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Inside the Go-Go’s vicious, drug-fueled ride to fame
premiering Friday on Showtime, runs down the band’s rocky history: the artistic clashes, the messy breakups and, most pervasively, the drinks and drugs.The iconic image of the “Vacation” music video, with the women on water-skis wearing pink swimsuits and white tutus, was an apt depiction of the band, as it turns out. The colorful Go-Go’s were being dragged along by speedy fame — and belly-flopped.The ladies — Belinda Carlisle, Margot Olavarria, Elissa Bello, Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey — started out innocently with the goal of making an all-girl punk group full of self-proclaimed misfits.
