Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The perfect cure to your manic moment might just be listening to “Manic Monday.” So many of the Bangles songs are just what you ...

When we think about how The Bangles broke through to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, we likely think about “Manic Monday.” It was their first Billboard Hot 100 hit in the U.S., and it ...

A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles. “The momentum started to gather like a snowball going down the hillside. We started to get bigger and bigger ...

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story. By Bob Mehr Reporting from Los Angeles The first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Simon & Garfunkel’s version has endured as a folk classic, it was iconic '80s rockers The Bangles who reimagined "Hazy Shade ...

The Bangles made such an impact on the 80s music scene that it’s hard to believe they only released three albums in that decade. It might be even harder to grasp that their recorded output stayed ...

Originals, the latest posthumous release from The Prince Estate, compiles 15 previously unheard songs Prince wrote and demoed for other artists. Among the familiar titles penned by Prince are Sheila E ...

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 ...

'80s rock icon Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still dancing nonstop. Hoffs led the Bangles, her all-girl band, to music superstardom thanks to songs like “Walk Like an Egyptian” and “Manic Monday.” Still an ...

In 1966, folk duo Simon & Garfunkel — made up of musicians Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel — released the song "A Hazy Shade of Winter" as a stand-alone single, where it peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard ...