However, in May 2020 the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Go-Go's announced an 11-date reunion tour scheduled to begin in June 2020. Although scheduled to begin in July, the tour was canceled because of ACL tears that Wiedlin had suffered in both knees after falling during a nighttime hike. In 2010, the Go-Go's announced their "Happily Ever After" farewell tour. The album's title and concept came from Wiedlin.
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Īfter a series of reunions during the 1990s, Wiedlin, Carlisle, Caffey, Schock and Valentine reunited in 2000 to record God Bless the Go-Go's, their first studio album in 17 years. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 20, where it remained until 1982. In 1981, Wiedlin and Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three and the Specials co-wrote " Our Lips Are Sealed". Wiedlin and Belinda Carlisle formed the Go-Go's as a punk band in 1978, with Margot Olaverra on bass and Elissa Bello on drums. She became part of the scene that spawned bands such as X, the Germs and the Weirdos. Under the moniker Jane Drano, she would later design punk-style clothing that she sold at Granny Takes a Trip, a store on Sunset Boulevard. While attending college in the Los Angeles area for fashion design, she worked at a fashion-design house where she created song lyrics by scribbling ideas on clothing patterns. Career The Go-Go's Īccording to Wiedlin, she was present "pretty much from the beginning" of the Los Angeles punk scene. I thought life was completely pointless when I was in high school, but just a few short years later I was having the adventure of a lifetime in a successful rock band!" She attended William Howard Taft High School in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1976.
Wiedlin has said, "I remember my childhood as extremely idyllic." She has also mentioned her adolescence with angst and hope by saying, "I was a depressed teenager. When she was six, her father took a job with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs at a VA hospital in Los Angeles, and the family followed.
During Wiedlin's early childhood, her family lived in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is one of five children, with a sister and three brothers, and was raised Catholic. Wiedlin's parents met while students at Marquette University. Her mother, Betty Jane (née Herro), was of Lebanese heritage, from Oconomowoc, where many immigrants from Lebanon settled.
Her father, Robert Arthur Wiedlin Sr., an oral surgeon of German and Swiss ancestry, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Wiedlin was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. As an actress, she had roles as the singing telegram girl in Clue (1985) and as Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).Īs a member of The Go-Go's, Wiedlin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a solo artist, Wiedlin had her biggest hit with the song " Rush Hour", which peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Go-Go's went on to become one of the most successful American bands of the 1980s, helping popularize new wave music with hits such as " We Got the Beat", " Our Lips Are Sealed", and " Vacation". She has also had a successful solo career. Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20, 1958) is an American musician and singer, best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the new wave band The Go-Go's.
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