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American Morning
Go-Go's Reclaim Their Beat
Aired May 23, 2001 - 11:43 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We have a real country and western horse opera this morning. Country singer Tim McGraw came out swinging in court Tuesday, saying that he didn't attack Buffalo sheriff's deputies last June. McGraw took the stand yesterday, saying that he expected an apology, not an arrest, from police.
He told the jury he was trying to help fellow singer Kenny Chesney get down from a police horse. Chesney claims he didn't know it was a police horse. McGraw faces a jail term of up to a year if convicted on the misdemeanor charge.
Our lips aren't sealed, the Go-Go's are back. The groundbreaking girl rockers of the 80's are now grown women, some are even moms, and with the wisdom of age on their side, they have decided to reunite. They've got a new album, and they're on new tour. They took some time out of it to tell our Michael Okwu why the Go-Go's got-got back together.
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("UNFORGIVEN," GO-GO'S)
BELINDA CARLISLE, GO-GO'S: Since 1990, we've actually worked together off and on for the past 10 or 11 years, doing a little bit of touring here and there and some recordings for retrospectives and best of albums.
KATHY VALENTINE, GO-GO'S: And once we realized when we got together that there was still a lot of chemistry between us -- you could wait 25 years, and if you put us in the same time and place, something happens and we -- you know, it ignites.
("UNFORGIVEN," GO-GO'S)
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: How would you describe this album?
CARLISLE: I think lyrically it's, you know, as someone said, it's 15 years since the last album. That's 15 years and, you know, times that by five people and that's 75 years of drama. And I think in those 75 years, we've all learned a little bit something about life, and it's reflected in the lyrics, I think. It's a Go-Go's album, but the Go-Go's as women. GINA SCHOCK, GO-GO'S: And another thing, it sounds like we sound live, which is something we've always wanted to capture and haven't in any of the previous records. So, that's really exciting for us, because the record rocks.
OKWU: Well, just about everything on this album could have been pulled off on one of the old albums, with the exception of that last track, which is, I got to say, my favorite.
CARLISLE: He loves "Daisy Chain."
("DAISY CHAIN," GO-GO'S)
OKWU: That's an autobiographical.
VALENTINE: Absolutely.
OKWU: Tell me about it.
CARLISLE: Well, it's basically telling the story of the Go-Go's from the beginning to the end.
(GO-GO'S)
OKWU: Do you ever wonder what, if there weren't as many drugs in the past, there wasn't as much of a rock star life that you led -- what if you had never stopped playing together?
VALENTINE: Yes.
CARLISLE: Yes.
SCHOCK: Yes.
CARLISLE: The drugs definitely put a...
SCHOCK: Well, they didn't make it any easier, let's face it.
CARLISLE: They didn't make any of the other things easier, but there were a lot of other things. It was total burnout and we were overworked. We didn't know how to say no.
SCHOCK: And we also didn't deal -- I mean, we deal with each other much differently now. We communicate.
("UNFORGIVEN," GO-GO'S)
OKWU: Back then, if you had seen a group of women getting together in their 40's to tour and be a rock band, you would have said, well, who are these women?
(LAUGHTER)
VALENTINE: That's what people are saying. We're going to starts a place called Branson By-The-Sea for where old Go-Go's go.
CARLISLE: We have all sorts of ideas.
SCHOCK: We're going to open up Go-Go stripper clubs all over.
OKWU: Now you are talking.
VALENTINE: That's so cool.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SYDNEY: They're still good-good. And when we return, the passing of a beloved sitcom sidekick. Stay tuned.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
SYDNEY: Some sad news from TV land this morning: Grady from "Sanford and Son" is dead. Actor Whitman Mayo died in Atlanta yesterday at age 70. A veteran of TV and movies, he was best known as Red Foxx's sidekick on the long running sitcom "Sanford and Son." Mayo's character was so popular that he starred in the spin-off show "Grady" in 1975.
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