Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63.
Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, socially conscious “Ghost Town,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. singles charts in 1981. The song was a commentary on economic strife in Margaret Thatcher’s England and the social unrest of the era, including riots that year in Britain. It was named “Single of the Year” by all three of the major UK music magazines.
The Specials were formed in the late ’70s by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Hall shortly after the band’s formation. They were at the vanguard of the the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain,...
Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, socially conscious “Ghost Town,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. singles charts in 1981. The song was a commentary on economic strife in Margaret Thatcher’s England and the social unrest of the era, including riots that year in Britain. It was named “Single of the Year” by all three of the major UK music magazines.
The Specials were formed in the late ’70s by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Hall shortly after the band’s formation. They were at the vanguard of the the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
The Go-Go’s have been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ever since their debut LP, Beauty and the Beat, turned 25 in 2006. But they didn’t even appear on a ballot until this year. “I think there was a lot of misogyny within the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a long, long time,” lead singer Belinda Carlisle recently told Vulture. “Just by the ratio of men to women in it, that really says it all.”
But once voters were finally given the option of choosing the Go-Go’s this year,...
But once voters were finally given the option of choosing the Go-Go’s this year,...
- 5/12/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner and Jay-Z are among the 16 artists now eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the 2021 ceremony. The complete list was released on Wednesday. Voters will decide the inductees in May for a ceremony to be held this autumn.
An artist first becomes eligible 25 years after a recording is released. Many of this year’s contenders have been eligible far longer than that: Kate Bush, Devo, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Chaka Khan, Carole King (already inducted as a writer), LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner (already inducted with Ike and Tina Turner group) and Dionne Warwick. First-timers on the ballot also include Mary J. Blige and Fela Kuti.
We asked you in a recent poll which overlooked band was your top choice to finally be inducted. The Go-Go’s won that poll.
An artist first becomes eligible 25 years after a recording is released. Many of this year’s contenders have been eligible far longer than that: Kate Bush, Devo, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Chaka Khan, Carole King (already inducted as a writer), LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner (already inducted with Ike and Tina Turner group) and Dionne Warwick. First-timers on the ballot also include Mary J. Blige and Fela Kuti.
We asked you in a recent poll which overlooked band was your top choice to finally be inducted. The Go-Go’s won that poll.
- 2/10/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Go-Go’s are releasing their documentary of the same name this coming winter, featuring interviews with Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin. Part of the film focuses on the band’s efforts to write a new song, “Club Zero,” about female empowerment — and they dropped the video for the track Friday.
Directed by Alison Ellwood, the documentary first premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival before airing on Showtime during the summer, when the Covid-19 pandemic made a wide theatrical release out of the question.
Directed by Alison Ellwood, the documentary first premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival before airing on Showtime during the summer, when the Covid-19 pandemic made a wide theatrical release out of the question.
- 11/20/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Although they’ve never really been seriously considered by official voters, The Go-Go’s are your favorites for 2021 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They received 20% of the vote in our recent poll asking which snubbed band most deserves to be chosen to be inducted. Melissa Etheridge was tops in our separate poll about overlooked female artists. Look out for our poll featuring male artists soon.
The all-female group from the 1980s originally was started by Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Elissa Bello and Margot Olavarria. Other members who would most likely receive induction would be Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Paula Jean Brown. They beat out Duran Duran with 13% and The B-52’s with 11%.
At the delayed 2020 induction ceremony for the Hof, bands Depeche Mode, Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and T-Rex are finally getting their due.
Here were the 12 bands in our poll with...
The all-female group from the 1980s originally was started by Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Elissa Bello and Margot Olavarria. Other members who would most likely receive induction would be Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Paula Jean Brown. They beat out Duran Duran with 13% and The B-52’s with 11%.
At the delayed 2020 induction ceremony for the Hof, bands Depeche Mode, Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and T-Rex are finally getting their due.
Here were the 12 bands in our poll with...
