Beauty and the Beat earned its number 1 spot. The hits - “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed” - are among the best songs of the rock era, but album tracks like “This Town” and “Lust to Love” would have been the best songs other groups ever recorded. The album is a masterpiece, and the band is an American original. God bless The Go-Go’s.
I love when there is someone who is a true fan who gets to induct an artist into the RRHOF! The love, enthusiasm and true appreciation for that artist is contagious and helps explain why they are being inducted. Love Drew and love the Go-Go's!
@@karenstrycharz1499 these award shows are so tough because its so subjective. I saw a bunch of negative posts about the Go-Go's induction and a slew of bands (insert name here) who they thought should be in before them. It's really annoying on so many levels to me. I think just for the fact thst they were the first all-female band who played their own instruments, wrote their own songs, made it to #1 on Billboards Top 100 best selling albums and were not put together by some Svengali management team are reasons enough to set them apart. I also believe that each artist will get their day and that there's enough love to go around for everyone. The fans always voice their opinions and that's how so many of my faves got nominated. Cheers to you my friend!!! 🥰🥰🥰
@@michelestevenson1310 “CHEERS TO YOU TOO MY FRIEND!”😄I think you voiced perfectly everything I am feeling & was so glad to see your positive post on”The Go-Go’s” myself! I felt it was about darn time they were inducted(long over do!!!) and thrilled they were! I have always loved their music 🎼 & really, for all the reasons you outlined in your intelligently & very witty, might I also add ha!🤣comment to me, they should have been nominated & inducted a longgggg time ago!!! Others can “cut them up all they want( although it irritates the heck out of me, too… might I also add), to bad, I want to text! They can “bad mouth the Go-Go’s all they want for the fact remains…”THE GO-GO’s” are inducted & now are in “the “HALL OF FAME” SOOOOO they can cry all they want 😂, for there is nothing they can do about it! You want to add “Cry me a River….lol! when they go on about it. Hey, there have been many inducted in the past 8 yrs or so in particular, that I could not believe were inducted, while groups & individuals that were eligible were passed over& actually continue to be passed over but I would never cut them up on their induction site, bemoaning why “they were inducted & how I didn’t feel they should be!” I am no authority & neither are these people cutting up the Go-Go’s! “ I know “taste” in music 🎵 & The Art’s in general is “subjective”, so I do not text negativity but apparently Michelle, some of them on this post & other’s “didn’t get that memo!”🤣🤣🤣 Some of those inducted past few yrs have mystified & I have wondered “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING” when they inducted them!” YOU then read only few wks ago that “TINA TURNER” ( My Goshhhhh, an icon in the entertainment industry was just nominated “THIS YEAR!!!” I honestly couldn’t believe it & thought she had long since been inducted & I somehow missed it! 😆Well Michelle, I so loved “chatting 🤣with you ( so much fun!) & so happy our GO-Go’s so deservedly got inducted at ling last! It was well deserved, as we both kniw! Wishing you the very, very best my new found friend! God Bless & take care!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
How fitting that Billie Joe is giving the Go Gos the ultimate respect. I could hear a lot of the Go Gos influence in Green Day's music. Now both my favorite Punk/Pop bands are in!😎
Thank you for sharing this for those of us that weren't able to attend the induction in person, and can't wait until it's streaming! Congrats to these ladies who deserve this so much, the music of my teens being honored brings tears to my eyes!
Drew Barrymore did a fantastic job. I don't think they could have picked a better person. The Go-Go's are such a great band with such great classic tunes that have always been underrated. A perfect example of that is when they were robbed of a Grammy award in 1982 for best new artist. The Go-Go's were the hottest new act, and they lost to Sheena Easton. This is why it was so great that their induction ceremony by Drew Barrymore was so awesome. Those 5 women finally were rewarded their flowers. ❤
I have always loved her ‘ adore her “attitude!” Drew has never cared how she looks or what she says! With Drew Barrymore, what you see is what you get & there in lies her “special charm for me!” I adore her! How many women entertainers with get up on the “this stage” so to speak with “presumably all the big names “ of the musical community & entertainment community there, wrap yourself in towels & smear white moisturizer all over your face?????🤣🤣🤣🤣I would hazard a guess not many! Ha! Drew is just a fun, no airs person & I so love her too. Congratulations 🎈, once again to the Go-Go’s!
