Vicki Peterson remembers the night Prince crashed a Bangles gig, the secret 'Manic Monday' demo he sent, and how it rewired their 1980s pop-rock destiny.

A member of a beloved rock band recently revealed a music superstar unexpectedly gave the band one of its biggest songs. But the connection went beyond that. “He would come to our shows and sit in,” ...

If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful ...

There was a time, back in the ‘80s, that Prince was writing so many good songs that he could afford to give away surefire hits to other artists. Arguably the most famous of these was Manic Monday, a ...

In 1986, The Bangles released a song that spent four weeks at No. 1, and was the beginning of the end for the group.