Belinda Carlisle performed her forthcoming single Big Big Love during her BBC Radio 2 Piano Room set.
The Go-Go’s legends stopped by the station’s Maida Vale studios for a three-track set, which also featured her classic solo hit Heaven is a Place on Earth and a cover of The Carpenters’ Superstar.
Following the performance, she tweeted: “Thank you to my wonderful band for their support, to the BBC Concert Orchestra for their beautiful playing, Richard Balcombe for the wonderful arrangements, Dan Roberts for producing and all the staff at BBC Maida Vale for making the day go so easy.”
Belinda released her most-recent English-language pop record, ‘A Woman and A Man’, in 1996, before hitting pause on her recording career while focussing on her live shows.
In the years since, she’s released music sporadically, including the French-language ‘Voila’ in 2007 and Sikh chant album ‘Wilder Shores’ a decade later, but now she’s back with a series of brand new projects, due for release over 2023 and 2024.
“It’s so weird, because I was going to retire. Just work occasionally and live a nice life. Then my son ran into [songwriter] Diane Warren at Starbucks and she goes, ‘What is your mom doing?’ He says, ‘I don’t know,’ and she goes, ‘Oh, then let’s call her!’. She has the foulest language in the business and she goes, ‘Bitch, what are you doing? I have some hits for you’,” Belinda tells RETROPOP’s January 2023 cover feature.
“I was like, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ Because it’s a big commitment when you do something like that. But I went to the studio and I don’t even know what to say – it was so good. There are about three singles on the EP and they’re incredible.”
The EP is due in the spring via BMG with its lead single, Big Big Love, out “around March 10”.