Big time congratulations to these five women. Loooooong overdue. Drew did a great job on the induction speech. Am I the only one who sees the opening of Fast Times at Ridgemont High whenever Gina's drums start the engine for We Got the Beat??? Good memories.
Bought Beauty and The Beat when stationed overseas. Worked with another guy on the midnight shift. Got back to the barracks around 9am, mixed Southern Comfort with Mt. Dew and cranked this freakin album almost til it was time to go back to work!
Their names alone should get a Trophy of some kind. Charlotte Jane Belinda Gina and Kathy Wow. I can imagine what went on behind the scene's was colorful also. How these misfits ended up on top of the dirt pile of life is hilarious. I could not be more proud of them myself it wasn't easy thats for sure it took raw talent all the way and they had in spades. Thanks Go Go's for hanging in there!.
Do not care who you you are or what you may say publicly but the fact is the GO-GO,s are not just a kick ass band but they more than deserve this honor. These five along with others ie the Wilson sisters, Joan Jett Stevie nicks Janis Joplin grace slick, and so many more like them have earn the right to belong. They have fought the fight, endured the double standard , the discrimination and the bias all because they were woman. It's amazing the industry wanted them and need them. An industry ruled by men and Thier narrow Machi male chovinist view of the world , the industry and of women . The problem was these dudes got what they wanted in this group. They were women. They were and still are beautiful. They can write music. They can compose music. They play there own instruments. And these women wanted to be and felt that the should be able to act like Rick n rollers . Just like any other male group . That includes all the sex drugs and debauchery that comes with it. Why should they , they navigated the same roads with extreme success. It was this thought of girls being as capable and even more so than most of thier make counter parts. The idea that woman could jam as hard creates as well and truely party as hard as any male group out there this is what scared the heck out of the industry's makers and shakers. Theses women scared the hell out of them, this causing this induction to take as long as it has. Well the time has come. The doors are now open just as they were obliterating the ground then they still are today hold up your hands yell it out loud, lady's and gents may i introduce to you all the most awesome all woman's band in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame membership, ladies and gents it's my pleasure to present to you The GO-GOS!
Really happy for them, and particularly for Kathy Valentine since I have met her and she is amazing as a musician and a person. Any bros out there disrespecting them still can STFU. The Go-Go's were game changers.
The Go Go’s consist of Belinda Carlisle on lead vocals, Kathy Valentine on bass guitar and backing vocals, Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, Jane Wedlin on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, and Gina Schock on drums and backing vocals.
They were an eye candy, bubblegum, girly pop group that couldn't play and couldn't sing. Fast forward 40 years and now they are not even eye candy and they still can't sing and they still can't play. When you look at the inductees over the years, and the fine bands that were never inducted, the Go Go's getting in makes an absolute mockery of it.
From what I heard he wasn't apart of the voting committee this time. Which was a fucking prayer, because if not for him they would have been in a decade ago. Still holding on to that grudge about the rolling stones cover...
I totally agree. I like the Go Go's but let's be honest they had 1 great album that hit, the other 2 albums had Vacation as a hit but what else??? If you want just stats Belinda Carlisle Solo had more hits than the Go Go's but I guess if they don't get it, it will be blamed on male privilege. Oh well, it is what it is. Congrats.
No they had a number one album for 6 weeks the first and ONLY all women band to accomplish this with music entirely wriiten and played by them. 4 albums of original music 6 top 40 singles and big influencers on Green Day, Foo Fighters and many other bands. What were you mumbling about?
First of all Overrated Joan Jett is already inducted and second of all scared of how many waaaay more talented and worthy female artist should be in first. 2 words for ya!!! PAT BENATAR.
When is Roxette going to get inducted? 8 Top 10 Billboard hits, including 2 at #1. 7 more in the Billboard Top 25. And, a massive body of work that spanned nearly 40 years! Their accomplishments rival that of ABBA.
She's known the band and been close with them since she was a child ( on top of they're music being a big part of her life ). The band wanted her to induct them... please stop
Not a fan nothin personal didn’t like the music or anything but then again I don’t like niki Minaj or Eminem or most new music maybe I’ll have to move to another habitable planet in the future nah too risky
Now let’s get the Bangles inducted
These girls absolutely belong in the Hall of Fame. I love their sincerity in their documentaries.
