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Lips Unsealed: A Memoir

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The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Go’s created, but it also conceals the trials and secret demons that th...more The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Go’s created, but it also conceals the trials and secret demons that the members of the group—and, in particular, its lead singer, Belinda Carlisle—struggled with on their rise to stardom.

Leaving her unstable childhood home at the age of eighteen, Belinda battled serious weight issues, having been teased for her pudginess throughout grade school, and grappled with her confusion about being deserted by her biological father as a child. This talented but misguided teen found solace in the punk rock world that so openly welcomed misfits—even though acceptance had its price.

Not long after forming, the Go-Go’s became queens of the L.A. punk scene—they sold out venues, attracted a fiercely loyal fan base, and outpartied almost every male band they toured with—and in the process kicked down the doors to the all-boys’ club of eighties rock and roll. With a chart-topping debut album, Belinda found herself launched to international superstardom—and with that fame came more access to A-list parties, and even more alcohol
and drugs to fuel Go-Go’s mania. Inevitably, Belinda began to self-destruct.

Lips Unsealed is filled with the wild stories that Belinda Carlisle fans are dying to hear—stories about the band’s crazy days on tour with acts like the Police and Madness and the fabulous parties and people to whom the Go-Go’s had exclusive access. But more than that, this candid memoir reveals the gritty flip side to the glitz, as Belinda shares her private struggles with abusive relationships, weight, and self-esteem, and a thirty-year battle with drug and alcohol addiction.

This spellbinding and shocking look at her rise, fall, and eventual rebirth as a wife, mother, and sober artist will leave you wistfully fantasizing about the eighties decadence she epitomized, but also cringing at the dark despair hidden behind her charming smile. One of the rare adventures through rock stardom told by a woman, Lips Unsealed is ultimately a love letter to music—to the members of the Go-Go’s, who’ve maintained lifelong friendships, and to the beloved husband and son who led Belinda to sobriety—and the story of a life that, though deeply flawed, was, and is still, fully lived.(less)

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Published June 1st 2010 by Crown Archetype (first published 2010)

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Jun 24, 2010 Katherine rated it 2 of 5 stars

Pretty good. I am, and always have been, a big Go Go's fan. It started off really interesting but by the end was a little monotonous and I felt like screaming "Either get off the blow or die already!"

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Feb 24, 2013 Sally rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was at the library and saw this book in the return pile and thought, Hey! Belinda Carlisle! I was a Go Go's fan, owned their first 2 albums in my record collection. Judging from the title, I thought this should be a good read about the Go Go's told by the lead-singer herself. However....
Belinda, Belinda, Belinda! You seriously glossed over the years with the Go Go's and wrote a book about a coke/alcohol addiction lasting 30yrs! Hardcore! Why are you still alive?! And why did it take you 30yrs...more

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Dec 22, 2012 Louise rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, entertainers, memoir

This is the year for the rock memoir. There are new books by Keith Richard, Paul McCartney, Pat Benatar and Belinda Carlyle to name just a few.

About a week ago I read Pat Benatar's Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir and just finished this one today. The experience of the music industry as lived by these two women couldn't be more different. Both came from modest families, but Benatar's was stable and Carlyle's was not. Besides the chaotic home life, Carlyle's trials as a teen basically a...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Neil McGarry rated it 4 of 5 stars

As an ardent Go-Go's fan, this was a must-read for me. Belinda was never my favorite of the five (Jane Wiedlin rocks!), but if she had been, Lips Unsealed might have changed my mind.

Beginning from her early childhood, Lips Unsealed follows Carlisle's career from struggle to stardom to decline, and the most common element of it all is drugs and music...and the inability to cope with either. There are some great insights into the music industry in this book, although most of it comes during the s...more

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Sep 10, 2011 Georgette rated it 2 of 5 stars

I loved the Go-Gos. I still love the Go-Go's. What I wasn't too hot about was Belinda's autobiography. While it was quite enlightening to read about her struggles with addiction and weight issues, it seemed throughout the book as if she was striving for more sympathy, by piling on more and more of things that went wrong. She glossed over the Go-Go's(in my opinion) and the fact that they were a pretty big part of the 80's(girl groups, that unlike the Monkees, played their own instruments, did the...more

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Feb 08, 2011 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was a real guilty pleasure, just like the Go-Gos' music, which I secretly love.

