Susanna Hoffs
{{Short description|American musician (born 1959)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Susanna Hoffs
| image = Hoffs-2006.jpg
| caption = Hoffs in 2006
| alt = A woman playing a black and white electric guitar.
| birth_name = Susanna Lee Hoffs
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|1|17}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, US
| education = University of California, Berkeley (BA)
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|musician|songwriter|actress|author}}
| mother = Tamar Simon Hoffs
| years_active = 1978–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Jay Roach|1993}}
| children = 2
| website = {{URL|susannahoffs.com}}
| module = {{Infobox musical artist | embed = yes
| instrument = {{hlist| Vocals | guitar }}
| past_member_of = {{hlist|The Bangles | Ming Tea}}
| genre = {{hlist|Rock | pop }}
}}
}}
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress. With Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson, she founded the Bangles in 1981. Their debut album, All Over the Place (1984), was acclaimed by critics but sold poorly. Their second album, Different Light (1986), was also warmly received by critics and was certified double-platinum in 1987 and triple-platinum in 1994. It contained the US number two single "Manic Monday" written by Prince and the number one single "Walk Like an Egyptian." The group's third album, Everything (1988), included the US top ten charting "In Your Room" and number one "Eternal Flame," both written by Hoffs with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. Hoffs was lead vocalist on five of the seven singles released by the Bangles resulting in her being seen as the face of the group even though all four members shared lead vocal duties. Following tensions including resentment at Hoffs' perceived leadership and the stress of touring, the band split in 1989. It reformed in 1999 and released the albums Doll Revolution (2003) and Sweetheart of the Sun (2011).
Hoffs' first solo album, When You're a Boy (1991), was followed by Susanna Hoffs (1996). Neither of the releases proved to be as popular as the Bangles' albums, although they yielded two charting singles in the US, the top 40 hit "My Side of the Bed", and "All I Want". She recorded several songs for films and formed the faux-British 1960s band Ming Tea with Mike Myers and Matthew Sweet. Hoffs teamed with Sweet to produce Under the Covers, a series of cover song albums. Her 2012 album Someday was followed by two more cover albums Bright Lights (2021) and The Deep End (2023).
Hoffs' first novel, This Bird Has Flown, a romantic comedy about a struggling musician, was published by Little Brown in 2023. It received favorable reviews, and Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the novel for a screen adaptation.
Early life
Susanna Lee Hoffs was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1959.{{sfn|George-Warren|Romanowski|2005|p=47}}{{cite web|title=Susanna Hoffs walks like a rockstar/mom |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16541 |work=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |year=2006 |first=Tom |last=Teicholz |access-date=August 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018205847/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16541 |archive-date=October 18, 2006 }}{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=https://www.susannahoffs.com/bio |access-date=August 16, 2023 |website=Susanna Hoffs |language=en-US |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031122946/https://www.susannahoffs.com/bio |url-status=live }}{{efn-ua|Colin Larkin's The Encyclopedia of Popular Music has Newport Beach as Hoffs' birthplace.{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=314}} Some sources give different years for her birth date, including 1957,{{sfn|Strong|2000|p=622}} 1959,{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=314}} and 1962.{{sfn|Larkin|1995|p=31}}}} She is the daughter of film director/writer/producer Tamar Ruth (née Simon) and Joshua Allen Hoffs, a psychoanalyst. Her family is Jewish.{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B1EFA3454177B93CAAB1789D85F438585F9|work=The New York Times|title=Tamar Simon Engaged; She Is Fiancee of Joshua A. Hoffs, A Medical Student|date=February 28, 1957|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-date=July 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222523/https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/28/archives/tamar-simon-engaged-she-is-fiancee-of-joshua-a-hoffs-a-medical.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Bangle still follows mom's directions|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DVpWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5567,8925264&dq=susanna+hoffs+father+doctor&hl=en|access-date=June 30, 2014|work=The Spokesman-Review|location=Spokane, Washington|date=May 15, 1987|archive-date=January 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127105854/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DVpWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5567%2C8925264&dq=susanna+hoffs+father+doctor&hl=en|url-status=live}} She has two brothers, John and Jesse.{{cite magazine |last=Orlean |first=Susan |title=The Bangles: California Girls |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-bangles-california-girls-201071/2/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 26, 1987 |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614062141/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-bangles-california-girls-201071/2/ |url-status=live }} She has said that her home environment "wasn't really traditional" and that it was an "atheist, intellectual, creative world". She said that while her mother was religious and kept kosher, her father was secular.{{cite news |title=The batmitzvah girl who walked like an Egyptian |url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/music/the-batmitzvah-girl-who-walked-like-an-egyptian-kf7h7img |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=May 7, 2024}} Her maternal grandfather, Ralph Simon, was a rabbi in Chicago and her maternal uncle, Matthew Simon, was rabbi emeritus for the B'nai Israel Congregation of Maryland and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.