[MUSIC - THE GO GO'S, "WE GOT
 The greatest all-girl group
of all time, The Go-Go's!
MAN: The Go-Go's!
MAN: The Go-Go's!
JANE WIEDLIN: We are the
first all-girl band, that
wrote their own material and
played their own instruments,
to be really successful.
In the course of a year we
had gone from playing dive
bars to Madison Square Garden.
[music playing]
There never would have been
The Go-Go's without the punk
rock scene in Los Angeles.
BELINDA CARLISLE: Anybody
could do whatever they wanted,
it was total freedom.
GINA SCHOCK: The punk scene
allowed you to be whoever you
wanted to be, play the
way you wanted to play,
and you were accepted.
JANE WIEDLIN:
People used to cross
the street when they saw me.
I felt powerful
for the first time.
CHARLOTTE CAFFEY:
When they asked,
hey, do you play lead guitar?
I figured, I play bass so
yeah, it's a couple more,
strings it'll be OK.
PLEASANT GEHMAN: Their
set was three songs long,
and two of them
were the same song.
CHARLOTTE CAFFEY: We were
pretty crappy in the beginning,
but we had these songs that
were just coming together.
(SINGING) 'Cause
we got the beat.
We got the beat.
We got the beat.
WOMAN: Oh my god.
This is going to be huge.
(SINGING) Yeah,
they got the beat.
MAN: Here's the Go-Go's,
"We Got the Beat".
KATHY VALENTINE: I couldn't
walk down the street.
That's how famous
The Go-Go's were.
JANE WIEDLIN: People would
freak out when we played.
STEWART COPELAND: They
just created something
that exploded on the stage.
(SINGING) We got the beat.
We got the beat.
Yeah, we got it.
INTERVIEWER: The success, how
has it affected your life?
CHARLOTTE CAFFEY: We're aware
of how well we're doing,
but we don't feel it.
Not yet.
It's just too much, it's
an overload on the brain
right now.
GINA SCHOCK: The fighting
and the real drugs
happened when we all get money.
BELINDA CARLISLE: We
didn't communicate.
And then when we
did communicate,
we didn't do it in
a respectful way.
KATHY VALENTINE: I
started feeling very
concerned about our future.
BELINDA CARLISLE: There's a lot
of karmic ties in this band,
just the fact that we've
been in each other's lives
for so many years,
KATHY VALENTINE: There has
to be to work out something.
(SINGING) Vacation's
all I ever wanted.
Vacation, had to get away.
Vacation, meant--
GINA SCHOCK: We are a family.
That's just what it is.
INTERVIEWER: You still all
just get along as friends?
 Yeah.
(SINGING) Vacation's
all I ever wanted.
Vacation, had to get away.
Vacation, meant to be--
GINA SCHOCK: Girls
will run up to us
and say, oh, yeah, we started
a band because of you!
And that's probably the
best feeling in the world.
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