The Go-Go’s Lost The Beat
The happy pop tunes of The Go-Go’s — “We Got The Beat,” “Vacation,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” — obscure the band’s origins as well as its customary state of mind. For their first Saturday Night Live appearance, they spent the day drinking and then hit the booger sugar to pep up before the 11:30 curtain call. “We were like cross-eyed drunk,” said drummer Gina Schock. Over time, though, a little booze and a little blow just doesn’t do it anymore, and guitarist Charlotte Caffey ended up with a serious heroin habit by 1984. “Charlotte was so out of control that Ozzy Osbourne threw her out of his dressing room,” Schock recalled. “That’s pretty f***in’ bad.”