What happened to The Bangles after it was released?ĭespite the success of 'Eternal Flame', The Bangles wouldn't last much longer. It was only their second No.1 hit single alongside 'Walk Like An Egyptian' in 1986. The song stayed at the top spot in the UK charts for three weeks, and having reached No.1 on the Billboard chart it made The Bangles the third all-female group to top the Hot 100 multiple times, after The Shirelles and The Supremes. 'Eternal Flame' achieved enormous commercial and critical success, hitting the No.1 spot in a total of nine countries. (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images). The Bangles performing on sketch show Saturday Night Live in 1988. Hoffs embraced the experience fully, going so far as to record the entire album, 1988's Everything, in the buff. 'I imagined it would feel like skinny dipping-vulnerable yet freeing – and I decided to try it.'

Revealed on the 2021 television programme I'm In A Girl Group, Susanna Hoffs remembered singing the studio recording of 'Eternal Flame' completely naked after her producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her saying that Olivia Newton-John would record her vocals similarly unclad.

'I imagined it would feel like skinny dipping'. 'That led to Billy saying, 'Oh, eternal flame is a good title for a song.' Is it true Susanna Hoffs recorded the song in the nude? 'The day we were there we were taken out to the Garden of Memories, and there was this little box which was supposed to have a lit flame in it, an eternal flame.' Having been invited to Graceland on an official private tour, Susanna Hoffs recalls the moment the song title came to her: The song's lyrics are actually inspired by Elvis Presley, and the eternal flame at his gravesite in Memphis. The Bangles had been together since 1981.

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