Capitol/I.R.S. have set a May 17 release date for 30th Anniversary Edition of The Go-Go's double platinum debut album, Beauty and the Beat, which has been digitally remastered and expanded for this special release. The commemorative edition will be available in a 2CD package and in two digital collections featuring the remastered original album plus exclusive, previously unreleased concert audio recordings from 1981.
On the same date, the remastered original album will be reissued on pink vinyl with replicated original artwork.
Beauty and the Beat was the Go-Go's debut album, released in 1981 by I.R.S. Records. The album hit #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, and was the first album to top the chart by an all-female band that wrote and performed its own songs. The album's singles, "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat," also charted in several countries, fueling album sales of more than two million in the U.S. alone. Beauty and the Beat is considered one of the decade's defining albums and it is on Rolling Stone's list of the '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
The Go-Go's will hit the road this summer on their Ladies Gone Wild tour, a national U.S. trek with the legendary Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Jane Wiedlin and Kathy Valentine. The tour will include a very special Los Angeles homecoming show at the Greek Theater on August 17, Belinda's birthday.
In August, the Go-Go's will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat [2CD; digital collection 1]
Disc 1 (original album, remastered)
1. Our Lips Are Sealed
2. How Much More
3. Tonite
4. Lust To Love
5. This Town
6. We Got The Beat
7. Fading Fast
8. Automatic
9. You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
10. Skidmarks On Your Heart
11. Can't Stop The World
Disc 2 (Live At The Metro in Boston, 1981 – ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
1. Skidmarks On Your Heart
2. How Much More
3. Tonite
4. Fading Fast
5. London Boys
6. Cool Jerk
7. Automatic
8. Lust To Love
9. Can't Stop The World
10. This Town
11. You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
12. Our Lips Are Sealed
13. Let's Have a Party
14. We Got The Beat
15. Surfing And Spying
16. (Remember) Walking In The Sand
17. Vacation
The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat [digital collection 2]
1. Our Lips Are Sealed 9. You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
2. How Much More 10. Skidmarks On My Heart
3. Tonite 11. Can't Stop The World
4. Lust To Love 12. Skidmarks On My Heart (Live)
5. This Town 13. Can't Stop The World (Live)
6. We Got The Beat 14. Our Lips Are Sealed (Live)
7. Fading Fast 15. Let's Have A Party (Live)
8. Automatic 16. We Got The Beat (Live)
The Go-Go's: Ladies Gone Wild Tour
May
29 Hershey, PA Hershey Theater
June
1 Morristown, NJ Community Theater at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
3 New York, NY Irving Plaza
4 Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues
5 Mashantucket, CT MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods
7 Westbury, NY Theater at Westbury
9 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion (w/ the B-52s)
10 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts/The Filene Center
11 Orlando, FL Universal Studios Florida – Music Plaza Stage
14 Apple Valley, MN Zoo Amphitheater
16 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theater (w/ the B-52s)
17 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Festival (w/ the B-52s)
18 Kettering, OH Fraze Pavilion for the Performing Arts (w/ the B-52s)
August
12 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
13 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
14 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo
16 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
17 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theater
20 Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino
23 Aspen, CO Belly Up
24 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
26 Dallas, TX House of Blues
27 Houston, TX House of Blues
28 Austin, TX Paramount Theater