Girl groups were becoming popular again in the 1980s, and The Bangles were one of the best. Their eight-year collaboration produced some of the most essential hits of the decade, including “Manic ...

1986 was the big breakthrough year for L.A.-based pop-rock band The Bangles. After touring heavily in support of their 1984 Columbia Records debut All Over the Place, the all-female quartet needed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big ...

The Bangles hit an impressive commercial peak with their 1986 album Different Light. Although the quartet scored bigger hits from the album, they might have given their finest performance on the ...

The 1980s were a good decade for all-girl bands, what with The Go-Go’s, The Bangles, Bananarama, and The Pointer Sisters, but only one of those groups had a hit that encouraged us to “Walk Like an ...

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Billy Steinberg, who co-wrote five US Number 1 singles, including Heart's 1987 hit Alone, and The Bangles' 1989 smash Eternal Flame, has died, aged 75. Together with his writing partner Tom Kelly, ...

When Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill married in 2003, you might be forgiven for thinking that a song, an album or a show might follow. After all, Peterson cofounded the Bangles in 1981 with her sister ...

1986 was the big breakthrough year for L.A.-based pop-rock band The Bangles. After touring heavily in support of their 1984 Columbia Records debut All Over the Place, the all-female quartet needed to ...