The Go-Go's Get Back Together
© Michele Morabito
The Go-Go's have come back together again for an actual studio album called God Bless The Go-Go's (their earlier reunions have been based on Greatest packages). It came out May 15, 2001 on Beyond Music/Universal and released in the USA and Canada.
The first single is "Unforgiven", co-written by Wiedlin, Caffey and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. According to Billboard the CD entered the charts at number 57.
Currently, the band, consisting of singer Belinda Carisle, guitarists Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin, bassist Kathy Valentine and drummer Gina Schock are touring the US, then rumored to be heading toward Europe in the fall with a swing to Asia in the winter. The tour is expected to last 18 months.
The promotion machine started back in March with TV appearances on Letterman, Leno and Conan O'Brian, Good Morning America and Rosie O'Donnell. The earlier reunions were based on the releases of Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's and Go-Go's Collection 2000 (to coincide with the BTM show).
To put this new studio CD in perspective, their last studio album was 1984's Talk Show that had the hit "Head Over Heels". Prior to that was Vacation from 1982 which spurned the title track, "Vacation" and their debut in 1981 entitled Beauty & The Beat with the hits "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat".
The Go-Go's had the privilege of one of the first commercially successful all-female groups. They were a bit West Coast punk meets New Wave pop. The band also lived the high life and all the excesses that come with it - drugs, trashed hotel rooms and groupies.
Originally named The Misfits in 1978, they changed their name and played small clubs in California. In 1979, the band recorded a demo and toured England, hoping for a record contract. The next year, the Go-Go's signed with IRS Records with Miles Copeland (brother of Stewart/manager of The Police, Sting and The Bangles).
The result was their debut Beauty & The Beat and it stayed at number 1 for over a month with their single "We Got the Beat" going to number 2. The next year came Vacation going Top Ten along with the title track. In 1984, the Go-Go's returned with Talk Show. It had the hit single "Head Over Heels" but never made gold.
The first single is "Unforgiven", co-written by Wiedlin, Caffey and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. According to Billboard the CD entered the charts at number 57.
Currently, the band, consisting of singer Belinda Carisle, guitarists Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin, bassist Kathy Valentine and drummer Gina Schock are touring the US, then rumored to be heading toward Europe in the fall with a swing to Asia in the winter. The tour is expected to last 18 months.
The promotion machine started back in March with TV appearances on Letterman, Leno and Conan O'Brian, Good Morning America and Rosie O'Donnell. The earlier reunions were based on the releases of Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's and Go-Go's Collection 2000 (to coincide with the BTM show).
To put this new studio CD in perspective, their last studio album was 1984's Talk Show that had the hit "Head Over Heels". Prior to that was Vacation from 1982 which spurned the title track, "Vacation" and their debut in 1981 entitled Beauty & The Beat with the hits "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat".
The Go-Go's had the privilege of one of the first commercially successful all-female groups. They were a bit West Coast punk meets New Wave pop. The band also lived the high life and all the excesses that come with it - drugs, trashed hotel rooms and groupies.
Originally named The Misfits in 1978, they changed their name and played small clubs in California. In 1979, the band recorded a demo and toured England, hoping for a record contract. The next year, the Go-Go's signed with IRS Records with Miles Copeland (brother of Stewart/manager of The Police, Sting and The Bangles).
The result was their debut Beauty & The Beat and it stayed at number 1 for over a month with their single "We Got the Beat" going to number 2. The next year came Vacation going Top Ten along with the title track. In 1984, the Go-Go's returned with Talk Show. It had the hit single "Head Over Heels" but never made gold.
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