While on tour, the Go-Go's recorded an extended play for Stiff Records. The Go-Go's developed a reputation within the Hollywood punk scene and were invited to open for the band Madness on a UK tour.

A few months later, Charlotte Caffey joined the band as the lead guitarist since she had experience writing music with other groups like the Eyes. Carlisle was the singer, Wiedlin played rhythm guitar, Olavarria played bass and the newly added Elissa Bello played drums. Although none of them actually knew how to play instruments, they quickly learned, and began playing in Hollywood nightclubs under the name the Go-Go's.

The three attended the Sex Pistols' final performance in San Francisco in January 1978, and afterwards were inspired to form their own band. In the late 1970s, Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, and Margot Olavarria met while attending punk rock shows in California. The title is a play on the European fairy tale ' Beauty and the Beast'. Critically acclaimed, it has been described as one of the 'cornerstone albums of American new wave'. The LP sold in excess of two million copies, and was RIAA-certified double platinum, qualifying it as one of the most successful debut albums of all time. The album stayed at the top for six consecutive weeks, and ranked second in Billboard's year-end Top 100 of 1982 (behind the self-titled debut album of Asia). After a long and steady climb, Beauty and the Beat reached number one in the album chart dated March 6, 1982, the week before 'We Got the Beat' entered the Top Ten of the Hot 100. 2), initially released in 1980, but in a different version. Records label, the album reached number one on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart in March 1982, bolstered by its two big Hot 100 hit singles: ' Our Lips Are Sealed' (no.

' Our Lips Are Sealed' / 'Surfing and Spying'īeauty and the Beat is the debut album from California new wave band the Go-Go's.

In 1963 they change to an eye logo with the brand 'Compact Book' and the words 'New Style 64 Series'. Their logo was a guy in a trenchcoat with the word 'Thriller'. Then Roberts & Vinter took up the task from 1961. Many of these covers are abreviated versions of the original Head covers, and the titles usually drop the slang for 'woman'. reprinted most of the novels plus new ones with different less sexy cover paintings with yellow & red bars across the top. These early titles often start with a hardboiled slang for a woman, such as 'broad', 'frail', or 'skirt'.įrom 1955-1959 Alexander Moring Ltd. Some Heade covers were reprinted in 2004. (Each Series is called a volume in this table.) Many of these covers depict bondage and nudity, and were censored in later editions. The books are unnumbered, but were listed by number on the backs of some issues. They published four 'Series' of a dozen each. Francis) 'Hardboiled' novels in paperback with gorgeous, sexy Reginald Heade covers.

In 1948 Gaywood Press started issuing these Hank Janson ( Steve D.

Beauty and the Beat by Hank Janson