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31. Juli 2014 · Margot Olavarria was the original bass player and co-writer of "We Got the Beat" for The Go-Go's, but she was fired and replaced by Kathy Valentine in 1980. Learn about her early punk days, her lawsuit against the band, and her later musical projects.
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- Belinda Carlisle Today
- Jane Wiedlin Today
- Charlotte Caffey
- Kathy Valentine
- Gina Schock
- Margot Olavarria
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Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin were the founding members of the band, which started out as a new-wave punk band in the late 1970s in Los Angeles. According to a Rolling Stone biographyof the band, Carlisle, who was a cheerleader in high school, began playing music with Wiedlin, who got Carlisle started playing guitar. They were soon joined by Ch...
Carlisle had the biggest solo career outside of the band, which includes hits “Mad About You,” “Heaven Is a Place On Earth,” and “I Get Weak.” She was the Playboy cover and celebrity pictorial in August 2001, appeared on Dancing With the Stars in 2009 and starred as Velma Von Tussle in Hairsprayin London’s West End from October 2009 to March 2010. ...
Wiedlin had a mediocre solo career, charting one hit in the top 10 in 1988 called “Rush Hour.” She also dabbled in acting, appearing in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Clue, Sleeping Beauty, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and MTV’s Spyder Games. She also did quite a lot of voice acting, including The New Batman Adventures, Mission Hill, Hex Gir...
After her time in the Go-Go’s in the 1980s, Caffey formed a band with Meredith Brooks and Gia Ciambotti called The Graces. She also co-wrote Keith Urban’s hit “But For the Grace of God” and played piano on Jewel’s “Foolish Games” album recording. Then in 2008, Caffey wrote the book, music, and lyrics for the musical Lovelace: A Rock Musical,” based...
After the Go-Go’s broke up the first time, Valentine was in two different bands, the BlueBonnets, and the Delphines. In between Go-Go’s reunions, she also released a solo album called Light Years. Valentine was married to musician Steven Weisburd from 2002 to 2012. They have one daughter, Audrey, who was born in 2002.
In 1988, Schock released a self-titled album. She also had songs on the soundtracks for Bull Durham, The Accused, Superstar, Deadly Little Secrets, and Crooked Arrows. More recently, she has been co-writing songs for some of the biggest names in pop music, including Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. As far as her personal life goes, Schock is notorious...
In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Olavarria said the band used her arrest for buying cocaine as an excuse to kick her out, though the real reason was that they needed a more pop-friendly sound. “I found out I’d been kicked out of the band from my good friend Exene Cervenka, from X. The Go-Go’s wanted someone with more pop song capability, and...
Margot Olavarria was one of the original members of the all-female pop-rock band The Go-Go's, but she left in 1980 and was replaced by Kathy Valentine. Learn more about her and the other band members' careers and personal lives in this article.
- Andrea Reiher
29. Juli 2020 · Ellwood, to her credit, doesn’t avert her eyes from the uglier parts of the Go-Go’s story, like the firing of the founding bassist Margot Olavarria, a dyed-in-the-wool punk who objected to the...
- Lindsay Zoladz
4. Aug. 2020 · “We Got the Beat” became a minor club hit, but bassist Margot Olavarria was already showing distaste for the band’s new direction. Valentine: They were a completely different band after London.
- Keaton Bell
30. Juli 2020 · Wiedlin and her friend Margot Olavarria decided to start an all-girl band. They invited Carlisle — the oldest of seven kids in a strict San Fernando Valley household who also found her...
5. Aug. 2020 · In Ellwood's documentary, Olavarria shared how she couldn't reconcile her punk identity with the pop direction her bandmates were exploring.
20. Mai 2016 · The group was all but incompetent at the time of its first gig, at a Los Angeles club in May 1978, but the three founding members — bassist Margot Olavarria; guitarist Jane Wiedlin, then known as...
