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
Rat Girl a starred review in Kirkus Reviews it is described as a ""thoroughly engrossing work by an original voice"". In 2012 Rolling Stone ranked it number 8 in their list of The 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time. Rat Girl Rat Girl is a memoir published in 2010 by Penguin Books and written by Kristin Hersh, a guitarist, songwriter, and singer who has performed as a solo artist, and as guitarist/lead singer of the alternative rock band Throwing Muses. In the U.K., it was released with the alternate title Paradoxical Undressing. The book chronicles a year (1985–1986) in her life