{{cite news |title=B'nai Israel Emeritus Rabbi Matthew Simon Dies at 91 |url=https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/bnai-israel-emeritus-rabbi-matthew-simon-dies-at-91/ |work=Washington Jewish Week |date=September 13, 2023 }}{{cite news |title=Rabbi Ralph Simon, 89, headed Hyde Park congregation 44 years |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/04/02/rabbi-ralph-simon-89-headed-hyde-park-congregation-44-years/ |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=April 2, 1996}}{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times Book Review|date=April 9, 2023|page=7|title=Susanna Hoffs Has a Dollar Bill Signed by William S. Burroughs|url-access=subscription|access-date=April 10, 2023|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/books/review/susanna-hoffs-by-the-book-interview.html|archive-date=April 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410050232/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/books/review/susanna-hoffs-by-the-book-interview.html|url-status=live}} Hoffs visited Israel for the first time at the age of 12 to see her grandparents, and she celebrated her bat mitzvah at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Gordon|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/bangles-singer-susanna-hoffs-newest-cover-is-her-debut-novel-this-bird-has-flown/|title= Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs' newest cover is her debut novel, 'This Bird Has Flown'|website= The Times of Israel|date=April 16, 2023 |archive-date= May 23, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230523001317/https://www.timesofisrael.com/bangles-singer-susanna-hoffs-newest-cover-is-her-debut-novel-this-bird-has-flown/|url-status= live}}
Hoffs took ballet classes as a child, and started playing guitar in elementary school, learning chords from her uncle. She attended Palisades High School,{{cite news |last=Hilburn |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Hilburn |title=Mazzy Star: Shining Brightly |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-mazzy-star-shinin/149020991/ |via=Newspapers.com |date=July 22, 1990 |page=C64}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-06/david-roback-mazzy-star-susanna-hoffs-opal-cancer?_gl=1*opdnl*_gcl_au*MTUzNzgyNjMxNS4xNjkyNTU5NjE3|title=Susanna Hoffs and friends remember David Roback, who stayed creative, and enigmatic, to the end |first=Randall |last=Roberts|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 6, 2020|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911165011/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-06/david-roback-mazzy-star-susanna-hoffs-opal-cancer?_gl=1%2Aopdnl%2A_gcl_au%2AMTUzNzgyNjMxNS4xNjkyNTU5NjE3|url-status=live}} and received a bachelor's degree in art in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she switched majors between dance, theater, film, and art. While in college, she worked as a production assistant and made her acting debut as part of a cast that included Richie Davis, Rae Dawn Chong, and Dennis Franz, in the 1978 film Stony Island directed by Andrew Davis and co-written by her mother.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stony-island|title=Reviews – Stony Island|publisher=Roger Ebert|date=November 24, 1978|access-date=August 22, 2023|archive-date=August 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831144853/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stony-island|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Stony Island Movie|url=http://stonyislandmovie.com/featured_cast.html |website=Official website for Stony Island movie |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116163728/http://stonyislandmovie.com/featured_cast.html|archive-date=November 16, 2012}}{{cite web |last=Bey |first=Lee |date=April 4, 2012 |title=Revisiting 'Stony Island': Soulful 1970s Chicago cult film hits the streets again |url=http://www.wbez.org/blogs/lee-bey/2012-04/revisiting-stony-island-soulful-1970s-chicago-cult-film-hits-streets-again |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605051300/http://www.wbez.org/blogs/lee-bey/2012-04/revisiting-stony-island-soulful-1970s-chicago-cult-film-hits-streets-again |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |access-date=May 3, 2013 |website=WBEZ91.5}} With college friends, she attended the final Sex Pistols show at Winterland Ballroom,{{Cite magazine|url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2009/07/20/qa-with-susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet/|title=Q&A With Susanna Hoffs And Matthew Sweet|date=July 20, 2009|access-date=August 29, 2021|archive-date=August 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829172011/https://magnetmagazine.com/2009/07/20/qa-with-susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet/ |magazine=Magnet |url-status=live}} and a Patti Smith concert that inspired her to pursue a career in music.{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/sweetheart-of-the-sun-mod_b_980517.html |title=Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art: Chatting With The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet |work=HuffPost |first=Mike |last=Ragogna |date=September 26, 2011 |access-date=October 9, 2011 |archive-date=June 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623131502/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/sweetheart-of-the-sun-mod_b_980517.html |url-status=live }}
In the late 1970s, while a student at UC Berkeley, Hoffs and her then-boyfriend David Roback formed the Psychiatrists, later changing their name to the Unconscious.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=7}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/nine-songs-susanna-hoffs|title=Nine Songs – Susanna Hoffs |first=Ed |last=Nash|publisher=The Line of Best Fit|date=June 23, 2023|access-date=September 7, 2023|archive-date=September 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907212124/https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/nine-songs-susanna-hoffs|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |first=Randall |last=Roberts |date=March 6, 2020 |title=Susanna Hoffs and friends remember David Roback, who stayed creative, and enigmatic, to the end |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-06/david-roback-mazzy-star-susanna-hoffs-opal-cancer |access-date=November 21, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=November 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121205340/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-06/david-roback-mazzy-star-susanna-hoffs-opal-cancer |url-status=live }} In one account, Hoffs said that the short-lived group would perform for 50 minutes, to reflect the duration of "psychiatrists' hours", but in a 2012 interview she said that this early group never performed in public.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=7}}{{cite web|url=https://glidemagazine.com/21852/susanna-hoffs/|title=Susanna Hoffs Sparkles on 'Someday' (Interview) |first=Leslie Michele |last=Derrough|work=Glide Magazine|date=October 8, 2012|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825225729/https://glidemagazine.com/21852/susanna-hoffs/|url-status=live}}
The Bangles
{{Main|The Bangles}}
=The Bangs: first releases and name change=
File:The Bangles, 1984 (cropped).jpg, Vicki Peterson, Susanna Hoffs and Michael Steele.]]
