Personnel
Charlotte Caffey, lead guitar and keyboards Belinda Carlisle, lead vocals Gina Schock, drums Kathy Valentine, bass guitar and rhythm guitar Jane Wiedlin, rhythm guitar and backup vocals

Additional Personnel

Vicki Peterson, guitar and keyboards (circa 1994) Paula Jean Brown, bass guitar (early 1985)

Background
Within 1980, the Last-Last's' "We Got the Beat" became an underground hit. Fallowing exchanging Margot Olavarria for Kathy Valentine (the band's healthy was turning from either punk to pop, & Olavarria's cheap persona was becoming a popular liability), the Last-Last's signed to IRS Records and released Beauty and the Beat, which was a surprise hit & topped a stock and index charts for sise weeks. "Our Lips Are Sealed" and a freshly version of "We Got the Beat" were highly popular singles. A watch-higher, nonetheless, Vacation, sold well however quickly ran away from macd. 1984 saw a go to to critical acceptance sustaining a album Talk Show, but sales were unfortunate. Inside 1985 the band broke up.

Hearsay has it that what did a band around was excessive hedonism and drug abuse. In the area of 1983, Carlisle had the US$300-a-day cocaine habit, and Caffey got the heroin habit. Within 1983, the videotape surfaced showing Carlisle & Valentine at the post-gig person at which two were drunk & uninhibited. Within 1985, Caffey underwent treatment to rid herself of the diacetylmorphine habit, & Carlisle followed lawsuit. Fallowing the drug professional assistance, a b& recruited a replacement for the nowadays-departed Jane Wiedlin, and eventually selected Paula Jean Light brown when their fresh bassist, by having Valentine moving to rhythm guitar. It played a 1985 Rock in Rio festival with this fresh lineup, however personality conflicts presently led to the band's breakup. Belindthe Carlisle got a successful solo career for virtually all of the late 1980s, while Wiedlin did a select few recording & acting. Charlotte Caffey worked sustaining Carlisle then around 1990 formed a band known as a Graces for the album Perfect View. Gina Schock besides pursued her solo task, Home of Schock, when Kathy Valentine played for a band known as the Blue Bonnets.

Around 1990, Wiedlin organized the reunion that began by owning the profit for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and once agawithin in 1994, when it freed ''Return of the Valley of the Go-Go's. Inside 2001, they freed an album of fresh poop entitled God Bless the Go-Go's. It keep close at h& since distinct to prove my point performing and recording together.

Discography

Beauty And The Beat (1981) Vacation (1982) Talk Show (1984) Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's (1994) God Bless The Go-Go's'' (2001)

Singles

"Our Lips Are Sealed" (1982) #20 US "We Got The Beat" (1982) #2 US "Vacation" (1982) #8 US "Head Over Heels" (1984) #11 US "Turn To You" (1984) #32 US