BELINDA Carlisle’s career took off in the late Seventies after becoming lead singer with The Go-Go’s

Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:48

By Dave Lawrence

The band broke up in 1985 with the various members pursuing their own projects.

BELINDA Carlisle’s career took off in the late Seventies after becoming lead singer with The Go-Go’s, the group who surfed high during the new-wave genre before going on to become the most successful all-girl rock band of all time.

The band broke up in 1985 with the various members pursuing their own projects. Carlisle however possessed that remarkable vibrato voice and duly went on to have a string of classic radio hits and the most commercial success.

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