Believe it or not, before the popular ’80s band the Go-Gos hit the bigtime, there was a moment in time when they were punk rocking around Los Angeles on a shoestring budget. It’s true! Over on the official Go-Gos Instagram, they just shared a hilarious story about the photo shoot props used in the cover art for their debut album Beauty and the Beat, which was released in 1981. <\/p>\n
The iconic cover for the Beauty and the Beat album depicts all five members of the super-cool girl group wrapped in white bath towels<\/a>, dawning full cream facial masks (this was before sheet masks, people). A day at the spa, perhaps, is the story this photo may have been trying to tell in its time. But based on the actual first-person story about the photo shoot shared from behind the scenes, the Go-Gos were not actually lapping it up at a luxurious LA spa. Quite the opposite, in fact.<\/p>\n The wild backstory about the album cover, as attributed to Ginger Canzoneri, the original manager of 1980s power pop group, who also helped art direct the shoot, reads: “I gave the girls strict instructions not to get the towels dirty because I had to return them to Macy’s.” Canzoneri then points out, “Someone somewhere bought towels that were worn on the Go-Go’s package.”<\/p>\n Can you imagine what those towels would have gone for on eBay\u2014if we knew then what we know know and, you know, if eBay had existed then?<\/p>\n The Go-Gos famously included Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Charlotte Caffey (lead guitar and keyboards), Jane Wiedlin (rhythm guitar), Gina Schock (drums), and Kathy Valentine<\/a> (bass). Songs on the Beauty and the Beat album include several unforgettable hits, including “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” two songs permanently imprinted on many Gen X hearts.<\/p>\n Learn more about the making of the band in their 2020 documentary The Go-Gos,<\/a> streaming on Apple.<\/p>\n Related: \u201880s Pop Queen Belinda Carlisle, 67, Makes Waiting at the Airport Look Glamorous in Beautiful Selfie<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfacSIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/a>\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Mar 6, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Believe it or not, before the popular ’80s band the Go-Gos hit the bigtime, there was a moment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[232032,236,88,232034,232033,232031,127054],"class_list":["post-511573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bath-towels","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ginger-canzoneri","tag-go-gos","tag-go-gos-instagram","tag-photo-shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}