Beauty and the Beat earned its number 1 spot. The hits - “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed” - are among the best songs of the rock era, but album tracks like “This Town” and “Lust to Love” would have been the best songs other groups ever recorded. The album is a masterpiece, and the band is an American original. God bless The Go-Go’s.
absolutely bro
I love when there is someone who is a true fan who gets to induct an artist into the RRHOF! The love, enthusiasm and true appreciation for that artist is contagious and helps explain why they are being inducted. Love Drew and love the Go-Go's!
I so agree with what you said & love it too!♥️
@@karenstrycharz1499 these award shows are so tough because its so subjective. I saw a bunch of negative posts about the Go-Go's induction and a slew of bands (insert name here) who they thought should be in before them. It's really annoying on so many levels to me. I think just for the fact thst they were the first all-female band who played their own instruments, wrote their own songs, made it to #1 on Billboards Top 100 best selling albums and were not put together by some Svengali management team are reasons enough to set them apart. I also believe that each artist will get their day and that there's enough love to go around for everyone. The fans always voice their opinions and that's how so many of my faves got nominated. Cheers to you my friend!!! 🥰🥰🥰
@@michelestevenson1310 “CHEERS TO YOU TOO MY FRIEND!”😄I think you voiced perfectly everything I am feeling & was so glad to see your positive post on”The Go-Go’s” myself! I felt it was about darn time they were inducted(long over do!!!) and thrilled they were! I have always loved their music 🎼 & really, for all the reasons you outlined in your intelligently & very witty, might I also add ha!🤣comment to me, they should have been nominated & inducted a longgggg time ago!!! Others can “cut them up all they want( although it irritates the heck out of me, too… might I also add), to bad, I want to text! They can “bad mouth the Go-Go’s all they want for the fact remains…”THE GO-GO’s” are inducted & now are in “the “HALL OF FAME” SOOOOO they can cry all they want 😂, for there is nothing they can do about it! You want to add “Cry me a River….lol! when they go on about it. Hey, there have been many inducted in the past 8 yrs or so in particular, that I could not believe were inducted, while groups & individuals that were eligible were passed over& actually continue to be passed over but I would never cut them up on their induction site, bemoaning why “they were inducted & how I didn’t feel they should be!” I am no authority & neither are these people cutting up the Go-Go’s! “ I know “taste” in music 🎵 & The Art’s in general is “subjective”, so I do not text negativity but apparently Michelle, some of them on this post & other’s “didn’t get that memo!”🤣🤣🤣 Some of those inducted past few yrs have mystified & I have wondered “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING” when they inducted them!” YOU then read only few wks ago that “TINA TURNER” ( My Goshhhhh, an icon in the entertainment industry was just nominated “THIS YEAR!!!” I honestly couldn’t believe it & thought she had long since been inducted & I somehow missed it! 😆Well Michelle, I so loved “chatting 🤣with you ( so much fun!) & so happy our GO-Go’s so deservedly got inducted at ling last! It was well deserved, as we both kniw! Wishing you the very, very best my new found friend! God Bless & take care!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thee thells theethells by the theethore!
the people that are saying that are either uninformed are sexist morons.
The world can end now, safe in the knowledge that The Go-Go's are where they belong!
Thank you for this video Mark L.
congrats 👏 👏 👏...your mom more than deserves it...loved them as a little kid in the early 80s..awesome girl band ..no..awesome band!!!
Hold on you Belinda's kid? Your mom f-ing rules. My congrats!
@@GVike That’s not her son lol Her son is James Duke Mason (her husband is Morgan Mason- son of actor James Mason)
Best Hall of Fame introduction EVER...Love Drew and The Go-Go's!!!
Thee thells theethells by the theethor!
Beauty and the Beat was the first album I saved up my allowance to buy. Ah, the 80s. Listening to that album makes you happy to be alive.
How fitting that Billie Joe is giving the Go Gos the ultimate respect. I could hear a lot of the Go Gos influence in Green Day's music. Now both my favorite Punk/Pop bands are in!😎
they rocked it one of the most kick ass women rock bands ever
So happy for all these women my favorite group it’s about time 😘
@Ian Turner How right you are Ian!