The book was an entertaining history of the Go-Gos and then Belinda Carlisle's solo career. It also had plenty of celebrity cameos and stories of debauchery from the Behind-the-Music years, which was exactly what I was hoping for. My only complaint about the book is that it's clear that the story Belinda Carlisle really wanted to tell was the story of her addiction--it's an addiction memoir even more than i...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love the Go-Go's. 'Beauty and the Beat' was the first record album I bought with my own money, and I've been a huge fan of the group for as long as I can remember. Following them in fanzines and the press, I'd always heard about Belinda's antics so I had to read this book to get the story from 'the horse's mouth'.

The book is good. She doesn't get into too much detail, but she's very open. The tone is conversational, and it was very interesting to hear about the group's start and her early lif...more

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Sep 08, 2010 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The early chapters reminded me of Mötley Crüe's "The Dirt," from the perspective of an all-female band from the same era. This is the best part of the book, from Carlisle's early childhood and family issues through the formation of the Go-Go's and their subsequent highs and lows. There are plenty of fun tidbits for music fans to gobble up in those early chapters. her writing style is at about a high school freshman level, but it's accessible and expresses her sunny, SoCal party-girl personality...more

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Jul 19, 2010 christa rated it 4 of 5 stars

I fell in love with Belinda Carlisle in the back of a clunky brown passenger van in the summer of 1987, my walkman spinning the cassette of her debut solo album, "Belinda." On the cover, the most beautiful woman in the world was dressed in all black against a Hubba Bubba pink backdrop, her bob flung whimsically in a way that said "I'm the kind of girl who tosses her hair. I'm always having fun."

To see her on MTV supported this personae. In her videos, Belinda Carlisle spun and rolled in the sand...more I fell in love with Belinda Carlisle in the back of a clunky brown passenger van in the summer of 1987, my walkman spinning the cassette of her debut solo album, "Belinda." On the cover, the most beautiful woman in the world was dressed in all black against a Hubba Bubba pink backdrop, her bob flung whimsically in a way that said "I'm the kind of girl who tosses her hair. I'm always having fun."

To see her on MTV supported this personae. In her videos, Belinda Carlisle spun and rolled in the sand, dance-flirted on sun porches, made love to a convertible's head rest with her voice -- a voice that sounded equal parts cigarettes and Tab. Her clothes always dangled off bare shoulders, like she had dressed hastily in the morning before sneaking out a bedroom window. Never trashy,though. What people mean when they say: "Why, she's a natural beauty."

In her memoir "Lips Unsealed" the former Go-Go reveals that this was all a front. That beneath the tousled red hair and pearly whites, she was a coke head in an internal state of controlled chaos. She was on and off the wagon so many times that she should have splinter scars on the backs of her thighs. This shouldn't come as a surprise. The Go-Gos reputation for partying hardy was well-documented, and frequently Carlisle's own binges ruined live performances -- both televised and at sold-out concerts -- and pissed off her band mates. In 2005 she snorted her last snort after envisioning herself OD'd in a hotel room -- death by hotel room being popular in the crowd she ran with. (Consider her old friend with benefits Michael Hutchence of INXS). Not to mention that her longtime husband Morgan Mason -- he of the kissy face moments in the video for "Mad About You" -- was pretty much done with her secret stashes and wonky-eyed returns from touring.

Carlisle was a chubby club girl -- nicknamed "Belimpa" by her high school classmates -- in the late 1970s, hanging in the Hollywood punk scene with her gal pals. One night, sitting on a curb, they decided to start the band that would eventually become the internationally beloved Go-Gos. Amount of musicality between them: Nada. (Carlisle told those shrieking sociopaths on "The View" recently that in those days, it was pretty uncool to actually know how to play an instrument). Soon after they were touring in Europe, and went on to become the first all-girl band to write and play their own instruments and land a number one record. By then they had shed their punk roots and were producing something a little more poppy than they were first comfortable with.

