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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

“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

“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

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“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

“Walk Like an Egyptian was so silly. But solid players have asked, ‘What are you playing at the end?’” Vicki Peterson sees herself as “a bit of a hack player,” but she still made guitar-pop history with the Bangles – and guested with Tom Petty

She compares her work in The Bangles to what she’s doing now, lists the guitars she’d save from a house fire, and explains how she wound up with a Carvin in her collection

Guitar World

“I was too precious about what I was trying to do live. I have to remind myself onstage to just shut up and play”: Vicki Peterson on the invaluable lessons she learned with The Bangles – and how she stopped worrying about her guitar playing

The Bangles' guitarist and co-founder shares nuggets of wisdom on how to avoid overthinking your guitar playing in a live setting

Guitar World

“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

“Going to see an all-girl rock group, one has to bring a mixture of condescension and paranoia. What if they are good?” New study reveals how female guitarists have been denied credibility in the music press for over 60 years

A new research study examines the marginalization of female players in the music press

Guitar World

"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

Van Halen, Metallica, SRV, Iron Maiden, Rush, Dio, Yngwie, Vai and the greatest guitar albums of 1984 – only in the new Guitar World

Featuring new interviews with Ace Frehley, Alex Lifeson, Adrian Smith, Adrian Belew, Earl Slick, Mike Ness, Steve Vai, Vicki Peterson, Vivian Campbell, Yngwie Malmsteen and more

Guitar World

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

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