It All Started With Iggy Pop
One summer day in the late 70s, Belinda Carlisle walked into a record store in Southern California and came across an album cover that was hard to turn away from–Iggy Pop’s Raw Power. Microphone in hand, metallic silver pants, and eyes painted black, Iggy looked like an extraterrestrial freak. And Carlisle loved it.
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Through punk music, she discovered a world of satisfying anarchy. A world where you trash things for the sake of trashing, and the louder you were, the cooler you seemed. In 1976, Carlisle packed her bags and ditched her hometown in favor of Hollywood’s punk rock scene. There, she met Jane Wiedlin, and together they formed the most successful all-girl band of the ’80s.