"Turn to You" was the last of the band's five top 40 hits, reaching #32 on the charts and coming off the Go-Go's final studio album of the decade, 1984's Talk Show. Talk Show is an interesting album -- it received generally positive reviews, and was seen as a return to form after the somewhat disappointing Vacation LP. However, it did not do well from a sales perspective, peaking at #18 and failing to even go gold. In recent years the band has generally avoided playing material from this album in concert, leading some to speculate that the songs are associated with the difficult time around the Go-Go's breakup.
The video is something else, involving lots of early 1960s period details, a young Rob Lowe, the band members dressed as men, and the like. It was the band's first story video and I think they did a solid job with it.
Cool trivia fact: "Turn to You" was written by Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin and was inspired by Caffey's boyfriend at the time, baseball player Bob Welch.
Cool trivia fact #2: The video was directed by Mary Lambert, who directed a ton of 1980s videos, including Janet Jackson's "Nasty" and "Control" and Madonna's "Borderline," "Like a Virgin," "Material Girl," and "Like a Prayer." Lambert then transitioned to feature films; she mainly directs horror movies, including Pet Sematary and Pet Sematary II and most recently, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.
As a cool added bonus, we found some footage on the making of "Turn to You," which is presented below, for those who are interested.
Great Choice For This Site
ReplyDeleteEveryone LOVES The GO-GO's
Well No They Stopped After This If Not Before
Bad Tune Bad Video Not They Didn't Give It Their All
On A Record Company BUDGIT
I Appreciate When They Try To Capture "The Sixties"
And Have The Best 80's Guy Mullets Ever
Great (Crap) FUN!
More Please?
-Sam
WOW! GREAT FIND with the making of footage. LOVE your blog! Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and glad that you liked it.
ReplyDeletewhere was this filmed ?
ReplyDeleteI don't know where it was filmed, but will leave this up - perhaps someone out there knows.
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