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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

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 · Aug 5

“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

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

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 · Dec 18, 2024

"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 · Mar 21, 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

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 · Nov 16, 2023

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