There are different accounts of how Hoffs met the other members of the Bangles. She either posted an ad in a local newspaper and left flyers at the Whisky a Go Go at a Go-Go's concert in search of potential bandmates, or answered an ad asking for musicians to join a group.Sourced to:
- {{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/openbook/article/91063-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-shows-it-s-never-too-late.html|title=Susanna Hoffs's Debut Novel Proves It's Never Too Late |first=Louisa |last=Ermelino|work=Publishers Weekly|date=December 22, 2022|access-date=August 25, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911165055/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/openbook/article/91063-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-shows-it-s-never-too-late.html|url-status=live|ref=none}}
- {{cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/540633/susanna-hoffs-this-bird-has-flown-jewish-writer-bangles-novel/|title=How Jane Eyre and Marvin Gaye helped to inspire a pop star's debut novel |first=Dan |last=Epstein|website=Forward|date=March 21, 2023|access-date=August 25, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911165037/https://forward.com/culture/540633/susanna-hoffs-this-bird-has-flown-jewish-writer-bangles-novel/|url-status=live|ref=none}}
- {{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/spin-42-december-1988/page/120/mode/2up|title= LA Women |first=Michael |last=Corcoran |page=120|magazine=Spin |date= December 1988|access-date=August 25, 2023|ref=none}}{{sfn|Gaar|2002|p=272}}{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} In the second scenario, the woman who advertised had previously been in a group with sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson and shared a house with them. Hoffs elected to form a group with the Petersons rather than with the original advertiser, and they started the band in Hoffs' parents' garage in Brentwood, which had been refurbished as an apartment for Hoffs.{{sfn|Gaar|2002|p=272}}{{cite news |last=Wiedenhoeft |first=John |title=Talk like a Bangle |newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal |date=August 19, 2007 |page=G1}}
The band was originally called the Colours, but changed it to the Supersonic Bangs after Hoffs saw an article about 1960s hairstyles in an old copy of Esquire, and subsequently to the Bangs.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=7}}{{cite magazine |last1=Hogan |first1=Peter |last2=Bahiana |first2=Ana Maria |title=The Bangle goes on |magazine=Vox |date=April 1991 |pages=22–23 }} Hoffs said that the group "liked the double-entendre of the name" and that "you can read a lot into it. There was something kind of gutsy about it."{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=7}} Annette Zilinskas joined as the bass player alongside Hoffs on rhythm guitar, Vicki Peterson on lead guitar, and Debbie Peterson on drums.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=7}}{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Craig |title=Bangs ignites rock music audience |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-bangs-ingnites-roc/125885697/ |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 8, 1982 |page=7 |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614062141/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-bangs-ingnites-roc/125885697/ |url-status=live }} The group's influences included the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Hollies.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} Hoffs and the Petersons shared lead vocals. She said that the band's first "real performance" was at Laird International Studios, where Vicki worked as a secretary. They played other venues in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, and recorded "Getting Out of Hand" released on their own label Downkiddie in 1981, pressing 1,000 copies.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}}{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=10}} In a 1987 Rolling Stone article, the critic Susan Orlean described the band's early audience as "mostly boys, who appreciated their tough-enough music and playfully flirtatious stage presence". Author James Dickerson later characterized the group's loyal audience as "made up of horny high-school and college-age males who relished their in-your-face sexuality", and commented that the musicians had gained their success through their own efforts, without intervention from any man.{{sfn|Dickerson|2005|p=98|loc="In short, the Bangs rode high without any males telling them what to do."}}
Miles Copeland of I.R.S. Records saw the Bangs at a show and signed them to his Faulty Products label. He had previously signed the Go-Go's, likewise an all-female band, whose albums had been commercially successful.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|pp=10–11}} In 1982, following a legal claim by another group called the Bangs, Hoffs and her bandmates changed their name again to the Bangles.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|pp=10-11}} Meanwhile, Faulty Products folded, and the band's self-titled EP was eventually released on I.R.S. Records in 1982.{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=11}} In 1983, the group was signed to Columbia Records, and Zilinskas left and was replaced by Michael Steele.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}}{{sfn|Hogan|1989|p=15}} Hoffs played a role in the short comedy film, The Haircut (1982), starring John Cassavetes.{{cite web|url=https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/the-haircut-a-student-film-starring-the-great-john-cassavetes.html|title=The Haircut: A Student Film Starring the Great John Cassavetes (1982)|date=October 21, 2013|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017025405/https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/the-haircut-a-student-film-starring-the-great-john-cassavetes.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://entertainment.ie/movies/where-to-watch/the-haircut-286573/|title=The Haircut|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012212615/https://entertainment.ie/movies/where-to-watch/the-haircut-286573/|url-status=live}}
