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 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 during which time Throwing Muses gained fame, signed a recording contract with 4AD, and recorded their eponymous debut album, "Throwing Muses". Other notable subjects discussed at length in the work are Hersh's friendship with actress Betty Hutton, her