Belinda Carlisle Unsealed", published in June 2010, was a "New York Times" Best Seller and received favorable reviews. On August 11, 2011, as a member of the Go-Go's, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Belinda Jo Carlisle was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on August 17, 1958 to Harold Carlisle, a gas station employee, and his wife, Joanne (née Thompson), a homemaker. Her mother met her father, who was twenty years her senior, at age eighteen, and Carlisle was born nine months later. She was named after her mother's favorite film, "Johnny Belinda" (1948). Carlisle was the
Polar Studios a good, spacious live sound where they would be able to work at their own leisure and decided that the best solution was to build their own. Among the early non-ABBA albums recorded at the studio were the Genesis' album "Duke" (1980), followed by ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad's solo album "Something's Going On" (which was produced by Genesis drummer Phil Collins). Led Zeppelin recorded their 1979 album "In Through the Out Door" here. Artists such as the Ramones, Rammstein, Roxy Music, Genesis, Adam Ant, Backstreet Boys, Beastie Boys, Belinda Carlisle, Burt Bacharach, Franki, Celine Dion, Roxette, Terra Firma, Entombed, The