Belinda Carlisle was born in Los Angeles, California, in August 1958, the oldest of seven siblings. In 1977 she became the drummer for a punk band, the Germs, then formed The Go-Go’s with friends a year later. Carlisle was lead singer for the all-female new wave band, and they sold more than seven million records, topping the charts with their album Beauty and the Beat , which featured the songs “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “We Got the Beat”, before splitting in 1985.

Carlisle went on to have a hugely successful solo career over the next decade, with global hits including “Heaven is a Place on Earth”, “Circle in the Sand” and “Leave a Light On”, and scoring double platinum albums and Grammy nominations. In 1991, The Go-Go’s reunited with a greatest hits album and tour, the first of many re

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