By TANIA PHILLIPS
SHE was a member of one of the first all-female music groups to write their own songs and play their own instruments and take their music to the top of the Billboard charts – but Our Lips Are Sealed as to who it is.
Okay – only joking – Grammy Award-nominated US singer and best-selling author Belinda Carlisle is on her way to Twin Towns this weekend. And not only that but the lead-singer of The Go-Go’s.
As part of The Go-Go’s, Belinda Carlisle sold more than seven million albums with such hits as “Our Lips Are Sealed”, “We Got The Beat”, “Vacation”, “Head Over Heels”, “Can’t Stop The World” and many others.
She later went on to a successful solo career that spawned hits such as “Mad About You”, “Summer Rain”, “I Get Weak”, “Leave A Light On” and “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”, which topped the charts internationally.
Her first venture into music was as the drummer for the LA punk band The Germs, under the name Dottie Danger, it didn’t last long what with drumming not being her natural forte and all so she left and joined The Go-Go’s.
After the initial break-up of The Go-Go’s in 1985 Belinda Carlisle picked herself up, dusted herself off and embarked upon a solo career.
Her first solo album, “Belinda”, was released in 1986 and it was also that year she married Morgan Mason, son of the British actor James Mason. Morgan made appearances in Carlisle’s videos “Mad About You” and “Heaven is a Place on Earth”.
Belinda flaunted her glamorous image on the cover of her second album 1987’s Heaven on Earth, her second solo album (released in the United States through MCA but in the United Kingdom through Virgin).
Critics and fans noticed that not only was Belinda’s image more glamorous than during her time with The Go-Go’s, but also her solo music was more polished and ‘professional’.
The new sound was certainly due in part to producer Rick Nowels, who had previously worked with Stevie Nicks and would later work with Madonna, among many others.
Who: Belinda Carlisle
When: Saturday 30 November, at 8pm
Where: Twin Towns
Interested?:Tickets $65