- 10/12/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Go-Go’s aren’t in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a fact repeated quite a few times in Alison Ellwood’s documentary on the titular band, and “The Go-Go’s” doesn’t just lift the veil on the Los Angeles punk band-turned-pop goddesses but also attempts to cast an eye on the misogyny of a music industry that hasn’t given the band their due. “The Go-Go’s” lit the world on fire, and while Ellwood’s documentary might not do the same thing, it’s a great crash course.
Ellwood’s name, frankly, is worth the Showtime subscription in itself. She helmed the utterly brilliant documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene for Epix earlier this year, and if you saw that, then it’s hard to avoid comparisons with “The Go-Go’s” despite the fact the two very different musical stylings. Elwood brings...
Ellwood’s name, frankly, is worth the Showtime subscription in itself. She helmed the utterly brilliant documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene for Epix earlier this year, and if you saw that, then it’s hard to avoid comparisons with “The Go-Go’s” despite the fact the two very different musical stylings. Elwood brings...
- 7/31/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
This review originally ran in January as part of our Sundance Film Festival 2020 coverage.
Even if you’ve seen the footage before, in L.A. punk docs and Vh-1 specials, it’s still thrilling to watch: Five women on stage, their outfits resembling a day-glo mix of thrift-store chic and a temper tantrum’s aftermath, two different kinds of eyeshadow and smeared streaks of rouge fighting for dominance, bashing out crude anthems at the Masque Club. “They played three songs, and two of them were the same song,” one witness remembers about that gig.
Even if you’ve seen the footage before, in L.A. punk docs and Vh-1 specials, it’s still thrilling to watch: Five women on stage, their outfits resembling a day-glo mix of thrift-store chic and a temper tantrum’s aftermath, two different kinds of eyeshadow and smeared streaks of rouge fighting for dominance, bashing out crude anthems at the Masque Club. “They played three songs, and two of them were the same song,” one witness remembers about that gig.
- 7/31/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Do not ask the Go-Go’s what they thought of their infamous 1997 episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. They did not like it.
“We really were unhappy,” frontwoman Belinda Carlisle says. “It dwelled more on the darker moments and all the negative stuff. We were kind of embarrassed and very, very disappointed.”
“We felt like that representation of us was really salacious,” guitarist and singer Jane Wiedlin says. “But it’s not like VH1 treated us any different than anyone else. I’m 100 percent convinced they had a template: the rise,...
“We really were unhappy,” frontwoman Belinda Carlisle says. “It dwelled more on the darker moments and all the negative stuff. We were kind of embarrassed and very, very disappointed.”
“We felt like that representation of us was really salacious,” guitarist and singer Jane Wiedlin says. “But it’s not like VH1 treated us any different than anyone else. I’m 100 percent convinced they had a template: the rise,...
- 7/30/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When the Los Angeles based band the Go-Go’s was at the top of the rock world in the 1980s, there were easy labels to describe the five young women who were the first all-female band to play their own instruments, write their own songs and hit No. 1 on the charts.
“They would always describe us as cute, bubbly and effervescent,” lead singer Belinda Carlisle said at theWrap’s studio at Sundance Film Festival, where director Alison Ellwood’s documentary “The Go-Go’s” premiered in January. “It was very superficial and it didn’t describe who we really are.”
“It’s such a ready-made hook,” bassist Kathy Valentine added. “It fits into the general myth of Cinderella and Prince Charming. We were Cinderella and the public was Prince Charming, and they just embraced the myth of this scrappy little band. It fit with the archetypes — the gender boxes, I like to call them.
“They would always describe us as cute, bubbly and effervescent,” lead singer Belinda Carlisle said at theWrap’s studio at Sundance Film Festival, where director Alison Ellwood’s documentary “The Go-Go’s” premiered in January. “It was very superficial and it didn’t describe who we really are.”
“It’s such a ready-made hook,” bassist Kathy Valentine added. “It fits into the general myth of Cinderella and Prince Charming. We were Cinderella and the public was Prince Charming, and they just embraced the myth of this scrappy little band. It fit with the archetypes — the gender boxes, I like to call them.
