The Go-Go's
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Audio interviews
The Go-Go's' Charlotte Caffey (1986)
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Rock's Backpages audio, 30 July 1986
The former Go-Go talks about the breakup of the band; about writing for and touring with the newly-solo Belinda Carlisle; about changes in her lifestyle in her 30s; and about how she was influenced by Debbie Harry and in turn influenced new women in pop. Plus she discovers that Belinda's solo album is in the Billboard charts with three bullets...
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Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Reveals All She Ever Wanted
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 27 March 2020
FOR KATHY Valentine, it was a Christmas gift that not only kept on giving, but in many ways came to define her life and music. ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 22 October 2007
THE GO-GO'S emerged from the late '70s Los Angeles punk/New Wave scene to become pop sensations and MTV darlings. They write their own songs, which ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Smash Hits, 23 January 1991
• She used to live in the untidiest house in Hollywood!• She plays music to her plants!• She's had about half an hour's holiday to ...
Interview by Charles Bermant, Unicorn Times, August 1984
Explicit Scenes of a Writer's Downfall ...
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 20 November 1982
The Go-Go's: Lyceum, London ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 19 May 1984
WEIRD HOW male listeners have to go through this whole process of Coming To Terms with the GoGos' musically simplistic, sentimentally sophisticated hybrid of high ...
The Go-Go's: Beauty And The Beat (I.R.S.)
Review by Don Snowden, New York Rocker, October 1981
THE DIFFICULT thing here is reconciling expectations based on long-time familiarity with the vinyl reality. For you, the Go-Go's are the all-female L.A. quintet behind ...
Interview by Don Snowden, New York Rocker, June 1980
THE GO-GO’S are a great rock ‘n’ roll band, pure and simple. ...
Up From The Street: The Story Of The L.A. Rock Revival
Overview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 June 1981
Rock & roll, being the proud music of America's young, has always had a happy association with the beginning of summer: no school, warm nights ...
L.A. Punk: California Screamin'
Retrospective by Don Waller, MOJO, July 2004
Ignored by the major labels, hounded by cops, fuelled by booze and drugs, L.A. punk was born in a concrete basement in Hollywood known as ...
The Go-Go's: The Beat And How To Get It (Again)
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 18 November 1994
"YOU LOOK FAMILIAR," Kathy Valentine says as she scavenges through the remains of what were once many bags of bagels. "We didn't have our way ...
Belinda Carlisle: Be Lovely, Be Lucky, Belinda
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, October 1986
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, Belinda Carlisle's life was everything it wasn't supposed to be. ...
The Police, Go-Go's: Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, April 1982
IT WASN'T the same seeing the Police at the Spectrum, Philadelphia's pro sports arena, as it was back at CBGB or even the midsize Palladium. ...
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1984
ON THE OCCASION of the release of their latest album, America's only rock 'n' roll magazine that bills itself as such asked for the two ...
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
INSIDE SPIT, amid cans of Tab and boxes of equipment sat the Go-Go's looking... well, miserable. ...
Review by Laura Fissinger, Musician, May 1984
CAR 'N' BAR dance bands area pop staple with a frequently short shelf life. One or two albums into some of these careers, then it's ...
Belinda Carlisle: From Go Go to Solo
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 22 November 1989
She's come through the live-fast, look-bad, almost die-young scene to a beautiful future. Belinda Carlisle tells Lucy O'Brien how she did it ...
The Go-Go's: I-Beam, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 20 September 1980
THEY BURST on stage as bubbly as cheap champagne with a resounding "pop". Their clothes are swinging teenage sixties, miniskirts and tights, Mary Quant boots ...
The Go-Go's: Squealin' With A Feelin'
Interview by Mark Williams, L.A. Weekly, 10 April 1980
IT HARDLY seems right that five diminutive females dwarfed behind guitars and drums would be showing the door to half of Southern California's elder statesmen ...
Profile and Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 21 January 1982
"THE WEIRD thing is we've sold nearly a million albums back home and about 20 in the UK," say the Go-Go's, sounding a little bemused ...
The Go-Go's: The Fab Femme Five
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, May 2002
Long before girl-band conveyor-belt pop and mainstream stardom for their mucky singer Belinda Carlisle, there was "the world's best female band" The Go-Go's. Meet the ...
Miles Copeland: "Make sure you write what a nasty S.O.B. I am"
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, March 1988
STING'S BRING On the Night was a big-budget home movie by a talented musician convinced that every breath he takes deserves to be documented. It ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1982
"ASK ANY TEN people in the popular recording field about female singers and nine of them will say, 'forget it, the percentage of girl singers ...
The Go-Go's: Go-Go's Of Your Dreams
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, December 1982
DEEP IN THE soul of every writer lies a secret: what does the writer do to avoid writing? I'll empty my brain pan now: I ...
The Go-Go's: Ready Steady Go-Go's
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 12 April 1980
GO-GO'S: 1. Bouncing entertainment; choreographed Happy Pill; females showing a hell of a lot for little reward. 2. Hollywood pink-punk band; all of the above ...
Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, November 1981
Makeup Secrets Of Five Wild & Crazy Girls ...
The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat (IRS)
Review by Toby Goldstein, Musician, November 1981
IT HASN'T been easy to be a fan of groups like the Raspberries during the past few years. What those minions of white-suited quartets and ...
see also Belinda Carlisle
see also Jane Wiedlin
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