New book 'Eternal Flame' recounts 80s pop sensations The Bangles’ turbulent run


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Bickerdike’s new book on The Bangles offers fresh insight into the underappreciated band through first-person accounts, photos, and diary entries. - AP

For members of The Bangles, the quintessential all-female band of the 1980s, Walk Like An Egyptian was an aberration — not just a departure from their rock-influenced roots, but running counter to it.

How the quirky single would help propel them to international fame and earn Susanna Hoffs’ flirtily darting eyes a place in music history is laid out in a new book, Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography Of The Bangles, released recently.

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