WGTB album?

Is Belinda still married to Morgan Mason? He was a big deal talent agent/indie film packager for many years. She's had lots of plastic surgery.

Charlotte Caffey went on to write and produce for other people (I read liner notes, am weird like that). She had a good album with her follow up band, The Graces, with a pre-"Bitch" Meredith Brooks.

[divasahm]

Kathy Valentine was recently featured on the cover of the Austin Chronicle
--it's a great article with a cute cover photo.

[ivy]

Belinda's solo career was better than anything the Go-Gos ever did, IMO. "Heaven Is a Place On Earth" is one of the best '80s songs!

The band tried to make a comeback about four (?) years ago and had a really good single called "Unforgiven" that never went anywhere.