- 7/27/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Go-Gos’ lips are very unsealed, thankfully, in the documentary named after the band that debuts on Showtime July 31. It’ll be all the reunion that anyone gets for now: a brief summer tour that was announced when the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January is, of course, on hold until Go-Go music can safely make the world dance again. But the film from director Alison Ellwood (“Laurel Canyon”) will be a happy — if occasionally harrowing — occasion for fans of a band that has remained intermittently intact since “We Got the Beat” took the world by storm 40 years ago.
Variety spoke individually with all five members of the group about the film, their place in history and the perennial subject of why they aren’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — something Ellwood’s film might finally joyfully cajole certain committees into making happen.
Variety spoke individually with all five members of the group about the film, their place in history and the perennial subject of why they aren’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — something Ellwood’s film might finally joyfully cajole certain committees into making happen.
- 7/24/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
"People would freak out when we played." Showtime has unveiled the first official trailer for another music history, rock doc titled The Go-Go's, a film entirely about the history of the all-women punk band The Go-Go's. It takes a look into the success of the Go-Go's. The Go-Go's were formed in Los Angeles in 1978, but they only hit it big in the 80s. Except for short periods when other musicians joined briefly, the band has had a relatively stable line-up consisting of Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar & keyboards, Belinda Carlisle on vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass guitar, Jane Wiedlin on rhythm guitar. They were the first, and to date only, all-female band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the album charts. The Go-Go's will also release their first new recording in nearly 20 years, "Club Zero," starting on July 31st just...
- 7/2/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The all-female punk band that defined mall culture in the early 1980s with the opening tune of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Go-Go’s are still shockingly kicking ass in their 60s as a new lively, definitive documentary captures. Exploring the winding path from punk rock obscurity in L.A. to pop stardom and the lows between, director Alison Ellwood never misses a beat as the band looks back at how they came together on their own without the intervention of a label cooking them up in an A&r lab. Through interviews with band members, friends, and business associates combined with archival materials, Ellwood’s The Go-Go’s feels as fresh and feisty as their music.
Forming in the late 1970s in L.A. with initial limited success initially, the band hit England on a pub tour with The Replacements before returning home and facing rejection from multiple...
Forming in the late 1970s in L.A. with initial limited success initially, the band hit England on a pub tour with The Replacements before returning home and facing rejection from multiple...
- 2/12/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
In the terrific documentary “The Go-Go’s,” there’s a tasty clip of the band playing an early club gig in 1979, when they were part of the L.A. punk scene. They wear bushy black hair and pale white makeup (with rouge!), as if they were trying to be mannequin versions of Darby Crash, and they have the primitive rickety sound of people who were only just learning to play their instruments. Yet despite the raw aura, the gift that would take them far comes through — in the contrapuntal singing, the wobbly vibrance of their hooks. They had yet to figure out what they were doing, but seeing these young women up on stage in the ratty club milieu, you can already tell that history had a plan for them.
“The Go-Go’s” is And it does so by spotlighting how the revolutionary aspect of their journey was embedded in everything they did.
“The Go-Go’s” is And it does so by spotlighting how the revolutionary aspect of their journey was embedded in everything they did.
- 1/25/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The meteoric and ruinous rise to fame is more than a movie cliché; it’s a virtual guarantee for just about any artist without his or her head screwed on straight. But “The Go-Go’s” tackles the seminal all-female ’80s rock band with such honesty, openness and effervescence that it not only rises above that clichéd, almost telegraphed arc but transcends the ranks of other music documentaries to offer a story you desperately want to keep watching, even when you already know where it’s going.
It’s fascinating to think of the performers of “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Head Over Heels” and even their earliest hit “We Got the Beat” as punk rockers, but “The Go-Go’s” reminds audiences of the band’s scrappy origins as a group of young women inspired by the Los Angeles punk scene to start their own band. Though members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin,...
It’s fascinating to think of the performers of “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Head Over Heels” and even their earliest hit “We Got the Beat” as punk rockers, but “The Go-Go’s” reminds audiences of the band’s scrappy origins as a group of young women inspired by the Los Angeles punk scene to start their own band. Though members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin,...
