Inactive in the studio for more than eight years, the three original members of the all-female 1980s pop band The Bangles are planning to launch a new album on September 13, reports Gibson.
Known for hits like Walk Like an Egyptian, Manic Monday (written by Prince) and Eternal Flame, the group broke up in 1989. The band reformed ten years later in 1999 to compose Get the Girl, a song for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, a film directed by Jay Roach, husband of singer Susanna Hoffs since 1993, with whom she has two children.
Then they began to play together again leading up to their return on to the studio in 2003 for Doll Revolution – their first album in 18 years.
Vocalist-guitarists Vicki Peterson and Susanna Hoffs and drummer Debbi Peterson talk about themes around Sweetheart of the Sun.
“As we were finishing the record,” said Vicki, “we started to realize there was a unifying theme—paradise lost in Southern California, the perception juxtaposed with the reality of it.” Susanna picks up the thought: “L.A. is like paradise—the sun shines 360 days a year, the flowers are always in bloom—but meanwhile, so many people are walking around alienated, depressed and anxious.”