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Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 07.22 EDT Susanna Hoffs, singer, guitarist, co-writer In 1988, it felt like the Bangles had been touring endlessly. Our second album, Different Light, with the singles Manic Monday and Walk Like an Egyptian, had been released two years earlier. Now, finally, we could take a break from living on buses together. I began collaborating with the songwriting team Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, who wrote Like a Virgin and True Colors. Writing, for me, had always meant picking up a guitar and crafting a melody; the lyrics would emerge after I felt the emotion of the so...

Classic Tracks: The Bangles ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ Producer: David Kahne The Bangles. Left to right: Vicki Peterson, Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Michael Steele.Photo: Lester Cohen ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ was a huge hit for the Bangles, but it all started with a demo mix‑up and some very unusual percussion. One of the biggest hits of the ’80s (and a staple of rock radio ever since), the Bangles’ ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ was instantly everywhere upon its initial release in 1986, topping the US singles charts and reaching number three in the UK. But behind its drivi...

Movie In the Ric Roman Waugh-directed disaster movie, the 'Olympus Has Fallen' star plays John Garrity whose family is fighting for their survival as Earth faces destruction from an approaching comet. Feb 6, 2021 AceShowbiz - Gerard Butler is confident the coronavirus pandemic will give viewers a "deeper understanding" of his new movie " The 51-year-old actor plays John Garrity in the disaster flick which tells the story of a family fighting for survival as Earth faces destruction from an approaching comet and thinks that audiences will see the movie in a different light amid the global hea...

It’s the season of giving, but that’s not why poet, writer, and artist Beverly Finney of Hickory has been stealthily distributing free poems. The Catawba County native’s been doing it “to encourage each other to remember our shared humanity,” she explained. 2020 has been — and continues to be — a tough one. Beverly’s hopeful her inspiring poems will help women and men “recognize the human experience,” as Beverly called the basis of all her writing. “We all have fears, hopes, dreams, angers, mistakes, and our successes,” she poi...