=Critical and commercial success=
The Bangles released their first full album, All Over the Place, in 1984 on Columbia Records; it was acclaimed by critics but sold poorly.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}}{{sfn|Wiloch|1989|p=50}}{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|1998|p=194}} Their breakthrough was the 1986 single "Manic Monday", written by Prince, which reached number two on the charts in the US, the UK, West Germany and Austria,{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} as well as reaching number one in South Africa and the top five in Sweden, Switzerland and Norway. This single was included on the album Different Light (1986), which was warmly received by critics and was certified double-platinum in 1987,{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}}{{sfn|Wiloch|1989|p=50}} then triple-platinum in 1994.{{cite certification|region=United States|artist=bangles|access-date=September 23, 2020}} "Walk Like an Egyptian" from the same album reached number one in the US in December 1986,{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} and was their first American gold record single. It also became number one in the charts for Australia,{{cite book|first= David |last= Kent |author-link= David Kent (historian) |year= 1993 |title= Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |publisher= Australian Chart Book |location= St Ives, N.S.W. |page= 26 |isbn= 978-0-646-11917-5}} Canada,{{cite magazine |title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 0766 |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f4/nlc008388.0766.gif |date=January 24, 1987 |magazine=RPM |via=Library and Archives Canada }} the Netherlands,{{cite web |title=Top 40-lijst van week 49, 1986 |website=Dutch Top 40 |url=https://www.top40.nl/top40/1986/week-49 |access-date=July 31, 2024}} South Africa, Spain,{{cite book|first= Fernando |last= Salaverri |date= September 2005 |title= Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 |edition= 1st |publisher= Fundación Autor-SGAE |location= Spain |isbn= 978-84-8048-639-2 |language= es}} and West Germany.{{cite web |website=Offizielle Deutsche Charts |title=Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/titel-details-1549 |access-date=July 31, 2024}} Dickerson wrote that "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like an Egyptian" were more appealing to women and girls than the band's previous records had been.{{sfn|Dickerson|2005|p=100}} Hoffs first met Prince in 1984 and the pair spoke regularly. He attended some of the group's concerts and occasionally appeared on stage with them. Paul Evans and Ernesto Lechner of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) wrote that Hoffs had "mastered a singing style that combined pep, coy sweetness, and an occasional plaintive resonance".{{sfn|Evans|Lechner|2004|p=43}}
In the music video for "Walk Like an Egyptian", during a close-up of Hoffs' face, she moves her eyes from side to side.{{cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |title=The Number Ones: The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2113868/the-number-ones-the-bangles-walk-like-an-egyptian/columns/the-number-ones/ |website=Stereogum |date=January 25, 2021 |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028035524/https://www.stereogum.com/2113868/the-number-ones-the-bangles-walk-like-an-egyptian/columns/the-number-ones/ |url-status=live }}{{cite AV media |title=The Bangles – Walk Like an Egyptian (Official Video) |type=video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk |access-date= |year=2013 |time=2:47 |publisher=The Bangles |via=YouTube |archive-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609120652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk |url-status=live }} Hoffs recounted that she had been looking at selected members of the crowd to counter stage fright, and had not realized it would be a focal point in the video.{{sfn|Tannenbaum|2012|p=270}} Tom Breihan of Stereogum wrote of the scene: "But it's so {{em|cool}}. It makes her look like she's up to some mischief." The television director Marty Callner later said: "I saw situations where one shot would make a star, like with Susanna Hoffs and 'Walk Like an Egyptian.' That thing she did with her eyes."{{sfn|Tannenbaum|2012|p=270}} In 2011, she said: "I guess it's become an iconic moment in that video, and I didn't even realize it was happening."{{cite web |first=Eric |last=Spitznagel |date=September 26, 2011 |title=The Bangles Never Made a Sex Tape |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/r26q7s/susanna-hoffs-interview |publisher=MTV |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222533/https://www.mtv.com/news/r26q7s/susanna-hoffs-interview |url-status=dead }}
