On or around May 17, Capitol/I.R.S. will release a 30th Anniversary Edition of The Go-Go's double platinum debut album, Beauty and the Beat, which has been digitally remastered and expanded.
The commemorative edition will be available in a 2CD package and in two digital collections featuring the remastered original album plus exclusive, previously unreleased concert audio recordings from 1981.
On the same date, the remastered original album will be reissued on pink vinyl with replicated original artwork.
I remember hearing "Our Lips Are Sealed" for the first time (the first single from Beauty and The Beat), then the only recorded track for the band, on the Rutgers University student run radio station and running out and seeing the band the following Saturday night at a converted Go-Go bar in New Jersey (no kidding). I have to be honest, I remember very little about the evening due to my overindulgence of alcoholic libations. That being said, I recall there being a small crowd of about 30-50 of us all cramped up near the edge of the "stage". I was about 10 feet away from Belinda Carlisle when a fight broke out right in front of me. Carlisle stopped the band and, shaking her finger in a dismissive gesture, said "Now, now boys". Bouncers threw the fighters out and the show resumed. I'm told I had great fun that night.
The Go-Go's will hit the road this summer on their Ladies Gone Wild tour in support of the new release. Here are the dates:
August
12 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
13 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
14 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo
16 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
17 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theater
20 Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino
23 Aspen, CO Belly Up
24 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
26 Dallas, TX House of Blues
27 Houston, TX House of Blues
28 Austin, TX Paramount Theater
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