- 1/25/2020
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
Some people might come to a Go-Go’s documentary wanting a purely fun, bubbly experience, based on the effervescence the group projected at its breakthrough peak in the early ’80s. Others might want a sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll tell-all, if they’re aware of the tensions and bad habits that led the all-female band to acrimoniously break up in the mid-’80s.
Debauchery, or debutantes — which vision would director Alison Ellwood (“History of the Eagles”) favor for her film, titled “The Go-Go’s”?
As the group and their director stopped by Variety‘s Sundance studio for a video interview Thursday, right before the film’s premiere, it was clear they were happy that pop-punk frolic got its due in the new movie, since the sordid side of things already got a protracted hashing out in a VH1 “Behind the Music” 20 years ago.
“I was really happy...
Debauchery, or debutantes — which vision would director Alison Ellwood (“History of the Eagles”) favor for her film, titled “The Go-Go’s”?
As the group and their director stopped by Variety‘s Sundance studio for a video interview Thursday, right before the film’s premiere, it was clear they were happy that pop-punk frolic got its due in the new movie, since the sordid side of things already got a protracted hashing out in a VH1 “Behind the Music” 20 years ago.
“I was really happy...
- 1/25/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
That Dog were a beloved band in the Nineties whose legacy has only grown since they released their last LP, 1997’s near-perfect Retreat From the Sun. They just released a deluxe edition of their 1995 debut album, and they recently played their first show in 19 years. In an example of That Dog’s influence on today’s generation of indie rock, Allison Crutchfield of the great band Swearin’ was on hand to sing backing vocals. Now, they’ve announced a new album, Old LP, their first since Retreat From the Sun.
- 8/23/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
“Angie, are you tough enuh-uff/To let it go?” asks Mary Timony over sugared electric guitar churn at the outset of Ex Hex’s latest, immortalizing a new rock’n’roll Angie with as much performative heartache and swagger as Jagger, maybe more. Ex Hex’s second album is about garage-rock thrust at its core, like prime Stones and their own debut Rips. Like that LP, it draws a through-line from the Shangri-Las to Blondie to Sleater-Kinney to, well, Ex-Hex.
This time, though, pop-metal production shine adds a new meta-textual layer,...
This time, though, pop-metal production shine adds a new meta-textual layer,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
A documentary about rock band the Go-Go’s is coming to Showtime.
The premium cable network announced Saturday it has acquired U.S. rights to The Go-Go’s, directed by Alison Ellwood.
Born out of the Los Angeles punk scene, the Go-Go’s shot to the top of the charts in the 1980s. The girl group was made up of Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Gina Schock (drums), Kathy Valentine (bass and vocals) and Jane Wiedlin (guitar & vocals).
The band’s 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, featuring the hits Our Lips Are Sealed and We Got the Beat, was one of the most successful debut albums of all time, resulting in a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
The band granted full access for the documentary feature, Showtime said. The doc will include interviews with members of the...
The premium cable network announced Saturday it has acquired U.S. rights to The Go-Go’s, directed by Alison Ellwood.
Born out of the Los Angeles punk scene, the Go-Go’s shot to the top of the charts in the 1980s. The girl group was made up of Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Gina Schock (drums), Kathy Valentine (bass and vocals) and Jane Wiedlin (guitar & vocals).
The band’s 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, featuring the hits Our Lips Are Sealed and We Got the Beat, was one of the most successful debut albums of all time, resulting in a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
The band granted full access for the documentary feature, Showtime said. The doc will include interviews with members of the...
- 2/10/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime is head over heels for The Go-Go’s. The network has acquired the U.S. rights to an upcoming documentary on the iconic all-female rock band, Showtime announced on Saturday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The documentary, aptly titled “The Go-Go’s,” will take an in-depth look at the band’s meteoric rise from the Los Angeles punk and new wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Alison Ellwood — director of the well-received two-part rock doc “History of the Eagles” that aired in 2013 on Showtime — is attached to direct the project.
The band — Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin on guitar and vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass, and lead vocalist Belinda Carlisle — granted “full access” to Ellwood, according to Showtime, with candid interviews offering a look at how they became the first multi-platinum, all-female band to top the charts by writing their...
