The Go-Go's are an all-female American rock and roll group formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-woman band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard charts with a number-one album. <br /><br />Stylistically, their energetic music spanned pop-punk, surf, new wave, and rock. <br /><br />They rose to fame in the early-1980s and their unlikely break-thru success ushered in an era of new music in the U.S. Their debut album Beauty and the Beat is considered one of the cornerstone albums of American New Wave. <br /><br />In the beginning they played primarily pop punk and later defined themselves with the distinct sound of 1980s rock. The Go-Go's had five U.S. Top 40 hits.
