The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The Go-Go's

When a successful band breaks up, the aftermath is far more complicated than its members simply not writing or recording songs together. It's more like the closing of a business, with legal and financial contracts and agreements officially dissolved. That's what happened when the Go-Go's split up in 1985 the band's company, the Go-Go's

When a successful band breaks up, the aftermath is far more complicated than its members simply not writing or recording songs together. It's more like the closing of a business, with legal and financial contracts and agreements officially dissolved. That's what happened when the Go-Go's split up in 1985 — the band's company, the Go-Go's Partnership, which once actively oversaw the management of the group's catalog and finances, shut down. 

After that happened, former Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock alleged in a 1997 lawsuit (according to MTV News), that band guitarist and songwriter Charlotte Caffey received substantial amounts of Go-Go's related money and "failed to distribute it" properly to her former groupmates. In other words, Schock believed that she was owed royalty payments and that Caffey sat on them. In the suit, the drummer alleged, among other crimes, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. Seeking $100,000, the suit was quietly settled, and according to the Seattle Times, Schock and Caffey signed an agreement to not discuss the case any further.

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