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Go-Go's Get Hall of Fame Induction

The Go-Go’s; Credit: Chris Cuffaro

This week saw Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s tell us that, “We were living in the moment. It was all about being cool on the scene. It was a girl’s club. Of course we’d joke around, wondering if we’d be rich and famous. But I think it was just about being cool on the scene, and being in a band because everybody else was. We never had a problem filling a club from the very beginning. Then, maybe the goals changed a bit. We wanted to do this for a living and have a career with this. So we may have taken it more seriously down the line. I think after we went to the UK and came back, and Gina joined the band, that was when we got really serious about having the Go-Go’s as a career.”

“I went to L.A. wanting to make it in the music business, and my template for bands were all career-long sustained careers,” added bassist Kathy Valentine. “Once we were successful, I couldn’t imagine giving it up or walking away. There wasn’t a Rock Hall to aspire to, but I certainly wanted to be in a band that would grow and evolve, album after album after album. That’s what I wanted. I didn’t want to break up in three years.”

 

 

 

 

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