The Bangles: A Brief Look at The Popular ’80s Band
The Bangles was an American pop rock all-girls band that formed in December 1980, in Los Angeles, California. The Bangles had achieved a great deal of popularity during their career, with a great deal of hits, including ‘Manic Monday’, ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’, and ‘Eternal Flame’. They disbanded in 1989, though they reconnected in later years to record other albums, and to go on tour.
Susannah Hoffs, one of the co-founders of the Bangles, was born in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of film director Tamar Ruth, and psychoanalyst Joshua Allen Hoffs. Hoffs had always had an interest in music from a young age. Her mother got her into the Beatles when she’d been a child, and Hoffs had begun taking guitar lessons when she was in her teens.
Hoffs had graduated high school in 1976, and had taken an interest in the film industry — working as a production assistant on the 1978 film, ‘Stony Island’. By 1980, Hoffs had graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in art. She had been a big fan of classic rock bands, and had recently taken up an interest in punk rock.
Hoffs had been interested in punk bands such as the ‘Ramones’. In 1980, she had posted an ad in ‘The Recycler’, a weekly Los Angeles paper. She only got a single response, from a woman named Annette Zilinskas. It had been rather…
