On March 15, 1986, the band's legendary song "Manic Monday," broke the Top 20 on Billboard 's Hot 100, with the pop-rock anthem coming in at No. 19. It would peak at No. 2 just weeks later on April 19 ...
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 ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The silliest ...
If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful thing. Her voice was crystalline, her charisma was magnetic, and the way she ...
What do Akron, Ohio, the English Channel, and Egypt have in common? If you were to say “nothing,” we wouldn’t blame you for the assumption. But thanks to The Bangles’ first No. 1 single from 1986, ...
British singer-songwriter Jade Bird puts her spin on the Bangles‘ 1986 hit “Walk Like an Egyptian” for a new Spotify Singles session, along with her own tune “Uh Huh.” In its original incarnation, ...
If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful thing. Her voice was crystalline, her charisma was magnetic, and the way she ...
One of last year's most delightful surprises in music came courtesy of Susanna Hoffs, whose third solo LP, Someday, recalls the spirit and sophisticated songcraft of some of the '60s and early '70s' ...
Susanna Hoffs is throwing it back to 1986 with a steamy video from the Bangles' heyday! The legendary singer, who is known as the frontwoman for the ’80s all-girl band the Bangles, 67, skyrocketed to ...