A 1986 London performance by the Bangles was reviewed by David Sinclair of The Times, who felt that the band "proved unconvincing in performance", although Hoffs "was by and large the best at creating a mood of emotional involvement. Her clear, fragile voice and coquettish enunciation were reminiscent of Stevie Nicks."{{cite news |last=Sinclair |first=David |title=Rock: The Bangles: University of London Union |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=February 10, 1986 |page=7}} In the same paper a few months later, Richard Williams also compared Hoffs to Nicks, writing that Hoffs' "dark eyes, dangerous pout and fancifully sexy costumes [that] match her sultry voice" were reminiscent of the Fleetwood Mac singer. He concluded that Hoffs was "an equally obvious candidate for a successful solo career".{{cite news |last=Sinclair |first=David |title=Rock: Snappy girls dressed to kill |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=July 5, 1986 |page=8}}
The Bangles had another US number two single with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "A Hazy Shade of Winter" released in late 1987 and reaching its peak position in February 1988.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} Following a successful tour, the group issued their third and final Columbia album Everything in 1988.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}} The first single, "In Your Room", co-written by Hoffs with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, became a US top ten hit.{{cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |title=The Number Ones: The Bangles' "Eternal Flame" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2152102/the-number-ones-the-bangles-eternal-flame/columns/the-number-ones/ |website=Stereogum |date=July 2, 2021 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408190950/https://www.stereogum.com/2152102/the-number-ones-the-bangles-eternal-flame/columns/the-number-ones/ |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Whitburn|2013|p=59}} The same album included their second US number one, and second American gold record single, "Eternal Flame", which was also co-written by Hoffs, Steinberg and Kelly.{{sfn|Whitburn|2013|p=59}} The single also topped the chart in eight other countries. Hoffs sang the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked due to producer Davitt Sigerson pranking her by telling her Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing. He later told Hoffs he had just been pulling her leg.{{Cite web|date=August 1, 2012|title=Susanna Hoffs Bares All (?) in New Interview|url=https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/susanna-hoffs-bares-all-in-new-interview/|access-date=February 10, 2020|website=RockCellarMagazine|language=en-US|quote=RCM: Bangles history has it that you recorded the song "Eternal Flame" in the nude. How did that happen? SH: [Davitt Sigerson] played this kind of practical joke on me – he knew I was very gullible – and he mentioned that he had just finished working on Olivia Newton-John's record and said, "Oh, and she sings everything in the nude. And she just did her best performances ever that way." And I said, "Really? I had no idea!" He told me well after the sessions were over that he was just pulling my leg but that's what launched into this whole conversation where I said, "That sounds like so much fun!" 'Cause I had already had this superstitious thing about wearing the same outfit every time I recorded vocals – sort of my lucky shirt and pants. But this idea transformed me into thinking, "Well, gosh, maybe I'll get my best performances if I'm singing in the nude!"|archive-date=December 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202125823/https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/susanna-hoffs-bares-all-in-new-interview/|url-status=live}} As the studio was dark, and Hoffs was standing behind a sound baffle, she could not be seen.{{cite news |first=Amy |last=Fleming |title='I did the vocals in the nude' – the Bangles on how they made Eternal Flame |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made |newspaper=The Guardian |date=May 3, 2021 |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528031833/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made |url-status=live }}
File:The Bangles 01 23 2015 -11 (16514110786).jpg in 2015. The group was presented with an Icon Award at the show, 30 years after their debut album.{{cite news |first=Evelyn |last=McDonnell |title=Women take the spotlight at NAMM's She Rock Awards |date=January 24, 2015 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-namm-she-rocks-awards-20150124-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523081650/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-namm-she-rocks-awards-20150124-story.html |url-status=live }}]]
Hoffs was lead vocalist on five of the seven Columbia singles by the Bangles,{{sfn|Zeck|1995|pages=353–354}} leading to a public perception that she was the primary singer and face of the group, even though all four members shared lead vocals, and Steele and Peterson did most of the talking between songs in concert.{{sfn|Zeck|1995|pages=353–354}} As she was shorter in height than the other band members, photographs tended to feature her at front.{{cite magazine |last=Orlean |first=Susan |title=The Bangles: California Girls |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-bangles-california-girls-201071/4/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 26, 1987 |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614062141/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-bangles-california-girls-201071/4/ |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Zeck|1995|p=354}} She was the lead actress in The Allnighter (1987) and gained Prince's attention.{{sfn|Zeck|1995|p=354}} Orlean wrote that the cumulative effect was to "vault Susanna into beyond-Bangles celebrity status".
