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By Steve Peake, About.com Guide to 80s Music

1981 a Banner Year for the Trailblazing Women of the Go-Go's

Sunday April 15, 2007
f78104zqouq.jpg With one of the strongest and best-selling albums of the '80s in Beauty and the Beat, the Go-Go's stormed the music scene in 1981 and basically became legendary. The band's music may have become far more pop-oriented as its brief career progressed, but the mark made by the quintet's self-reliant approach to rock and roll success still shows today in every all-female, artistically independent musical group that emerges. Just ask the Bangles, contemporaries who both benefited from and added to the impressive accomplishments of the Go-Go's. Album Cover Photo Courtesy of IRS Records

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