You're not always gonna get your way. We never broke up, but a lot of our hard work got overlooked because of the party image of the band. For Butler's Furs, a party image was never the problem. If anything, the band was considered one of the more mannered bands of the British invasion of the early 1980s. We take American influences and rewrap them and sell them back to the Americans.
English bands are more dressy and image-conscious.
These days, Butler is no less fashionable than ever. Setzer mostly keeps his tattoos under shiny smoking jackets onstage, but his blonde pompadour, though modified, is still his trademark look. When I look back at all the people and musicians I was friends with in the late '70s, I consider the Go-Go's incredibly lucky. We look pretty damn good. Despite the clothes and now-embarrassing hairdos, Wiedlin, Butler, Michaels and Setzer aren't afraid to look back on their continuing musical legacies.