I AM GO-GO™ is built to grow without pretending that every historical question is settled.
Recordings, flyers, photographs, newspapers, advertisements, programs, public records and material created close to the event.
Books, articles, institutional collections, documentaries, interviews, catalogs and public archives.
Firsthand accounts, identifications and corrections are valuable leads and are reviewed alongside other evidence before public claims are strengthened.
Uncertainty is labeled rather than hidden.
Supported by evidence strong enough for the stated claim.
Useful date or detail, but not exact enough to present as confirmed.
Attributed to a source or firsthand account and not yet fully corroborated.
Active lead or question still being worked.
These are examples of the evidence now being connected to public research threads. A source can support a specific claim without settling every question around it.
Women in Go-Go: documents Karis Hill opening for Rare Essence with the all-female band Klyxx in the early 1980s and separately discusses members of Pleasure later in the decade.
Open Smithsonian source →Officer Friendly Side By Side Band: documents D.C. police musicians performing R&B and funk in schools and public events, useful to the broader civic/community music history of the period.
Open Washington Post source →The official film site explicitly places Go-Go, crews and graffiti inside its portrait of 1980s Washington, D.C., making it a useful visual-culture source trail.
Open film source →A long-running community resource with Go-Go history pages and audio/jukebox material. I AM GO-GO™ uses it as a research lead and comparison source, then checks important claims against additional evidence.
For media placements, the archive checks exact song and performer credits against production/soundtrack records before promoting a lead to verified.
Film, episode or documentary title and year.
Song title and credited performer—not just a genre or artist mention.
Soundtrack, production, label, rights or equivalent credit source.