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This 12"h x 14"w image size (12"h x 17-3/4"w overall print size) digital color print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Supreme glossy photo stock is from a limited edition of 250, signed, titled and numbered by the artist, photographer George DuBose.
Shipped unmatted/unframed
In George's words - "I went to visit my friend, Michael Plen, the promotion director for IRS Records, to ask him if I could shoot the up-and-coming Go-Gos for Andy Warhol's 'Interview' magazine.
Michael said the Go-Gos didn't need a photo for the magazine - they needed an album cover.
I shot the band in the bathtub in their hotel and I shot them again in my studio. This photo was the cover of The Go-Gos 'Beauty and the Beat, and it was my first platinum record.
The negatives were then lost for 23 years and turned up in the manager's garage, when she was moving homes."
In 1981, Southern California’s Go-Go’s became first all-girl band of musicians/songwriters to have a #1 album on the Billboard Magazine Pop Charts with Beauty and the Beat. Their music conveyed a vibrant, fun-filled sense of the So. Ca. lifestyle, mixing rock, punk and surf music basics into an extremely radio-friendly package, as was well-demonstrated in their hits “We Got The Beat” (which had been released independently on Stiff Records) and “Our Lips Are Sealed”.
Signed to Miles Copeland’s I.R.S. records, home of The Police (and, within a short time, The Bangles, The Beat, The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, R.E.M, Timbuk 3, and a host of other acts), the band toured extensively and were nominated for a Grammy for "Best New Artist" at the 24th Grammy Awards (losing to Sheena Easton). |
