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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts Interview: The Bangles |
 | | The Bangles' third album, 1988's Everything, was the sound of a band fragmenting: slick, bombastic moments like Eternal Flame, co-written by Hoffs with hired songwriters, belonged on a different record to the harder rock numbers offered by Steele and the Petersons. |
 | | The Bangles are all in their early 40s now; it's over 20 years since Hoffs answered the Peterson sisters' newspaper ad. |
 | | During the next half-hour he plays a Saw Doctors song featuring the line, "I'd love to bang the Bangles", presents them with some genital jewellery, and gets a squirming Hoffs to explain why she recorded the lead vocal for Eternal Flame in the nude. |
| arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,913274,00.html (1687 words) |
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