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Go-Go's Say Goodbye


Carl

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I always thought that the Go-Go's were a very important group. They were authentic Punks, playing slimy clubs in L.A. sometimes dressed in garbage bags (I've seen the picture). Once they learned how to play, they conquered the Pop landscape but kept the Punk attitude, behaving a lot like Van Halen on the road, except with the genders reversed.

There was nothing like The Go-Go's, and they remain the standard for Pop girl bands who write their own songs.

In the '90s, they split up, but found themselves drifting back together on such a regular basis that they just kind of re-formed. Kind of like when you break up with a girl but after a certain amount of time off you start doing most of what you did before, but with more freedom. We learned a lot of this from a chat with our favorite Go-Go, Jane Wiedlin. Here's the farewell announcement:

After 30 years together and a slew of chart-topping songs that defined an era, the Go-Go’s announce Happily Ever After – The Farewell Tour. Happily Ever After kicks off July 7, 2010 at Lilith Fair in San Diego, wraps up July 27 in Austin, and will include a live television performance on Good Morning America, July 16 in New York City.

In 1981, the Go-Go’s delivered Beauty And The Beat hot on the heels of their debut U.S. single “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The album garnered double-platinum status, reaching number one and becoming the first to top the Billboard charts by an all-female band that wrote and performed their own songs. 1982’s Vacation and 1984’s Talk Show continued their chart and radio successes and cemented the Go-Go’s as one of the most iconic and beloved groups of the 80s. The Go-Go’s released a much-celebrated anthology, Return to the Valley of The Go-Go’s in 1994, and 2001 marked the last studio album of new material, God Bless The Go-Go’s

Their story truly is a punk version of the American Dream. They came, they saw and they conquered the charts and airwaves with their kicky kitsch and sparkling California appeal. Their smash hits, such as “We Got the Beat,” “Vacation,” “Head Over Heels,” and the aforementioned “Our Lips Are Sealed,” along with countless magazine covers, television performances, and high-profile concert tours, turned Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine into certified rock stars, and five feisty role models for generations of ready-to-rock girls. From their halcyon days as America's sweethearts to their current status as superstars who pioneered a genre, the Go-Go’s preside over an amazing three-decade reign as high priestesses of pop.

Today, with the original lineup intact, the Go-Go's live show continues to deliver every bit of the raw energy of their now-legendary punk beginnings, tempered with the wisdom of three decades of pop perfection. Don’t miss them on this farewell tour as they celebrate with, and say goodbye to, their devoted fans, before the Go-Go’s head into the happily ever after.

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I saw them a long time ago...at CBGB's and they weren't that good...3 years later I saw them and they were a lot better(guess they learned how to play the hard way)Music is a tough business and I think they toughed it out...

I also think Jane is cool

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  • 4 weeks later...

Sadly, the Go-Go's farewell tour has been canceled because Jane Wiedlin fell off a cliff. Really. She was hiking and fell like 20 feet, mangling her knees and requiring surgery.

Maybe the farewell tour will be next year.

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