=Disbandment and aftermath=
In 1989, while still popular, the Bangles disbanded to undertake individual projects.{{sfn|Warner|2006|p=521}}{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/no-more-manic-mondays-20050905-gdm07a.html|title=No more manic Mondays|date=September 5, 2005|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=May 28, 2019|archive-date=May 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528193936/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/no-more-manic-mondays-20050905-gdm07a.html|url-status=live}} There had been tensions and disquiet in the group since Different Light; they saw themselves as musical creators, but their biggest successes had been versions of songs written by others. The public perception of Hoffs as bandleader took a toll on group harmony.{{sfn|Gaar|2002|p=272}}{{sfn|Bordowitz|2001|p=203}} In an interview for a 2002 book, Hoffs pinpointed the stress of touring as the breaking point.{{sfn|Miller|Miller|2002|p=39}} In her account, she recalled that the band members were tired and reluctant to tour, but agreed to do so at the behest of their management and record company, and in response to demand from their fans.{{sfn|Miller|Miller|2002|p=39}} According to the book's authors Lee Miller and Jessica Miller, "The situation deteriorated so badly that they canceled the tour abruptly and the band split up. Susanna always blamed the stress of that final tour for the breakup".{{sfn|Miller|Miller|2002|p=39}}
Hoffs contacted the other members of the Bangles in the late 1990s with the hope of reuniting. In 2008, she told Andrew Murfett of The Age: "I wanted to do new Bangles music. I was driving the other girls crazy calling them. I didn't want to be a 'greatest hits' band. I wanted to write and sing new songs. That was really important to Vicki and Debbie, too. We didn't want to go on a 'Ladies of the 1980s' tour." The reunited Bangles played at a Beatles tribute concert conducted by George Martin,{{sfn|Bordowitz|2001|p=203}} and recorded the single "Get the Girl" for the second Austin Powers film in 1999.{{cite web |title=Bangles Reunite For Beatles Gig, Offers Up "Austin Powers" Song |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/1hz44o/bangles-reunite-for-beatles-gig-offers-up-austin-powers-song |publisher=MTV |date=June 2, 1999 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222605/https://www.mtv.com/news/1hz44o/bangles-reunite-for-beatles-gig-offers-up-austin-powers-song |url-status=dead }} In 2000 they announced their decision to reunite full-time.{{cite web |title='Flame' Rekindles for Bangles |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=116398&page=1 |website=ABC News |date=July 19, 2000 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=January 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130194131/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=116398&page=1 |url-status=live }} Hoffs recounted that following the experiences that led to the group disbanding in 1989, the band members agreed that each would have a veto on the group's proposed activities.{{sfn|Miller|Miller|2002|p=39}} Their fourth album, Doll Revolution, was released in 2003; it received positive reviews, and sold moderately well.{{cite news |title=Just another manic comeback: Music – The Bangles |last=Murfett |first=Andrew |newspaper=The Age |date=October 8, 2008 |page=24}} The group embarked on a tour following its release. Their fifth album, Sweetheart of the Sun, was released in 2011; it received an average score of 69 on review aggregator site Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews".{{cite web |title=Sweetheart of the Sun |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/sweetheart-of-the-sun/bangles/critic-reviews |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306063659/http://www.metacritic.com/music/sweetheart-of-the-sun/bangles/critic-reviews |url-status=live }}
Evans and Lechner felt that the band "achieved gigantically the dubious triumph of sound over significance", and of the "inevitable reunion" that "even nostalgia has its limits".{{sfn|Evans|Lechner|2004|p=43}} Robert Christgau rated all of the albums from their first incarnation B− or above and gave Doll Revolution three stars.{{cite web |first=Robert |last=Christgau |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=The Bangles |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=bangles |website=Robert Christgau's website |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222525/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=bangles |url-status=live }}
Solo career
Hoffs contributed lead vocals to covers of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It with Mine" and Lou Reed's "I'll Be Your Mirror" on Rainy Day's 1984 self-titled album. Led by the musician David Roback of Unconscious and later Mazzy Star, the project also included Vicki Peterson and members of other Paisley Underground bands including Dream Syndicate, the Three O'Clock, and Rain Parade.{{sfn|Strong|2000|p=622}} "I'll Keep It with Mine" was issued as the A-side of Rainy Day's only single.{{sfn|Strong|2000|p=622}}{{cite news |last=Bohen |first=Jin |title=Short Cuts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-rainy-day-review/125888558/ |newspaper=Daily Record |location=Morristown |date=May 13, 1984 |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614062141/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-rainy-day-review/125888558/ |url-status=live }}
