Belinda Carlisle on Covering ’60s and ’70s AM Radio Hits She Grew Up on for New Album, ‘Once Upon a Time in California,’ and This Year’s Go-Go’s Reunion

The Go-Go’s were good and all, but you know who really had the beat? The DJs who powered KHJ and KRLA in the 1960s and early ’70s, when seemingly every kid in Los Angeles was tuned in to one of just a couple of stations driving the city’s music culture. At least that is the working thesis behind Belinda Carlisle‘s just-released new album, “Once Upon a Time in California,” a collection of covers of some of the oldies that informed her own youth growing up in Burbank before she bacame part of the nascent punk incursion.

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