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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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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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

Cyndi Lauper leads tributes as True Colors songwriter Billy Steinberg dies

Billy Steinberg wrote many mega-hits, including Madonna's Like a Virgin, The Bangles' Eternal Flame and Whitney Houston's So Emotional.

“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

“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’

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…

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“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

“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

"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 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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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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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