The Bangles: Here Right Now
Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 3 November 2005
With the format only just beginning to be embraced in the mid-1980s, it seems music video programs were made for bands like The Bangles. Far from being an overnight gimmick, the four pretty Californian girls who played their own instruments and lit up the screen with clips for hits 'Manic Monday', 'Walk Like An Egyptian' and 'Eternal Flame' started out as psychedelic band The Bangs in 1981, finally cracking the global market in 1986 when Prince penned 'Manic Monday' for the group.
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