Belinda Carlisle radio, and becoming the first all-female band who wrote their own music and played their own instruments to ever achieve a No. 1 album, "Beauty and the Beat", which featured the hits "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". The Go-Go's recorded two more studio albums on I.R.S. Records, including 1982's "Vacation", which went gold. "Head over Heels", from their 1984 album "Talk Show", made it to No. 11. In 1984, Carlisle made a foray into acting in the movie "Swing Shift", starring alongside Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. The Go-Go's disbanded in 1985 and Carlisle embarked on
All I Was two main projects in an interview with the "Nottingham Post", "The bands are so different. And I write so much. I'm going to do a solo record because there are some songs that I'd hate to think wouldn't see the light of day because they don't work for Creed or Alter Bridge." He decided to do the album during "a three-month window when [Alter Bridge singer] Myles Kennedy was out with Slash and [Creed singer] Scott Stapp was doing some touring." He described the album as "melody-driven," and as "a heavier-sounding album," with elements of thrash and speed metal. In