'The Go-Go's' charts the rise, fall and return of the groundbreaking '80s band, one punk-to-pop hit at a time. Our Sundance2020 review:
Even if you’ve seen the footage before, in L.A. punk docs and VH-1 specials, it’s still thrilling to watch: Five women on stage, their outfits resembling a day-glo mix of thrift-store chic and a temper tantrum’s aftermath, two different kinds of eyeshadow and smeared streaks of rouge fighting for dominance, bashing out crude anthems at the Masque Club. “They played three songs, and two of them were the same song,” one witness remembers about that gig.
It helps to remember that the quintet who’d go on to be the first all-female band to play their own instruments, write their own songshave a Number One album started out in the Los Angeles punk scene — it gave them the initial burst of energy and sense of defiance that previews what would come later.
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