Bangles For Sale
Iman Lababedi, Creem, June 1985
AT THE CBS building in Manhattan guitarist Susanna Hoffs (all black tights and mini-skirt) explains the Bangles' modus operandi:"It's hard to work keeping your sense of humor. Like when you have to get up to do a TV show and you've driven for 12 hours with a cold and snot on your face and there's no water so you can't wash..."
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