A new Showtime documentary captures the rise and fall of punk-pop legends The Go-Go's (officialgogos). Read our review:
Success in artistic fields is subjective, but The Go-Go’s were successful in an unprecedented way. The L.A. punk-turned-pop band were the first all-female group to write their own songs and play their own instruments on a Billboard number one album. They achieved this feat with 1981’s, and no other all-female band has done it since. This may be an indictment of the industry and listeners at large, who are perhaps still unwilling to take a group of women seriously.
Before they topped the charts and were introduced by Dan Aykroyd at the MTV VMAs as “one of the greatest all-girl groups of all time,” they had to put in their dues. After a number of self-described “crappy” early rehearsals, they began to improve, later becoming the house band at The Whisky, which got them support slots for two U.K. ska behemoths The Specials and Madness.
Though each band member was a drug user, it started to get ugly when guitarist Charlotte Caffey became addicted to heroin. Then came the publishing disputes, touring exhaustion and lack of communication, which essentially spelled the end of the band after three albums. Guitarist Jane Wiedlin said of the time, “There would be a lot of questions about what our relationship with each other was like. [Wiedlin mimicking] ‘Oh we love each other. We’re like sisters.
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