{"id":78699,"date":"2021-11-08T00:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T08:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=78699"},"modified":"2021-11-08T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T08:14:44","slug":"go-gos-get-inducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/11\/08\/go-gos-get-inducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-Go&#8217;s Get Inducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For eons, <strong><em>The Go-Go\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>bemoaned the fact that the <em>Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame <\/em>would never acknowledge their place in music history.&nbsp; Anger turned to acceptance and eventually, the girls embraced their status as underdogs.&nbsp; Of course, this led to them being accepted \u2013 isn\u2019t that the way it always is?&nbsp; <em>The Go-Go\u2019s <\/em>were inducted last week, alongside such artists as <strong>Tina Turner<\/strong>, <strong>Carole King<\/strong>, and <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong>.&nbsp; An early fan, <strong>Drew Barrymore<\/strong>, introduced the ladies \u2013 and did so by donning a bath towel and putting cold cream on her face&#8230;an homage to <em>The Go-Go\u2019s <\/em>first album, <strong><em>Beauty and the Beat<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Watching <strong>Kathy Valentine<\/strong>, <strong>Gina Schock<\/strong>, <strong>Charlotte Caffey<\/strong>, <strong>Belinda Carlisle <\/strong>and <strong>Jane Wiedlin <\/strong>on that stage, I was struck by how emotional they were.&nbsp; Clearly being accepted meant more than they could have imagined.&nbsp; The entire ceremony will be broadcast on <em>HBO Max <\/em>on November 20<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Pasadena Playhouse <\/em>is mounting a production of <strong><em>Head Over Heels<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The <em>Broadway <\/em>show, which features music by <em>The Go-Go\u2019s<\/em>, has been thoroughly re-imagined and trimmed down to a one-act, 90-minute immersive romp taking place throughout the venue and encouraging dancing from the audience.&nbsp; Even better, it features our pals <strong>Alaska Thunderfuck <\/strong>as Queen Gynecia and <strong>Lea DeLaria <\/strong>as King Basilius \u2013 you\u2019re not gonna find a queerer royal couple than that!&nbsp; It runs through December 12<sup>th<\/sup>, so grab your tickets now at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.PasadenaPlayhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>PasadenaPlayhouse.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For eons, The Go-Go\u2019s bemoaned the fact that the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame would never acknowledge their place in music history.&nbsp; Anger turned to acceptance and eventually, the girls embraced their status as underdogs.&nbsp; Of course, this led to them being accepted \u2013 isn\u2019t that the way it always is?&nbsp; The Go-Go\u2019s were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78700,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699\/revisions\/78700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}