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#400 The Go-Go’s, 'Beauty and the Beat' (1981)

This was the perfect follow up from Blondie. They shared a producer in Richard Gottehrer. The took the New Wave sound popularised by Blondie and made it their own. Fronted by future pop superstar in her own right, Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go’s would go on to become one of the most successful all-female bands of all time.

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