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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

Susanna Hoffs recalls the time that Prince invited the Bangles to the studio then upped and left without telling them: “We get there and we’re jamming, then suddenly we look around and he’s disappeared. ‘OK, I guess we’re done’”

Hoffs has just announced her first album of new material since 2012

MusicRadar

“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

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“Normally, people were happy to take his tracks, because he’s Prince. But we wanted to do the song our own way": When Prince gave the Bangles Manic Monday he assumed they would just sing over his demo, but the band had other ideas

“Luckily, Prince liked what we did," says Vicki Peterson

MusicRadar

“We’d get a note from the tour manager, ‘Prince is here and would loveto play with you.’ It was like, ‘What? Here, my take my guitar, please!’” Vicki Peterson on a gift from the Bangles’ most famous fan – and their garage approach to an ’80s pop classic

The heat was on. The label expected. And so, in 1986, the Bangles did what the Bangles did best – they put together a set of songs that had the whole world walking differently

Guitar World

Songwriter Billy Steinberg, who wrote monster hits for Heart, Pat Benatar, The Bangles, Madonna, The Pretenders and more, dead at 75

Songwriting legend Billy Steinberg passed away in Los Angeles on February 16

Louder

“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

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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

Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello celebrate Keith Richards' 81st birthday by dropping an unexpected Rolling Stones cover

"We both wanted to do the Keith part, but I won!" - Susanna Hoffs

Louder

"As I grew up, instead of wanting to marry Paul McCartney, I wanted to be him": How The Bangles wooed 1984 with their power-pop debut All Over The Place

A look back at four Beatles-crazed girls who jangled, spangled, and sang excellent harmonies

Louder

"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

Things to do in Chicago Nov. 16-22: The Mix

“Boop! The Betty Boop Musical,” the City’s official tree lighting ceremony, and the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival area among the cool things to check out in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

‘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

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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

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

WEKU

Susanna Hoffs' 'This Bird Has Flown' is a love story — and a valentine to music

Singer and guitarist Susanna Hoffs rose to fame with the Bangles in the 1980s. With her new book, she proves her immense writing talent isn't just confined to songs.

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