Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story. By Bob Mehr Reporting from Los Angeles The first ...

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For members of The Bangles, the quintessential all-female band of the 1980s, “Walk Like An Egyptian” was an aberration — not just a departure from their rock-influenced roots, but running counter to ...

In 1988, it felt like the Bangles had been touring endlessly. Our second album, Different Light, with the singles Manic Monday and Walk Like an Egyptian, had been released two years earlier. Now, ...

We also reveal why she was completely NAKED when she recorded her vocals for hit song SUSANNA Hoffs adorned the walls of many a teenage boy’s bedroom in her 1980s heyday. Fast-forward 30 years to 2016 ...

Susanna Hoffs still shudders at the thought her power ballad, Eternal Flame, nearly didn’t make it to the airways. The song became one of the biggest hits of the 80s but it almost wasn’t recorded at ...

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