It's about time! The GoGo's ruled good in the 1980s. Central High Class of 1985, Phoenix AZ !!!
Thank you for sharing this for those of us that weren't able to attend the induction in person, and can't wait until it's streaming! Congrats to these ladies who deserve this so much, the music of my teens being honored brings tears to my eyes!
This gave me chills of the good ole days
Drew Barrymore did a fantastic job. I don't think they could have picked a better person. The Go-Go's are such a great band with such great classic tunes that have always been underrated. A perfect example of that is when they were robbed of a Grammy award in 1982 for best new artist. The Go-Go's were the hottest new act, and they lost to Sheena Easton. This is why it was so great that their induction ceremony by Drew Barrymore was so awesome. Those 5 women finally were rewarded their flowers. ❤
Drew is so cute. I love it. This band was also my first fave ALL female icon band of my childhood. best memories ever.
I have always loved her ‘ adore her “attitude!” Drew has never cared how she looks or what she says! With Drew Barrymore, what you see is what you get & there in lies her “special charm for me!” I adore her! How many women entertainers with get up on the “this stage” so to speak with “presumably all the big names “ of the musical community & entertainment community there, wrap yourself in towels & smear white moisturizer all over your face?????🤣🤣🤣🤣I would hazard a guess not many! Ha! Drew is just a fun, no airs person & I so love her too. Congratulations 🎈, once again to the Go-Go’s!
Big time congratulations to these five women. Loooooong overdue. Drew did a great job on the induction speech. Am I the only one who sees the opening of Fast Times at Ridgemont High whenever Gina's drums start the engine for We Got the Beat??? Good memories.
How right you are! Loved that movie & love the “GO-GO’s! Just love Drew Barrymore too!
Not the only one
I became a fan when I became aware of their 45rpm single ‘Surfin & Spying’ which was a tribute to The Ventures.
I figured out how to play this song on guitar, Gogo's version when I heard it.
oh my gawd do we have the mother.......ing beat! That was priceless.
Bought Beauty and The Beat when stationed overseas. Worked with another guy on the midnight shift. Got back to the barracks around 9am, mixed Southern Comfort with Mt. Dew and cranked this freakin album almost til it was time to go back to work!
Thank-you sincerely for your service!♥️
Their names alone should get a Trophy of some kind. Charlotte Jane Belinda Gina and Kathy Wow. I can imagine what went on behind the scene's was colorful also. How these misfits ended up on top of the dirt pile of life is hilarious. I could not be more proud of them myself it wasn't easy thats for sure it took raw talent all the way and they had in spades. Thanks Go Go's for hanging in there!.
Gracias for the video!! 🤩 Now I love Drew Barrymore even more, what a great introduction.
Do not care who you you are or what you may say publicly but the fact is the GO-GO,s are not just a kick ass band but they more than deserve this honor. These five along with others ie the Wilson sisters, Joan Jett Stevie nicks Janis Joplin grace slick, and so many more like them have earn the right to belong. They have fought the fight, endured the double standard , the discrimination and the bias all because they were woman.
It's amazing the industry wanted them and need them. An industry ruled by men and Thier narrow Machi male chovinist view of the world , the industry and of women .
The problem was these dudes got what they wanted in this group. They were women. They were and still are beautiful. They can write music. They can compose music. They play there own instruments. And these women wanted to be and felt that the should be able to act like Rick n rollers . Just like any other male group . That includes all the sex drugs and debauchery that comes with it. Why should they , they navigated the same roads with extreme success.
It was this thought of girls being as capable and even more so than most of thier make counter parts. The idea that woman could jam as hard creates as well and truely party as hard as any male group out there this is what scared the heck out of the industry's makers and shakers.
Theses women scared the hell out of them, this causing this induction to take as long as it has.
Well the time has come. The doors are now open just as they were obliterating the ground then they still are today hold up your hands yell it out loud, lady's and gents may i introduce to you all the most awesome all woman's band in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame membership, ladies and gents it's my pleasure to present to you The GO-GOS!
Really happy for them, and particularly for Kathy Valentine since I have met her and she is amazing as a musician and a person.
Any bros out there disrespecting them still can STFU. The Go-Go's were game changers.