The documentary, aptly titled “The Go-Go’s,” will take an in-depth look at the band’s meteoric rise from the Los Angeles punk and new wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Alison Ellwood — director of the well-received two-part rock doc “History of the Eagles” that aired in 2013 on Showtime — is attached to direct the project.
The band — Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin on guitar and vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass, and lead vocalist Belinda Carlisle — granted “full access” to Ellwood, according to Showtime, with candid interviews offering a look at how they became the first multi-platinum, all-female band to top the charts by writing their...
- 2/10/2019
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
Head Over Heels, the Broadway musical currently playing at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, is based on a 16th-century prose poem of mistaken identity and jealous lovers that was later turned into a play, The Arcadia. But everyone really knows it as “the Go-Go’s musical” since the upbeat production features all the hits from the pioneering all-female group. It’s one of those meta-mashups that can take some time to get into but, once you do, there’s plenty of fun times to be had while upending the patriarchy.
- 11/5/2018
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
The Go-Go’s have never had a harmonic bicoastal convergence like the one they’re enjoying in both Los Angeles and New York this month. On the east coast, Broadway is currently playing host to previews of “Head Over Heels” — not the real Go-Go mania, but an incredible simulation. Out west, the group kicked off a three-night reunion residency Monday evening at the Hollywood Bowl, where the fireworks are not between Kathy Valentine’s and the rest of the band’s lawyers (she’s back!) but above the bandshell.
There’s a funny kind of reversal going on here, though. When it was announced that “Head Over Heels” would use the band’s music as a song score for a theatrical musical-comedy, a lot of people naturally feared how their songs might lose their rock and roll luster in being bigger and Broadway-ized. Yet their ‘80s and ‘90s hits are rendered pretty faithfully,...
There’s a funny kind of reversal going on here, though. When it was announced that “Head Over Heels” would use the band’s music as a song score for a theatrical musical-comedy, a lot of people naturally feared how their songs might lose their rock and roll luster in being bigger and Broadway-ized. Yet their ‘80s and ‘90s hits are rendered pretty faithfully,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Several generations of female musicians were center stage on day two of the Ascap I Create Music Expo at Loews Hollywood Hotel, with a mix of relative veterans like JoJo, Lindsey Stirling, the Go-Go’s Charlotte Caffey and that dog’s Anna Waronker as well as fresh newcomers like Billie Eilish and Gizzle.
While questioners asked whether they should post their music on YouTube, Spotify and Soundcloud or wait for someone who’ll pay to release it, there wasn’t much question where the panelists stood: The Diy mentality held sway, and most said the ease of streaming and the lack of record label interference allows them the freedom to pursue their creativity in any number of ways.
On the morning’s Renaissance Women in Music panel, Priscilla Renea, who has been an outspoken enthusiast during several discussions, talked openly to Ascap Svp Membership Nicole George-Middleton about being dropped by...
While questioners asked whether they should post their music on YouTube, Spotify and Soundcloud or wait for someone who’ll pay to release it, there wasn’t much question where the panelists stood: The Diy mentality held sway, and most said the ease of streaming and the lack of record label interference allows them the freedom to pursue their creativity in any number of ways.
On the morning’s Renaissance Women in Music panel, Priscilla Renea, who has been an outspoken enthusiast during several discussions, talked openly to Ascap Svp Membership Nicole George-Middleton about being dropped by...
- 5/9/2018
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
The Go-Go’s are back!
Original members Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin reunited Monday’ at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City to perform their first show together in six years — and People has the exclusive premiere footage of their return to the stage!
Making their way through hits like “We Got the Beat,” “Head Over Heels,” “Vacation,” “Cool Jerk,” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” the band had the celebrity-packed crowd — including Bravo’s Andy Cohen and Roseanne actress Sandra Bernhard — dancing all night long.
It was a joyous evening not just because the band was back together,...
Original members Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin reunited Monday’ at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City to perform their first show together in six years — and People has the exclusive premiere footage of their return to the stage!