Of course, the Go-Gos were pretty short-lived. They were divided between the party girls and the not-so party girls, and there was some resentment about their front woman's bigger hotel rooms, and role as spokeswoman. Rightfully so: While the other women learned their instruments and earned songwriting credits, Belinda Carlisle was completely divorced from the creative process. Ms. Carlisle went on to get married, develop a solo career that started up here, and progressively attracted less and less interest. There were reunion tours with the Go-Gos, and drug binges across the globe that included a particularly harrowing experience involving mountains pallets of coke guarded by machine guns. There were weepy promises made to her husband, and a brief reprieve from addiction while she was pregnant with her son. Add to this a Madonna-inspired eating disorder, fueled by seeing how svelt the Queen Material Girl had gotten and comparing herself unfavorably. Then there is the time she gets coked up in the bathroom at her son's school ...

Speaking of purging: This book is a big one. Carlisle puts it all out there, leaving seemingly no part of her life for the sequel. This memoir doesn't necessarily paint the newly-minted AARP member as a real sweetheart. And since she's being so goll darn honest, she fact checks a few of the rumors that have spun about her over the years no matter how inane and forgettable they are to the general public. Things like: 1. No, she didn't screw David Lee Roth; 2. She did not do coke while she was pregnant with her son; 3. She wasn't dropped from her label after "Live Your Life Be Free" because of a public altercation with the then label president. These dolled out digs are a little trite, but hey, if she's going to splay her story without romanticizing an ounce (or gram, as the case may be), she's allowed a bit of self indulgence. She is exactly what you would expect from a 1980s rock star, right down to the part where she cleans up her act and includes the Dalai Lama on her reading list.

These days Belinda is living in the south of France. She's a spokesperson for a weight loss system. Her son is en route for college, and she's still married to the romantic lead from her music videos. She was on one of those reality dance competitions. She has been sober five years. The Go-Gos had planned a summer last-ditch reunion tour, but Jane took a digger when hiking and her ACL surgery called for canceling.

Many years ago I wrote a bloggy love letter to Belinda Carlisle, and said that I didn't really want to know about her real life. I wanted her to be that woman skipping through an apartment, singing and tossing her hair. Beaming and shiny skinned. I didn't want to see her strung out at 8 a.m., Rod Stewart screaming at her for keeping him up all night. But that is untrue. This book was delicious. I've been having mini-Belinda video fests for the past few days, and falling in love with her all over again. Let's just say: I feel the magic like I've never felt before.

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Aug 01, 2011 Dachokie rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Not a Happy Tale ..., September 28, 2010

When I saw this book, I thought it was a "must-read" for me. The Go-Gos' music musically documented a period of my generation, just like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" did visually. Similar to Robert Plant or Mick Jagger, Belinda Carlisle easily commanded attention as a gregarious vocalist of a popular music group ... and over the years, the tabloid stories and a surprise "Playboy" picture spread generated obvious clues that she had a story to tell. Initia...more Not a Happy Tale ..., September 28, 2010

When I saw this book, I thought it was a "must-read" for me. The Go-Gos' music musically documented a period of my generation, just like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" did visually. Similar to Robert Plant or Mick Jagger, Belinda Carlisle easily commanded attention as a gregarious vocalist of a popular music group ... and over the years, the tabloid stories and a surprise "Playboy" picture spread generated obvious clues that she had a story to tell. Initially, I found the book unfulfilling and viewed it as just another celebrity who "had it all", only to blow it. But, weeks later, Carlisle's autobiography stills clings to my memory and it becomes clear that her story is not so much unique as it is memorable.

First and foremost, I admire Belinda Carlisle for her courage in revealing the painful reality of her life in such an open and raw manner. She starts her memoir by detailing a troubled childhood that is told in a manner that easily generates empathy and sympathy. The image Carlisle presents as a young girl is both heart wrenching and powerful enough to stick with the reader through the entire book. It becomes difficult not to conclude that her early life experience factored heavily into the difficulties she experiences throughout her life. This portion of the memoir is delivered with much more clarity than the remainder of the book in my opinion.

In traditional pop/rock music fashion, Carlisle escapes the misery of home by seeking refuge in a variety of punk music clubs and on a drunken whim, decides with a gaggle of friends to form a band. Although it is interesting to discover that the Go-Go's were formed in such a hasty manner, I felt that this juncture of Carlisle's life was glossed-over as the band seemed to morph very quickly from a group of untrained drunks with a dream ... to suddenly recording an album. Being the primary reason for her fame, I was hoping Carlisle would divulge a little more detail on the band's beginnings. It is at this point, the alcohol and drugs take control of the memoir's content, the details become more convoluted and parts of the storyline become slightly difficult to follow in a chronological manner. One moment the focus is on a show at Los Angeles club and next, the group is recording, then in London only to be back in Los Angeles again ... the transition between events was occasionally abrupt. Apart from the nomadic nature of her life, Carlisle effectively illustrates her personal road of self-destruction, paved with a lethal cocktail of chemicals and low self-esteem.

