The Go-Go's rose to fame during the early s. The band is the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts. The band's debut album, Beauty and the Beat , is considered one of the "cornerstone albums of US new wave " AllMusic , breaking barriers and paving the way for a host of other new American acts. When the album was released, it steadily climbed the Billboard chart, ultimately reaching No. The album sold over two million copies, [3] making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time, and the group was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards. The Go-Go's broke up in but reconvened several times through the s and beyond, recording new material and touring. Though the band's performances were billed as a farewell tour, the band remains active on an ad hoc basis. They were formed as a punk band and had roots in the L. After she became temporarily ill, she left the Germs before playing a gig. Charlotte Caffey lead guitar, keyboards, background vocals was added later in , and in the summer of , Gina Schock replaced Bello on drums.


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Driving around in a vintage convertible, splashing in a Beverly Hills fountain in the sunshine, they made you want to hang out with them AND be them. This was also the first album I bought with my own money, having walked down to the Wherehouse Music store on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley with my childhood friend, Jenny, and her older sister when I was nine years old. I felt very grown up cradling that album in my arms, with its slightly naughty, pink-and-blue cover depicting the five women wearing nothing but fluffy bath towels and creamy facial masks. They had no choice—they were women in the music business. Carlisle, the kittenish lead singer who went on to the biggest solo career, recalls growing up poor as the eldest of seven kids, and how her perky, cheerleader exterior disguised her inner punk-rock rage. Guitarist and keyboardist Caffey, who also wrote many of their hits, talks frankly about the raging heroin habit she successfully hid for years.
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And even when bouncing around the stage like a punk-rock pogo stick, Jane Wiedlin played her rhythm guitar with spellbinding ease. That all changed when the band's debut album Beauty and the Beat dropped during the summer of , mere weeks before MTV launched with the now-iconic video of the moon landing. The band stopped playing smoky clubs and began selling out arenas on a tour that doubled as a global victory lap around their critics - of which there were plenty. The energy bouncing off the recording suggests the band performed it roller-blading down the Santa Monica boardwalk. Beauty and the Beat remains the first and only album written and performed by an all-female band to hit 1, making their continued exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame all the more confounding. Belinda Carlisle was a Conejo Valley cheerleader when she first heard the album among other alternative records, most of them British imports, that offered a respite from the soft-rock anthems dominating California radio in the '70s.
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