“So he said, ‘I'm envisioning a very kind of crafted little arrangement, kind of like a music box’”: The story of the delicate, human-sized power ballad that was the Bangles’ last hurrah

The BanglesDebbi Peterson, Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson, Michael Steele,.

It was a huge hit - Number One on both sides of the Atlantic and over a million copies sold worldwide. For a while, in the spring of 1989, wherever you were in the world, Eternal Flame was inescapable.

It was one of those monster singles, like My Heart Will Go On, Every Breath You Take or more recently Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, that have such a large gravitational pull that every note and word becomes imprinted upon your memory - whether you like it or not.