Most of the book is a rollercoaster ride of making music and getting high. Although, music is what defines her, you never get a sense that her music career was a true source of happiness, even when she claims it to be. What is fully displayed, however, is the misery and frustration of her addiction, reinforced by a detailed stream of relapses. It's the drugs, not the music, the gets top billing in Carlisle's life story.

The rocky road that was (is) Belinda Carlisle's life is not really shocking ... it is depressing. She succeeds in creating a sense of despair throughout her memoir and it is, at times, difficult to read about. Although, in the end, she writes of finding true happiness, it is hard to believe, as the more recent pictures of her in the book seem to reveal underlying pain. It is hard not to be a fan of Belinda Carlisle after reading her story.(less)

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Feb 15, 2011 V. Briceland rated it 3 of 5 stars

When it comes to celebrity memoirs, I can't think of any I've read that have quite as many eye-popping drug-related revelations as Carlisle's tell-all. In fact, I'm not sure how any of them are going to top Carlisle's confession about taking a large opium ball as a suppository. And I'm not sure I'm really want to find out.

Carlisle's memoir is a fairly absorbing read about her outsider childhood and adolescence and the founding, flare-ups, and eventual reconciliations between the Go-Go's, mostly...more

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Sep 03, 2010 Wendy Wallace rated it 3 of 5 stars

While I wouldn't call myself a huge Belinda Carlisle fan, I did grow up in the 80's and heard the Go Gos and her solo stuff constantly. I appreciated the memoir for giving the reader an insight into the troubled life of the author. I never would have guessed she was a hardcore drug addict and alcoholic. I came away from the book being reminded that, no matter how beautiful or seemingly charmed someone can appear, there is so much more going on than we see.

I have two gripes though.

One, the book w...more

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Jul 20, 2012 jess rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, audiobook-d, ladyish

This book is actually not great but I enjoyed it. The storytelling is flat and shallow, the gossip is slim and Belinda really wants you to appreciate how far she fell so you can appreciate how far she's come during recovery. It is more of an addiction memoir than a chronicle of the Go-Go's. While it's not a great addiction memoir, I managed to find enough to like about it. I appreciated the parts about growing up in the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene, living in gross punk houses and crashing on co...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of the Go-Gos & Belinda

Shelves: biography-autobiography, music, read-in-2013, woman-author

In the summer of 1984, I was at summer camp and one of the camp counselor's put on a cassette tape of The Go-Gos "Talk Show." In an instant, I fell in love with the group. I begged the counselor to play the tape over again, and so began my relationship with Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Kathy Valentine, Gina Shock, and Charlotte Caffey. It's been an enduring interaction with this amazing girl band who I can honestly say changed my love of music.

29 years later, I sat down to read the recollecti...more In the summer of 1984, I was at summer camp and one of the camp counselor's put on a cassette tape of The Go-Gos "Talk Show." In an instant, I fell in love with the group. I begged the counselor to play the tape over again, and so began my relationship with Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Kathy Valentine, Gina Shock, and Charlotte Caffey. It's been an enduring interaction with this amazing girl band who I can honestly say changed my love of music.

29 years later, I sat down to read the recollections of Belinda Carlisle on both the group and her life. I can also honestly say for a great deal of the book, I was shocked. I knew a little bit of her drug addiction, but I had no idea, it was to the level it was at based on what Carlisle writes in her story. Truthfully, I'm stunned that 1.) she never overdosed and 2.) that she can even remember anything from the past 30 years. That's how much of a drug haze she was in.

Beginning with her childhood years, Belinda describes in detail how her drug and alcohol addiction began. She describes with clarity and insight about how her punk rock roots led to the creation of the Go-Gos and how their meteoric rise in the music business helped fuel her and the other members partying and drug lifestyle. While the rest of the band cleaned themselves up, Carlisle continued with her coke binges for the next 30 years. Again, for much of the book I was stunned. I sit and try to remember a 2003 concert when I saw Belinda perform in concert. She was probably stoned out of her mind or heading to that oblivion after her show.

