Because of a potential lawsuit from a pre-existing band, The Bangs – loud, made-you-look, not rigidly gendered – became the ...
Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.
A new authorized biography of The Bangles says that it wasn't just that they were an all-female band that perplexed the male-dominated world of 1980s pop music, it was that they were an all-female ...