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Belinda Carlisle on punk, cocaine, body image and Buddhism: ‘I was born a little bit of a rebel’
Guardian ^ | Mon 28 Jun 2021 | Emine Saner

Posted on 07/03/2021 4:16:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: JMS; SamAdams76
Never part of the punk scene - they were the industry’s attempt to mainstream punk and were just a girl band. A sanitized version of the Runaways.

You don't know what you are talking about, and you have it backwards.

The Go-Go's started in January 1978, and developed a reputation in the Hollywood punk scene, and they opened for Madness and The Specials, and they were invited by both bands to tour in the U.K., which they spent the better part of 1980 doing.

They were around for over three years paying their dues, before they were signed to a recording contract. Their debut album did went to #1, despite not having been supported that much, or expected to do that well.

The Runaways were more like the female Monkees. They were helped from the start by music industry insider and Svengali Kim Fowley, who cowrote all but one of the songs o their first album. (Unlike on the Go-Go's debut) Because they were originated with a music industry insider, they had an album out in less than a year.

41 posted on 07/04/2021 12:06:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The Runaways basically ripped off Suzy Quatro.


42 posted on 07/04/2021 12:12:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I think The Runaways were trying to sell sex, which Suzi Quatro and the Go-Go’s weren’t. Not that they weren’t attractive.


43 posted on 07/04/2021 12:23:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I thought Suzy was hot as Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days.


44 posted on 07/04/2021 12:37:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Fruitcake lib

But looks good for her age....no question

Lives in Bangkok

Buddhist

GoGos in before

Warren Zevon

Joy Division....influencers and New Order

Iron Maiden.....

Brian Eno....

Sound garden

The Smiths

Tina Turner


45 posted on 07/04/2021 12:51:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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Oh look - an interview with Tim Burton....


46 posted on 07/04/2021 3:23:20 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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The Slits were a real punk girl group.

What about the Cycle Sluts From Hell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuNckmt7h8

47 posted on 07/04/2021 3:53:35 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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