Go Go Live at the Capital Centre

{{Infobox album

| name = Go Go Live at the Capital Centre

| type = live

| artist = Various Artists

| cover = GoGoLiveCapitalCentre1987.png

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| released = December 18, 1987{{cite news|title=Go-Go, Alive and on Tape|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/12/16/go-go-alive-and-on-tape/00319acb-00ac-4398-bb28-bea610967c8b/|first=Richard |last=Harrington |date=December 16, 1987 |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=August 11, 2016}}

| recorded =

| venue = Capital Centre
Landover, Maryland

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist| Go-go | old-school hip hop }}

| length = {{Duration|m=100|s=00}}{{cite web|title=Various Artist: Go Go Live at the Capital Centre |url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Go-Go-Live-At-The-Capital-Centre/release/810314 |publisher=Discogs|access-date=August 11, 2016}}

| label = I Hear Ya Records

| producer = Darryll Brooks

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = ARTISTdirect

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|title=Go Go Live at the Capitol Centre|url=http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,92941,00.html|publisher=ARTISTdirect|access-date=3 November 2016 }}

| rev2 = Los Angeles Times

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite web|title=Concert Video Pulls Out the Stop-Stops to Capture Washington's Go-Go Scene |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-18-ca-19928-story.html |first=Richard |last=Harrington |date=December 18, 1987 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 November 2016}}

| rev3 = Robert Christgau

| rev3Score = {{Rating-Christgau|B+}}{{cite web |first=Robert |last=Christgau |title=Review: Go Go Live at the Capital Centre |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=4868 |publisher=Robert Christgau |access-date=23 September 2016}}

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Go Go Live at the Capital Centre was a concert performance by various prominent go-go bands and hip-hop artists based in the Washington metropolitan area.{{cite book |last1=Lornell |first1=Kip |last2=Stephenson, Jr. |first2=Charles C. |date=2001 |title=The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop |publisher=Billboard Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/beatgogosfusion00lorn/page/206 206, 223] |isbn=0-8230-7727-6 }}{{cite book|last1=Lornell |first1=Kip |last2=Stephenson, Jr. |first2=Charles C. |date=2009 |title=The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |pages=221–224 |isbn=978-1-60473-241-2}}{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |author-link1=Dave Thompson (author) |year=2001 |chapter=Part Four: The New School |title=Funk: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIEjkWXZdrMC |edition=1st |location=San Francisco |publisher=BackBeat Books |pages=297–299 |isbn=0-87930-629-7}} It was recorded live in October 1987 at the Capital Centre (a defunct indoor arena in Landover, Maryland). The double–cassette was released by "I Hear Ya Records" on December 18, 1987, and the video recording was released on VHS-tape by "G Street Express" on the same day.

The concert was a sold-out event with over 24,000 concert-goers in attendance. This concert also marked the first time an all go-go lineup exclusively headlined an event at the Capital Center.{{cite episode|title=From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music |url=http://wamu.org/story/14/02/14/from_go_gos_heyday_to_today_one_musicians_love_affair_with_dc_music/ |access-date=2 December 2016 |series=The Kojo Nnamdi Show |last1=Nnamdi |first1=Kojo |author-link=Kojo Nnamdi |station=WAMU |date=February 14, 2014 }}