Belinda Carlisle left LA because she thought there must be more to life
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Belinda Carlisle quit drugs when she realised it was only a matter of time before they killed her
The 62-year-old singer stopped taking cocaine when her band the Go-Gos split up in 1985, but she turned back to the habit in the early 1990s and things eventually came to a head in 2005 1 July 2021
She said: âI was in a really bad place from age 40 to 47.
âIt was a horrible cycle. I was just sick of the lies and the drama, and I hated myself.
Recalling how she skipped rehearsals for recording her French covers LP Voila in London in 2005 in favour of going on a cocaine binge, she said: âI just knew that it was only a matter of time before I died.
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It hardly matters â who really cares about these things? â and yet it does. This year the Go-Goâs will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and earning a place at the museum in Cleveland, Ohio, for all its naffness, is still a mark of influence and recognition. âI always said: âFuck them, I donât care,ââ says Belinda Carlisle, the bandâs lead singer. âBut when it actually happens, itâs: âOh, this is not so bad.ââ
The Go-Goâs have had a reappraisal in the past year, thanks mainly to a documentary by the film-maker Alison Ellwood. It tells the story of how these scrappy young LA punks put together a band (the lineup shifted until arriving at the current five members) and made history â incredibly, they are still the only female band who write their own music and play their own instruments to have reached the top of the US album charts. That was in 1982.