Making their way through hits like “We Got the Beat,” “Head Over Heels,” “Vacation,” “Cool Jerk,” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” the band had the celebrity-packed crowd — including Bravo’s Andy Cohen and Roseanne actress Sandra Bernhard — dancing all night long.
It was a joyous evening not just because the band was back together,...
- 2/1/2018
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Houston passes anti-discrimination ordinance, Nom gets fined in Maine, Phineas & Ferb combine Star Wars with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
LeVar Burton launched a Kickstarter to bring back the Reading Rainbow on the web, including a version for schools. His $1 million goal was reached in less than 24 hours, and the ability to pledge is open until July.
Houston has passed their sweeping non-discrimination ordinance after nine hours of debate. The Hero law passed 11-6 and protects sexual orientation and gender identity but also, as federal laws do, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
In a surprise move, Justice Kennedy has asked the litigants in Oregon for briefs in the attempt by the National Organization for Marriage to stop equality in the state. Kennedy could dismiss himself or refer the issue to the full court. I...
LeVar Burton launched a Kickstarter to bring back the Reading Rainbow on the web, including a version for schools. His $1 million goal was reached in less than 24 hours, and the ability to pledge is open until July.
Houston has passed their sweeping non-discrimination ordinance after nine hours of debate. The Hero law passed 11-6 and protects sexual orientation and gender identity but also, as federal laws do, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
In a surprise move, Justice Kennedy has asked the litigants in Oregon for briefs in the attempt by the National Organization for Marriage to stop equality in the state. Kennedy could dismiss himself or refer the issue to the full court. I...
- 5/29/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
The Go-Go’s originally planned a farewell tour back in 2010, but the band kept chugging along, even after the departure of original bassist Kathy Valentine back in March. But now that split over “irreconcilable differences” has turned predictably ugly, with Valentine filing a lawsuit to stop a shell game seemingly designed to deny her any profits from the band going forward. Valentine owns a fifth of Ladyhead LLC and Smith-Pocket Industries, the entities that conduct the still-booming Go-Go’s business. But the rest of her former bandmates—Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, and Gina Schock—have now created ...
- 5/28/2013
- avclub.com
Los Angeles, Oct 4: Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to produce a musical based on the all-girl supergroup The Go-Go's, according to reports.
Working with several prospective co-producers, including Donovan Leitch and Rick Ferrari, Paltrow would base the musical on the life and music of the seminal 1980s all-girl group that includes Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina.
Working with several prospective co-producers, including Donovan Leitch and Rick Ferrari, Paltrow would base the musical on the life and music of the seminal 1980s all-girl group that includes Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina.
- 10/4/2012
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
Gwyneth Paltrow hopes to get the beat. According to THR, the actress -- and part-time singer -- wants to produce a musical about 1980s girl group The Go-Go's.
Details of the project are still under wraps, but THR cites sources who claim Go-Go members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown could be involved in the creation of the musical.
This isn't the first time Paltrow has gotten the musical bug. In 2010, Paltrow famously guest starred on "Glee" as a substitute teacher with a fondness for Cee-Lo Green. Paltrow later made a surprise appearance at the 2011 Grammy Awards to duet with Green on his hit song, "F--- You." 2011 also saw Paltrow play a county music star in the drama "Country Strong."
Earlier this year, Deadline.com reported that Paltrow would team back up with "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy for "One-Hit Wonders." The musical comedy -- which Paltrow,...
Details of the project are still under wraps, but THR cites sources who claim Go-Go members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown could be involved in the creation of the musical.
This isn't the first time Paltrow has gotten the musical bug. In 2010, Paltrow famously guest starred on "Glee" as a substitute teacher with a fondness for Cee-Lo Green. Paltrow later made a surprise appearance at the 2011 Grammy Awards to duet with Green on his hit song, "F--- You." 2011 also saw Paltrow play a county music star in the drama "Country Strong."
Earlier this year, Deadline.com reported that Paltrow would team back up with "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy for "One-Hit Wonders." The musical comedy -- which Paltrow,...
