“How Much More” by The Go-Go's

"How Much More" had already done a lap before the Go-Go's cut it for Beauty and the Beat: it first surfaced in 1980 on the band's debut single alongside "We Got the Beat", and the version on their 1981 debut album is a fresh recording. Charlotte Caffey started it shortly after joining the band and Jane Wiedlin helped her finish it, part of a burst of writing early in 1980 that also turned up "We Got the Beat" and "Lust to Love".

Caffey was nervous bringing it in. The Go-Go's were still mostly a punk band, and this was out-and-out pop about a relationship; they couldn't play all that well yet, so it came out melodic but raw, and a new sound was born. Belinda Carlisle sings lead with Caffey and Wiedlin behind her, and Richard Gottehrer and Rob Freeman produced.

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