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Hoffs was lead vocalist on five of the seven Columbia singles by the Bangles, which contributed to a public perception that she was a lead singer, even though all four members took lead vocals across their output. Following tensions including resentment at Hoffs' perceived leadership and the stress of touring, the band split in 1989.
The Bangles performing at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 2007. In the spring of 2009, the Bangles returned to the studio to begin work on a new album entitled Sweetheart of the Sun, which was released on September 27, 2011. [40] The band went on tour in late 2011 in support of it, with dates on the East Coast, Midwest and West ...
(Photo: Shervin Lainez) If you've not followed Susanna Hoffs since her days as the big-haired, honey-voiced, side-eyeing lead singer of the seminal ’80s band the Bangles, you've got some ...
In 1999 the Bangles reformed and have recorded and played sporadically. Peterson married musician John Cowsill, brother of her Continental Drifters and Psycho Sisters bandmate Susan Cowsill, on October 25, 2003. The couple have no children together. [4] An earlier relationship had ended when her fiancé Bobby Donati died of leukemia in 1991. [5]
Prince wrote "Manic Monday" in 1984, and recorded it as a duet for the band Apollonia 6's self-titled album, but he eventually pulled the song. [6] Two years later, he offered the single to the Bangles under the pseudonym "Christopher", [7] [8] a character he played in the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon. [9]
Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs has written a novel, 'This Bird Has Flown,' about an 'over-the-hill' one-hit wonder finding love — and it kind of rocks. The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs wrote her debut ...
The Bangles' 1988 album Everything would feature two Hoffs/Kelly/Steinberg compositions, both with lead vocals by Hoffs: the upbeat lead single "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame". The "Eternal Flame" metaphor was suggested by two eternal flames: one at the gravesite of Elvis Presley at Graceland, where the Bangles had been given a private tour. [4]
A native of Southern California, Zilinskas was born in Van Nuys and was recruited into The Bangs, which later became The Bangles, as bass guitarist. She played bass and harmonica on The Bangles' eponymously titled 5-track EP , but left the band to join Blood on the Saddle as lead singer before The Bangles' first album.