- 10/3/2012
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
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Goop's Got The Beat!: Actress, lifestyle blogger and chef Gwyneth Paltrow is possibly adding another notch to her already impressive resume. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner is looking to produce a musical about '80s girl rock group the Go-Go's. The musical would reportedly be based on the life and music of Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown - whose hits included "Vacation," "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed." Consider our tickets purchased!
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Goop's Got The Beat!: Actress, lifestyle blogger and chef Gwyneth Paltrow is possibly adding another notch to her already impressive resume. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner is looking to produce a musical about '80s girl rock group the Go-Go's. The musical would reportedly be based on the life and music of Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown - whose hits included "Vacation," "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed." Consider our tickets purchased!
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- 10/3/2012
- by nobody@accesshollywood.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Gwyneth Paltrow is currently having talks to helm a new musical based on The Go-Go's. The Iron Man actress is close to signing a contract to create a new theatrical production about the 1980s girl band, according to The Hollywood Reporter. If she agrees to a contract, she will work with several co-producers, including Donovan Leitch and Rick Ferrari. The musical would be based on the lives and music of the girl group that included the members Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown. The band are known for their 1980s hits 'Vacation', 'We Got the Beat' (more)...
- 10/3/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
The "Rush Hour" hitmaker Jane Wiedlin is confident the upcoming summer tour will remind her bandmates just how much fun they had writing and recording hits like "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed" three decades ago - and that will prompt them to return to the studio to begin work on a new album.
She tells Billboard.com, "We've talked about it for years. It's one of those ongoing conversations. I was thinking about how few records we actually have made in our 33 years and how we could be doing a lot better. Because The Go Go's isn't a full-time band anymore and the fact we've scattered over the whole world, it makes it really hard to commit to things like making records."
"Having said that, now that the interwebs (sic) are so big and people release one song at a time... the structure of making music has become less rigid.
She tells Billboard.com, "We've talked about it for years. It's one of those ongoing conversations. I was thinking about how few records we actually have made in our 33 years and how we could be doing a lot better. Because The Go Go's isn't a full-time band anymore and the fact we've scattered over the whole world, it makes it really hard to commit to things like making records."
"Having said that, now that the interwebs (sic) are so big and people release one song at a time... the structure of making music has become less rigid.
- 5/3/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Jeff Favreproduction: A Beautiful View, Son of Semele Theatre; Robots vs. Fake Robots, Powerhouse Theatre; Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Geffen Playhouse.Playwriting: David Largman Murray, Robots vs. Fake Robots.Direction: Don Boughton, A Beautiful View; John Doyle, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Tiger Reel, Cartoon, Art/Works Theatre; Elise Robertson, The Women, Circus Theatricals.Music Direction: Sarah Travis, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Scenic Design: Simon Higlett, The School of Night, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Christine Jones, Spring Awakening, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.Lighting Design: Russell H. Champa, The School of Night; Richard Jones, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Costume Design: Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady.Sound Design: Dan Moses Schreier, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Perfomance In A (Primarily) Straight Play:Gregory Itzin,...
- 3/11/2009
- backstage.com
The Hayworth Theatre, in association with Roz Bernstein Productions, has announced that it is extending the run of "Lovelace: A Rock Opera" until Feb. 28, 2009. The show, which opened Oct. 18th, 2008, continues to play to sold out audiences and critical acclaim. "Lovelace: A Rock Opera" recounts the life and times of legendary adult film superstar Linda Lovelace of "Deep Throat" fame, and is based on the Book, Music and Lyrics of Charlotte Caffey (founding member of "The Go-Go's,) and Anna Waronker (singer/songwriter, founding member of "That Dog,") with the Original Concept and Lyrics from Jeffery Leonard Bowman. Please see: www.lovelacearockopera.com. Acclaimed Director Ken Sawyer ("One Red Flower," "Crime and Punishment") directs "Lovelace," which stars newcomer Katrina Lenk in the lead role. Please visit: www.thehayworth.com Since its debut Oct. 18th, "Lovelace: A Rock Opera" has received critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Weekly,...
- 1/20/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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