The Mid-’80s. Signing with Columbia, the Bangles released their 1984 debut, All Over the Place, and by the mid-1980s were an ’80s pop-rock sensation. The band’s second album, Different Light ...

Eventually Micki Steele joined on bass for the Bangles’ first album, “All Over the Place” (1984). When second album “Different Light” came out in 1986, the band bore emotional scars of a ...

Because of a potential lawsuit from a pre-existing band, The Bangs – loud, made-you-look, not rigidly gendered – became the softer, more overtly feminine The Bangles. The writing may have been ...

Susanna Hoffs, along with bandmates Vicki and Debbi Peterson, spoke about new book "Eternal Flame," recalling key events in the Bangles' chart-topping run in the 1980s and how the band shaped ...

The Bangles Tell Their Story of Coming Up in the ’80s L.A. Music Scene in New Band Biography ‘Eternal Flame’ Rudie Obias Wed, March 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM UTC ...

“Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!” a digital download-only 16-track reissue, should put to rest the Bangles’ image as fluffy, innocuous 1980s popsters — forever. It makes a clear-cut ...

The Bangles, from left: Vicki Peterson, Michael Steele, Susanna Hoffs and Debbi Peterson. The band broke big in the 1980s, scoring five Top 5 hits.

If one of the band's biggest hits, "Walk Like an Egyptian," was a novelty tune, the rest of its catalog was part of an older Los Angeles tradition: the 1960s pop of bands such as The Byrds, The ...

Susanna Hoffs talks about why The Bangles broke up and got back together, her favorite songs to perform, and how it was partying with The Go-Go's in Las Vegas. In 1986, you had to be living in the ...

Susanna Hoffs, along with bandmates Vicki and Debbi Peterson, spoke about new book "Eternal Flame," recalling key events in the Bangles' chart-topping run in the 1980s and how the band shaped ...