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Susanna Hoffs: Prince ‘changed my life’ by giving Manic Monday to The Bangles

Hoffs said that she kept in touch with Prince ‘as much as I could’ before his death in 2016.

Evening Standard · Sep 6

“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

Band broke up shortly after it reached Number One

MusicRadar · May 16

“I created the guitar parts. I was super jet-lagged and loopy, but I was able to focus, and we created the song. Natalie’s version is extremely similar”: How Paul McCartney’s guitarist Rusty Anderson helped to shape the sound of a classic ’90s hit

Plus: Rusty's early years with Van Halen, the Bangles and more

MusicRadar · Mar 17

“I knew that to do something so blatantly pop… there was a resistance”: Guitarist in huge ‘80s power-pop band says she had reservations about their biggest hit, which was released shortly before they broke up

“I was a freakin’ rebel. I was determined to make The Bangles the rock band that we started out as," says Vicki Peterson

MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025

The Bangles: ‘If we were a boyband, we’d have just punched each other out’

INTERVIEW: The women behind ‘Eternal Flame’ and ‘Manic Monday’ were among the most successful – and history-making – pop groups of the Eighties… until they were torn apart. As a new book dives into their decade of stardom, Susanna Hoffs and Vicki and Debbi Peterson speak to Adam White about…

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

“Our first show with Van Halen, he was playing a red ES-335. I thought he was a very good player, but not unique. He evolved leaps and bounds”: Rusty Anderson on his session journey – from supporting Van Halen to joining Paul McCartney’s band

The Gibson signature artist on why a rack makes most sense on tour, his approach to session work from Elton John to the Bangles, and how to keep feeling challenged with solo work

Guitar World · Jun 13, 2024

"The only people who weren’t into it were the other three girls in the band": Susanna Hoffs says her bandmates in The Bangles believed Eternal Flame wasn't good enough to be an album track, never mind a single

The Bangles vocalist/guitarist Susanna Hoffs viewed Eternal Flame as the best song she'd ever written. Her bandmates did not share her enthusiasm at all

Louder · Jan 5, 2024

Bangles' classic Eternal Flame originally REJECTED by band leaving songwriter 'bereft'

Susanna Hoff, one of the co-founders of The Bangles, recalled her bandmates didn't want the iconic love song on their third album back in the 1980s , leaving her devastated

Daily Mirror · May 21, 2023

‘It’s an opportunity to pull back the curtain’: the rock’n’roll novel is back – from a female perspective

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles’ tale of a one-hit wonder is the latest in a new wave of music novels written by women

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

Michael J Fox says he doesn’t remember dating The Bangles star Susanna Hoffs in the Eighties

‘Look at all the girls I dated. Some of them I can’t even remember,’ actor said in new interview

The Independent UK · May 7, 2023