One of the most powerful ideas of the book is that her husband, son, and the other members of the Go-Gos stood by her, waiting for her to realize that she needed help. This book made me sad and happy because Carlisle has finally achieved a sober life but it took too many years and lots of wasted time for her to get there. While I always thought she was beautiful and talented, she only felt insecure and phony. The image I saw was not the image she saw. Interesting.

I will continue to be a fan of hers and the Go-Gos, but now I have more insight into who she is and I will listen to her music differently and with greater appreciation for what it took for her to make it and to be where she is at now in her life.(less)

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Dec 23, 2012 Lisa Stephenson rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is a 2010 autobiography by Belinda Carlisle, lead singer of the 80s all-girl rock band The Go-Gos. In the book, she met almost every big name in the music business but the book was primarily about her constant drinking and drug-taking, which continued until 2005, years after she was for all intents and purposes out of the music business. During the past few decades she has been extremely lucky to have stayed married to her husband Morgan Mason (actor James Mason's son) and raised a son, Duk...more

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Oct 19, 2011 Alexis rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: addicts, biography

I quite liked this book. I wanted to give it 3.5 stars but alas that is not an option here. I have great memories of being a little girl listening to the Go-Gos and then Belinda herself as a solo artist. I always thought she was adorable. The ending about how she found yoga and chanting was a bit meh for me as that is not my thing but hey whatever lets you sleep at night as I always say. I think it was a very honest memoir and you get to see a side of her that has been hidden from the world. I w...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Snapekat rated it 2 of 5 stars

I remember getting the LP of "Beauty & the Beat" when I was in 7th grade. I thought it was way cool that it was all girls and they were so TOUGH and rock n roll! Over the years I had heard the stories about the wild parties and antics of these chicks and I guess that was what I was really looking for. "We were so smashed we did ___ and ___." You get some of that in this book, but mostly you get Belinda talking about how she spent nearly 25 years wacked out on drugs and alcohol. More than hal...more

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Apr 01, 2011 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: celebrity-biography, autobiography, music-stars-past-present

When I think of Belinda Carlisle, the first song that comes to mind is her hit "Heaven is a Place on Earth" that came out while I was in high school. I was a fan of hers, loving the music she wrote and came out with. Little did I realize until reading this book, what she really was like...into the hard core rocker party scene...and its only been in recent years that shes come to terms with her past problems and seems to have a great outlook on life.

This book was a good read...I enjoyed reading a...more

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Aug 14, 2010 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2010

If you are a Go-Go's fan and/or a Belinda Carlisle fan, you will enjoy her autobiography entitled Lips Unsealed. Although her book is marketed as a memoir, I believe it to be more autobiographical. In an autobiography, the author discusses one's entire life from birth to the present. In a memoir, the author focuses on an aspect or a snapshot. Belinda focuses on three main points of her life: her musical influences and coming-of-age as a Go-Go, her alcohol and drug addictions that haunted her for...more

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May 08, 2013 Agatha West rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am a huge Belinda Carlisle fan, she is beautiful, and her music is timeless. She is also a very good author (if she did write this by herself, I am always suspicious lol)and her writing style is clear, consice, and it was a very easy read because of that.

She has had a hard life, and through most of the book she seeks out an answer for why she treats her body and her loved ones the way she does. She does find that answer near the end of the book, and it does speak to how families can be breedin...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Etcetorize rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of Belinda Carlisle

I was a teen girl in the 80's so of course that means I was a big fan of the Go-Go's and later a bigger fan of Belinda Carlisle in her solo years. This book is a good account of how the band formed, their early trials before they became famous, and what lead to the downfall and eventual break up of the band.

