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Charlotte Irene Caffey (born October 21, 1953) is an American guitarist, best known for her work in the rock band the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing " We Got the Beat".
The Go-Go's official website
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Lovelace: A Rock Musical
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caffey, Charlotte 1953 births Living people Musicians from Glendale, California Immaculate Heart College alumni American rock guitarists Singer-songwriters from California Writers from Glendale, California The Go-Go's members Lead guitarists American new wave musicians American women singer-songwriters American rock songwriters American women rock singers American women pop singers Guitarists from California Alumni of Immaculate Heart High School, Los Angeles 20th-century American women singers 20th-century American women guitarists 20th-century American guitarists 21st-century American women guitarists 21st-century American guitarists 21st-century American women singers Germs (band) members The Graces (band) members 20th-century American singers 21st-century American singers
Career
Caffey began her musical career playing bass guitar in the early Los Angeles punk band The Eyes before joining the Go-Go's in 1978 and switching to guitar. She remained friends with fellow band member Belinda Carlisle after the initial breakup of the Go-Go's and wrote songs for Carlisle's solo albums. From 1988 until 1992, she led her own band, The Graces, with Meredith Brooks andGia Ciambotti
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, who released the album ''Perfect View'' in 1989. Caffey also co-wrote the theme song to the television series '' Clueless'' with Anna Waronker
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, and played piano on the album version of " Foolish Games" by Jewel, as well as co-writing the No. 1 U.S. country hit " But for the Grace of God" with Keith Urban.
Caffey wrote the book, music, and lyrics for '' Lovelace: A Rock Musical'' with Anna Waronker. The rock musical debuted at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles in 2008. A new production of ''Lovelace: A Rock Musical'' made its United Kingdom debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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in August 2010. A number of her songs were featured in the 2018 debut of the Broadway musical '' Head Over Heels'', with a story suggested by Philip Sidney
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's '' Arcadia'' set to the songs of the Go-Go's and Belinda Carlisle.
The Go-Go's announced an 11-date reunion tour scheduled to begin in June 2020; however, in May 2020 the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021 it was announced that The Go-Go's would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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.
The band confirmed plans for a 2022 UK tour with Billy Idol that would start in June 2022. The band was forced to postpone a short West Coast tour scheduled for the first week of January 2022 due to a COVID-19 case involving someone on the tour. New rescheduled dates for the shows would be announced very soon.
Personal life
She grew up in Glendale, California, and graduated from Immaculate Heart College. She is also in Ze Malibu Kids with her husband, the Redd Kross singer and guitarist Jeff McDonald. Their only child, a daughter named Astrid McDonald, was born in 1995 and is a singer and model. She was the fourth of twelve children born to Ann (née Gorey) and Michael Caffey (died 2017), an American network television series episode director from the mid-1960s on into the 1990s (The Virginian, Dukes of Hazzard, Barnaby Jones, MacGyver, CHiPs, T.J. Hooker). Charlotte semi-retired from regular performances in the late 1980s because of cripplingcarpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the collection of symptoms and signs associated with median neuropathy at the carpal tunnel. Most CTS is related to idiopathic compression of the median nerve as it travels through the wrist at the carpal tunn ...
.
Discography
With The Go-Go's
* 1981: '' Beauty and the Beat'' (IRS
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)
* 1982: ''Vacation
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'' (I.R.S.)
* 1984: ''Talk Show
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'' (I.R.S.)
* 2001: '' God Bless The Go-Go's'' (Beyond Music)
With The Graces
* 1989: ''Perfect View'' ( A&M)Also appears on
* 1980:The Specials
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– '' More Specials'' (2 Tone
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) – backing vocals
* 1982: Robert Williams – ''Late One Night'' (A&M) – vocals on track 8, "Gotta Be Nice"
* 1986: Belinda Carlisle – '' Belinda'' (I.R.S.) – vocals, guitar
* 1988: Blake Xolton – ''Cool on My Skin'' (New Rose) – vocals
* 1995: Jewel – '' Pieces of You'' (Atlantic
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) – arranger, piano
* 1998: Penelope Houston – ''Tongue'' (Reprise) – guitar, vocals on track 2, "Tongue"
References
External links
The Go-Go's official website
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Lovelace: A Rock Musical
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caffey, Charlotte 1953 births Living people Musicians from Glendale, California Immaculate Heart College alumni American rock guitarists Singer-songwriters from California Writers from Glendale, California The Go-Go's members Lead guitarists American new wave musicians American women singer-songwriters American rock songwriters American women rock singers American women pop singers Guitarists from California Alumni of Immaculate Heart High School, Los Angeles 20th-century American women singers 20th-century American women guitarists 20th-century American guitarists 21st-century American women guitarists 21st-century American guitarists 21st-century American women singers Germs (band) members The Graces (band) members 20th-century American singers 21st-century American singers