In 1987, Hoffs starred in the comedy The Allnighter, directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs, which also featured Joan Cusack and Pam Grier. Glenn Kenny wrote in Video Review that Hoffs' character was "full of spunk" like her Bangles persona, but less "savvy", concluding that the film was "unextraordinary and inoffensive".{{cite magazine |first=Glenn |last=Kenny |author-link=Glenn Kenny |title=The Allnighter |magazine=Video Review |date=December 1987|volume=8 |issue=9 |page=98}} While he felt that Hoff's acting abilities were on a par with her more seasoned colleagues in the cast, Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times argued that "It's her character we have trouble with", and disparaged the film.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-04-ca-4748-story.html|title=Movie Review: 'Allnighter' a fine place to snooze |first=Patrick |last=Goldstein |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 4, 1987|access-date=August 20, 2023|archive-date=August 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823223756/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-04-ca-4748-story.html|url-status=live}} The New York Times critic Janet Maslin panned the work as "outstandingly dim".{{cite news|title=Film: Susanna Hoffs Stars In 'Allnighter' by Her Mother |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 4, 1987 |page=C16}} The film was also dismissed by Richard Harrington in The Washington Post, who wrote that she appeared "stiff [and] self-conscious".{{cite news |last=Harrington |first=Richard |title=Allnighter:' Beach Bummer |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 7, 1987 |page=C08}} It was commercially unsuccessful. Hoffs said she expected it to fare better as a home video, as the production was more suitable for home than cinema viewing.{{cite magazine |title=Starspot: Susanna Hoffs |magazine=Video Review |date=December 1987|volume=8 |issue=9 |page=32}} She later told journalist Chris Hunt: "It was such a low budget quickie thing, a cutesy little teeny-bopper movie. It wasn't a great movie but the whole experience of it was great."{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.chrishunt.biz/features46.html|title=Let's Go to Bed: Susanna Hoffs Interview|magazine=Rage|year=1991|first=Chris|last=Hunt |author-link=Chris Hunt |access-date=November 14, 2013|archive-date=March 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323055546/http://www.chrishunt.biz/features46.html|url-status=live |via=Chris Hunt's website}}
In 1991, Hoffs released her first post-Bangles solo album, When You're a Boy.{{cite magazine|last=Nicol|first=Jimmy|date=March 5, 1991|title=When You're A Boy review|magazine=Q |volume=55|pages=71}} It begins with the Billboard Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed", which also charted in the UK at number 44.{{sfn|Roberts|2006|p=254}} It includes the track "Unconditional Love" and ends with a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging", the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. The album was a critical failure;{{sfn|Zeck|1995|p=354}} it reached number 83 in the US album charts and number 56 in the UK album charts.{{sfn|Brennan|McConnell|1998|p=46}} In The Times, Sinclair felt that with the exception of the Bowie cover, the album was an "airbrushed exercise in boredom".{{cite news |last=Sinclair |first=David |title=Records: Rock: This is from the heart |date=March 22, 1991 |page=21}} It was rated as a "dud" by Christgau.{{cite web |first=Robert |last=Christgau |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Susanna Hoffs |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=susanna+hoffs |website=Robert Charistgau's website |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222541/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=susanna+hoffs |url-status=live }} In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2006), Colin Larkin gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, and argued that it "failed to maintain the interest of the mainstream fans who had discovered the Bangles in the wake of the smash single 'Eternal Flame', while simultaneously alienating the Paisley Underground loyalists with its AOR [Adult-oriented rock] clichés".{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=314}} The Trouser Press Record Guide entry by Ira Robbins panned the album as a "no-holds-barred commercial bore".{{sfn|Robbins|1991|p=39}} One upbeat assessment was provided by Alan Neister of The Globe and Mail, who found the album as good as the Bangles' best work: "Both as a songwriter and a song consumer, Hoffs has an ear fine-tuned to a great hook, and there isn't a song on this album that isn't hummable on the very first listen."{{cite news |last=Niester |first=Alan |title=Recordings of note: Rock: When you're a Boy |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=February 18, 1991 |page=C.4}} Jimmy Nicol of Q Magazine gave the album four out of five stars and wrote that Hoffs was extending into "undreamed of territories", adding "She reveals herself to be a highly inventive composer, lyricist – and even humourist".