There isn't a large amount of emotion in the recounting of the tales of the past for Carlisle, then again, maybe that's because she was completely out of it for most of her life. I was startl...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Shaney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Belinda Carlisle and the Go-go's were and still are one of my favorite bands. The first time I heard them, I was in 7th grade Spanish class and a classmate had the "Vacation" cassette tape in his (1983) Walkman. He let me listen for a second and I was hooked. I went home and begged my parents for my own music, but I didn't have a Walkman so I bought a 45--(a record, OMG!) of We Got the Beat. As I read this title on my NOOK as an ebook, I listened along to the songs she referred to on the NOOK mu...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Alicia rated it 2 of 5 stars

I liked the stuff about the LA punk scene in the early 80s. But the tales of the $300-a-day coke habit for 20+ years were really repetitive, as these things tend to be. Still, there were some especially impressive feats in cocaine intake. For example, JOHN BELUSHI cautioned Belinda about her drug use. That's right, John Belushi. And also, Rod Stewart scolded her for partying too hard and keeping him up all night. Rod Stewart! And also, she did coke in her five-year-old son's elementary school ba...more

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Apr 09, 2013 Krusher Basta rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: music

Hello, my name is Bill, and I am a G0 GO’s fan. There, I admitted it.
I was inclined not to post anything about this book and not acknowledge that I was reading it. However, once I started reading I really like the book. It isn’t so much about the Go-Go’s but the rock or punk rock lifestyle; all or nothing. It almost defies all reason that Belinda Carlisle and the Go-Go’s should have been a success, but they were. And I admit that I am glad they were.
To me one of the best features of the G0 GO’s...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Devin Tait rated it 5 of 5 stars

I started reading this book on a Saturday morning, just intending to pass some time before I would begin my day. Well, the "day" never happened, because I could not put the book down - I just read it from cover to cover, stopping only to eat lunch. It was that much of a page-turner. Admittedly, I am a huge Go-Go's fan, and grew up with Belinda's solo music, and I own all of her CD's. It was great to hear her behind-the-scenes versions of what went on behind the making of each album, the tours, t...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Mehjabeen is currently reading it

This isn't a review but an anticipation of reading a book I've wanted to read a long time. As a big Go-Gos fan and admirer of Belinda in all the tabloid spreads with her handsome hubby starting, I thought her life was so cool. I listed to the Mad About You LP so much I had to go get another one after a few years. Anyway, ho hum, gonna read this and take a trip down memory lane. Canadian fans, she was on Jian Ghomeshi's Q 2 years back to promo the book and while I'd heard of her drug and alchohol...more

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Sep 25, 2010 Becky Sandham Mathwin rated it 2 of 5 stars

A junk book I picked up at the library on a whim. I'm not a big Go Go's fan so I don't really know why I thought I'd be interested in this. I really don't care for Belinda too much (or at least how she portrays herself in this memoir). I finished the book but I skimmed through parts of it. What a narcissistic person. I give her credit for being very honest about her drug and alcohol problems but feel sorry that her husband and son had to put up with her issues for so long. I know drug/alcohol ad...more

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Jun 08, 2011 Kris rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was very into the Go-Go's in the day, so I thought this would be a fun read for my trip up North.

The early parts with the band were by far the best part. I found Belinda very tedious after a while, and then downright annoying by the end. Usually addicts seen to learn from themselves before they write a book about it. She didn't seem to. It was a never-ending stream of using, not using. Got really old.

She also tacked on some new age-y Buddhist stuff at the end which seemed forced to me. The end...more

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Jul 03, 2011 Kim rated it 1 of 5 stars

I only marked "read" b/c I am done with this book. I got about 75 pages in and it just seemed like I was reading about drugs, drugs & more drugs. While I don't proclaim to be an angel, I didn't feel the need to continue to read about BC's party days. I got the point. The funny thing is that I really thought I liked BC and have always liked the Go Go's and even BC's solo music.

My final feeling before I stopped reading this book was that I have so many books that I want to read on my list, I...more

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Dec 29, 2010 Suzy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I loved it-but then again my favorite band in the 80's was the GoGo's. As a child we had crushes on the same actors so it was a trip down memory lane. Belinda was very candid-especially about her drug use which was out of control. I was scared and appalled at times and saddened that had she been sober her experiences could have had so much more meaning and depth, especially those with her son. She clearly has lucked out when it comes to her marriage, not many men would have stood by her through...more

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Belinda Jo Carlisle is a Grammy Award–nominated American singer. After beginning her career as a drummer or backup singer for some Los Angeles music groups, she achieved international recognition in the early 80s as lead singer of the new wave group The Go-Go's. The Go-Go's made history as the first all-woman band that both entirely wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the...more

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