"Turn To You" (1984) - The Go-Go's

The making of Turn to You

Wow, at first glance the band looks like real guys! Especially Belinda. Amazing.

I love all of the Gogo's songs. They were such an awesome band, and one of my favorites from the 80's.

Boy Belinda looks like a young Mickey Rooney.

I always loved "Our Lips Are Sealed."

Vacation!

We got the beat.....

Before Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine joined the band.

Belinda--even with her baby fat--reminds me of Justin Bieber....am I alone in this?????

Were the Gogo's all lesbians?

They sure look it, in the video.

I loved this album and the video's clever, but I think Head Over Heels is a much better video.

"Talk Show" is ridiculously under-appreciated, though.

Remember when videos were a big deal?

Great fucking video - somehow I missed that one back in the day.

I thought Belinda had slimmed down by that point in the Go-Go's. Her "boy" version looks like Colin Jost.

She was at the height of her chipmunkery during Vacation

You are least 12 kinds of stupid, r9.

1985 was the height of her chipmunk days =

Greystone.

Anyway, Bitchlinda has been a huge cunt for years and is responsible for so much BS in the Go-Go's that her "perky cuteness" is long gone for me.

r18 = Jane Wiedlin

I wonder how juicy Kathy’s book will be now that’s she’s back in with the band.

R19 Oh honey, no. Jane has been mostly Team Belinda since their original reunion.

Although Bitchlinda has tried her manipulative Mean Girls shit with every member at one point or another.

Some good Bitchlinda stories, please!

They still rock even as they push into their 60s.

R22 Kathy Valentine's lawsuit is a juicy document, confirming what many of us suspected over the years - Bitchlinda is the prime shit stirrer/source of conflict in the group.

I remain amazed that Kathy came back and rejoined the group for some of their dates, but I assume it was financial, and because they needed rights to the songs KV wrote in the Broadway show.

It seemed like they all had big hopes for the Broadway show, and was the reason they were back together. But it should have been a jukebox show playing all of their hit recognizable songs. The storyline had nothing to do with the band, and lesser known songs were used and it closed.

Always on trend

R26 With all the white on the Go-Go's (not to mention the redness, Jane's metallic outfit & the crinkled background), they look like microwave popcorn in that shot.

R-10 totally agree. ‘You Thought” and “Head over Heels” are my faves.

P.s. Met Belinda a few times in late 90s. Cold would be a compliment.

Wow talk about a band that needs a movie

I had a really boring job when Kathy Valentine wrote an autobiography on twitter that the band members eventually made her delete and kicked her out of the band. The annoying part was that you can't jump to a certain date on twitter, and had to keep scrolling back to the beginning every time.

She didn't reference anything that wasn't public knowledge, and already covered in biographies. She wrote about her own drug use mostly, and that she attended Glendale Community College after she quit and the band broke up. She did write that the bands nickname for Melissa Gilbert was "Half-Gram."

Belinda revealed on Twitter that she was dealing with the loss of her younger brother here in October.

Does anyone know what he died from?

[quote] Belinda looks like a young Mickey Rooney.

In that video she looks more like younger Wayne Newton. Jane of course like Beatles era Paul McCartney.

25th Anniversary of Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's

Talk Show was their best album by far. So sad the magic had faded at that point.

Turn to You had the sound they were looking for since We Got the Beat.

I always knew the Go-Go's were trans!

Very fun. I have tickets to tour the Greystone Manson in the fall, excited for it. The date has been bumped for a year and a half because Covid.

R28 I met Belinda about eight years ago. Oddly enough, the word I would use to describe her is "ladylike."