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Damian Dovarganes / AP
The Go-Go's in Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday, from left, Kathy Valentine, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock and Jane Wiedlin.
The Go-Go's received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday and that got us thinking about the many years that have passed since, well, we had the beat.
The female new wavers got their start in the late '70s and scored a hit with their debut album, "Beauty and the Beat," in 1981. They released the follow-up, "Vacation," in 1982. Millions of album sales and 30-plus years later, let's say that star is well-deserved.
You can't listen to The Go-Go's and not smile and appreciate the joy of girl pop in the '80s. If this music isn't on a cassette tape somewhere in your house, at least go here ... and then go here. And Belinda Carlisle? Let's just crown her America's record-player sweetheart of our youth.
You know you danced like this. You Go-Go, girls.
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The Go-Go's, performing during a TV special in 1984, from left: Gina Schock, drums; Kathy Valentine, bass and lead guitar; Belinda Carlisle, lead vocals; Charlotte Caffey, keyboards; Jane Wiedlin, rhythm guitar.
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Wow, they got old!! Oops so did I, time sure flys by :)
I was going to say the same thing but then I realized that picture of the performance was 37 years ago! They are def in their mid to late 50's
27 years ago. Sheesh...don't make us THAT old yet!!!
Hey Joe, I just saw a photo of me from the same year... WE ALL got old !!
Haha, old is good. Older looks good on ME anyhow...
In that photo it looks like she is dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld. BTW, what do you mean "danced"? I still see white people dancing like this all the time!
Oldsters can still rock. For a modern take of a killer girl band, check out The Donnas on YouTube. Straight from PA to your ears.
From their current picture some of them look as if they are Gone Gone.
The photo isn't from a TV special, as the caption says - it is from their "Head Over Heels" video. Which kinda shows you just how much MTV I watched 30 years ago. Give this band and the Bangles props for good girl pop from decades past.
Ahhhhhhh how quickly the years Go-Go....
I heard the Go-Go's on the radio the other day and felt old when I remembered that I first heard them back in high school - 30 frickin years ago!
Belinda still looks beautiful! Love them
I got to this story just as the internet radio station started playing the Go Go's Head Over Heels.
This reminds of an old go gos joke, Why cant the Go Gos have children ?? Because thier "Lips our sealed".
Woah...!
Or , as Egg McMahon would say, "Hi-YOooooo!"
As a boomer I can guarantee that like The Monkees you will be dealing with The Go-Go's until either you or they pass from this mortal coil.
Like "The Monkees" You will be "dealing" with the G-G's until You shuffle off this mortal coil.
Some of them look as though they're Gone Gone? Are you kidding? These women are in their 50s and they look fabulous. Try checking Google Images for current pictures of their contemporaries, like Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran or Gary and Martin Kemp from Spandau Ballet and you'll see that these women are looking good. And anyway, what does looks have to do with it? They're being honored for their successful musical career they started in the early 1980s. Loads of 1980s-era rockers are no oil paintings today, but they still deserve recognition for their music. It must be sad being such a shallow git.
Excuse you, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes look good too. No one looks 23 when they're 50.
I love the Go-Gos! One of my favorite 80s bands. So happy for them! They deserve that star and they look Maaahvelous!
I was going to say "boy have they gotten old" then I realized I'm as old as them. That sucks. Still love their music much better than any crap that is out there today.
Umm... excuse me but has anyone taken a good look at the Rolling Stones lately? The remaining Beatles? Sure, they've gotten older but everyone has.... I detect a definite double standard here. Does anyone look the same as they did 15 years ago?
You're right! The "full body dry heave"!
Good Lord, Jane W looks like a transvestite nowdays!!
We saw the Go-Go's and B52's in Ohio this summer. It was a blast. The next morning, we saw and spoke with Jane in the lobby. She is very friendly and personable "off stage."
I recall driving 400 miles to see the Police and enjoyed the opening act - The Go-Go's way more. Wouldn't be surprised to see folks prefer Girl in a Coma (opening part of the tour) the same way. They rock.
Jesus Christ! Jane W. looks like something out of Andy Wahol's 'Trash' film......
She would probably take that as a compliment. Anyway it was a wig that she just wore for the day, not how she normally looks.
I'd say the Go Gos look about as good as one could expect of any group of former rock'n rollers now well on in their 40s or 50s.
But I have no desire to see them perform their old hits. Same for the Bangles, and any of the other big bands of the 70s, 80s & 90s.
What's done is done, and nothing seems sadder than a middle-aged person singing the songs of youth, which is what Rock'n Roll is all about.
If any of these acts from 20-years back has some new music, which relates to their lives now, I might be interested. But just hearing, say, Eddie Boom Boom Cannon sing 'Palisades Park" again, I wouldn't cross the street to hear that (or to see it).