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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.
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