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31. Juli 2014 · The first lost Go-Go, founding member bass player Margot Olavarria, was “a Valley Girl with dyed day-glo hair and chola make-up whose friends called her ‘Popsicle Head.” After seeing The Sex Pistols perform in the U.K. as a teen-ager, she returned to L.A. with the intention of starting her own band. She was introduced to ...
Drummer Gina Schock (b. August 31, 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) replaced Bello in 1979, and bassist Kathy Valentine (b. January 7, 1959, Austin, Texas, U.S.) replaced Olavarria in 1980. Other members included bassists.
- Member Timeline
- Belinda Carlisle Today
- Jane Wiedlin Today
- Charlotte Caffey
- Kathy Valentine
- Gina Schock
- Margot Olavarria
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...
- Andrea Reiher
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...
4. Aug. 2020 · In December 1980, Margot Olavarria fell ill with hepatitis A before a series of gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, so Valentine filled in for her on bass. Olavarria’s frustration with what she ...
- Keaton Bell
6. Aug. 2020 · Belinda Carlisle is optimistic of a future reconciliation between herself and former The Go-Go’s star Margot Olavarria. Carlisle and Olavarria starred in the original line-up of the Los Angeles new wave group, but the bassist left was forced out just two years in, amid a battle with hepatitis A.
The Go-Go's were an American all-female rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. [1] .
