In one giant leap, The Bangles transformed from a critically acclaimed but little-known group to one of the biggest bands on the planet. It took place on the album Different Light, which took the ...

And when our last album, `Different Light,` went multi-platinum, naturally they all said we`d never be able to repeat it.” Of course, The Bangles, who will appear Thursday at the Holiday Star ...

Recording of 1986’s Different Light was therefore a tortured affair ... Everything, released in 1988, would prove to be the final Bangles’ album released at their commercial peak, and was ...

The album, ”Different Light,” cracked the Top 20. The Bangles` video for ”Manic Monday” is in heavy rotation on MTV, and the band has been getting bountiful media exposure, including a ...

And how did The Bangles change ... pop-music elite. Different Light started spraying out hits left and right, with the quasi-novelty song “Walk Like an Egyptian,” the album’s third single ...

For the Bangles, "Manic Monday" was a career breakthrough ... Later, when the band members were recording their second studio album, Different Light, Prince sent word that he had written a song ...

40 years after their first album, the Bangles members remain some of the most talented women in music. Their songs have serious staying power (who among us hasn't related to "Manic Monday," danced ...

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.

Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.