Kathy has always been my favorite, too!
Oh Kathy. 🥰
She's my favorite Go Go. Hands down.
I'm still reading her book, it's amazing.
Great introduction Drew, thank you for the video.
I was so in love with Jane Wiedlin back in 1984 when I discovered them when Talk Show came out.
The Go Go’s consist of Belinda Carlisle on lead vocals, Kathy Valentine on bass guitar and backing vocals, Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, Jane Wedlin on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, and Gina Schock on drums and backing vocals.
I didn't know Drew was such a big Go-Gos fan!
She met the band when she was a child coming up in show business and they're music was a big part of her life. The perfect inductor
About damn time! Doesn’t matter what they say….🎸🎼🥁
Fantastic time...loved every minute of it
I was here too! It was so great!!
Thee thells theethells by the theethore!
THANK YOU for sharing this!
Belinda is a doll!
The Go-Go's RULE !!!!!
Super group the go go’s and allow me to honour Drew’s great talent and super performance in the wedding singer with Mr Adam Sandler
I loved this. I thought the Foo Fighters were the worst induction & performance of the night.
Our lips are sealed was the best song they did.
Great video! Thanks for uploading this until we wait for the show's broadcast.
Let’s gooooo!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Did anyone notice that Billy Joe has the same hairstyle as Belinda in the throwback clip?
Is their acceptance speech available somewhere ? Can't seem to find it...
Thanks for posting this.
A mid 90’s era drew would’ve had a strapless bra on AT LEAST to better pull off the look 💜💋🤘
Am I right???
I think Drew lacks passion.Great job.
They were an eye candy, bubblegum, girly pop group that couldn't play and couldn't sing.
Fast forward 40 years and now they are not even eye candy and they still can't sing and they still can't play.
When you look at the inductees over the years, and the fine bands that were never inducted, the Go Go's getting in makes an absolute mockery of it.
Jealous much there? I suppose Missy Elliott was a better choice for the 2023 class, right?
Billy joe Armstrong.. what a knut.
Go Gos are awesome but I wonder how they got the approval of his Holiness Jann Wenner?
From what I heard he wasn't apart of the voting committee this time. Which was a fucking prayer, because if not for him they would have been in a decade ago. Still holding on to that grudge about the rolling stones cover...
They had a couple of songs,....not bad,........but in the hall of fame?
I totally agree. I like the Go Go's but let's be honest they had 1 great album that hit, the other 2 albums had Vacation as a hit but what else??? If you want just stats Belinda Carlisle Solo had more hits than the Go Go's but I guess if they don't get it, it will be blamed on male privilege.
Oh well, it is what it is. Congrats.
@@tonyponchopeters Participation trophy?
No they had a number one album for 6 weeks the first and ONLY all women band to accomplish this with music entirely wriiten and played by them. 4 albums of original music 6 top 40 singles and big influencers on Green Day, Foo Fighters and many other bands. What were you mumbling about?
Awesome !!! and tomorrow Joan Jett also should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.... as Dave Grohl one time said :)
First of all Overrated Joan Jett is already inducted and second of all scared of how many waaaay more talented and worthy female artist should be in first. 2 words for ya!!! PAT BENATAR.
When is Roxette going to get inducted? 8 Top 10 Billboard hits, including 2 at #1. 7 more in the Billboard Top 25. And, a massive body of work that spanned nearly 40 years! Their accomplishments rival that of ABBA.
What’s a roxette??
How can we celebrate women when we’re supposed to be gender less? I’m so confused….🤷♂️
Cause Drew was such a big part of rock and roll RIGHT...lol
She's known the band and been close with them since she was a child ( on top of they're music being a big part of her life ). The band wanted her to induct them... please stop
Thee thells theethells by the theethore!
Not a fan nothin personal didn’t like the music or anything but then again I don’t like niki Minaj or Eminem or most new music maybe I’ll have to move to another habitable planet in the future nah too risky
Still no PAT BENATAR. This is a joke.
The Go Go s in RRHOF but Boston is not what a bad fucking joke🙄😂😡
No more annoying person than Barrymore 😂
This show gets more corny as the years go by, if I was Eric Clapton I would insulted being compared with the go gos
They sucked 😆...
Drew Barrymore rocks!!!!
LUV IT!!