Her second solo album, Susanna Hoffs, was issued on London Records in 1996. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised it as an "infectious and engaging set of melodic pop that also happens to be Hoffs' most introspective and personal record to date".{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/susanna-hoffs-mw0000611195 |title=Susanna Hoffs |work=AllMusic |access-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219102025/https://www.allmusic.com/album/susanna-hoffs-mw0000611195 |url-status=live }} Wook Kim of Entertainment Weekly remarked that Hoffs "performs a small act of bravery"{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1996/10/11/susanna-hoffs/|title=Susanna Hoffs|author=Wook Kim |date=October 11, 1996 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=October 9, 2023|archive-date=August 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822162640/https://ew.com/article/1996/10/11/susanna-hoffs/|url-status=live}} yet Larkin wrote that only one song, "King Of Tragedy", "had the edgy pop fizz of the Bangles' best work".{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=34}} Billboard reviewed the single, "Only Love", writing: "Energetic and harmonious ditty recalls heyday of '60s-era girl groups. Lots of fun."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1991/1991-06-29-Billboard-Page-0081.pdf#search=%22susanna%20hoffs%22|title=Pop Single Reviews|magazine=Billboard |date=June 29, 1991|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=September 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925221154/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1991/1991-06-29-Billboard-Page-0081.pdf#search=%22susanna%20hoffs%22|url-status=live}}
Hoffs covered the Oingo Boingo song "We Close Our Eyes" for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film soundtrack in 1992, and provided the title song for the 1995 film Now and Then.{{cite web |first=Tom |last=Demalon |title=Now & Then [Original Soundtrack] |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/now-then-original-soundtrack--mw0000177158 |work=AllMusic |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=April 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412075308/https://www.allmusic.com/album/now-then-original-soundtrack--mw0000177158 |url-status=live }} She also recorded her versions of Burt Bacharach songs for the soundtracks of two Austin Powers films – "The Look of Love" appears on the soundtrack of the first film in 1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and "Alfie" is on the soundtrack of the third, Austin Powers in Goldmember.{{cite web |last=Deming |first=Mark |title=Susanna Hoffs |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/susanna-hoffs-mn0000043241/biography |work=AllMusic |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528214425/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/susanna-hoffs-mn0000043241/biography |url-status=live }} Hoffs also contributed covers of "The Water Is Wide" and Donovan's "Catch the Wind" for the soundtrack of Tamar Simon Hoffs' 2003 film Red Roses and Petrol.{{cite web |title=Music |url=http://www.redrosesandpetrol.com/music.html |website=Red Roses and Petrol official website |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=March 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329085849/http://redrosesandpetrol.com/music.html |url-status=live }}
Hoffs self-released her third solo album of new material (and her first full album since 1996), Someday, on her Baroque Folk label on July 17, 2012. It was distributed by Vanguard Records.{{cite web |url=http://publicity.vanguardrecords.com/?page_id=4372 |title=Susanna Hoffs « Vanguard Records Publicity |publisher=Publicity.vanguardrecords.com |date=July 17, 2012 |access-date=December 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211154/http://publicity.vanguardrecords.com/?page_id=4372 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 }} American Songwriter gave Someday a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars and described it as "easily and undeniably Hoffs' most definitive musical statement to date".{{Cite web|url = https://americansongwriter.com/susanna-hoffs-someday/|title = Susanna Hoffs: Someday|date = August 6, 2012|access-date = July 26, 2021|archive-date = July 26, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210726040510/https://americansongwriter.com/susanna-hoffs-someday/ |magazine=American Songwriter |url-status = live}} James Reed from the Boston Globe wrote: "Someday reminds you that Hoffs is perfectly suited to sunny, winsome material{{nbsp}}... her performance on Someday isn't that removed from how she sounded on say, 'Eternal Flame'."{{cite news |last=Reed |first=James |title=Ex-Bangle Susanna Hoffs dips into the sounds of her past |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=G3 |date=October 29, 2012}} The tracks include a newly recorded version of "November Sun", which Hoffs had initially recorded for another unrealized album project in 2000. Produced by Mitchell Froom, the album is influenced by the music of the 1960s and features Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas from Elvis Costello's band, the Imposters, and keyboards and orchestration by Froom.{{cite magazine |last=Valentine Smith |first=Lee |title=Walk like a mogul |url=https://issuu.com/insiteatlanta/docs/insiteissueweb-oct12/22 |magazine=INsite Atlanta |date=October 2012 |page=22 |via=Isuu |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606203305/https://issuu.com/insiteatlanta/docs/insiteissueweb-oct12/22 |url-status=live }} Larkin wrote: "The Bangles folded in 1989 partly because Susanna Hoffs was being touted as the 'star' in a previously egalitarian band. It is ironic, therefore, that her solo career failed to come close to the success enjoyed by her old band."{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=34}} Hoffs contributed vocals to "One Voice", the end credits song for the film A Dog Named Gucci (2016), a track also featuring Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Brian May and Kathryn Calder. "One Voice" was released on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with profits from the sale of the single going to benefit animal charities.{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/64624-neko-case-aimee-mann-norah-jones-brian-may-more-contribute-track-to-anti-animal-abuse-movie |title=Neko Case, Aimee Mann, Norah Jones, Brian May, More Contribute Track to Anti-Animal Abuse Movie |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=April 6, 2016 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629043657/https://pitchfork.com/news/64624-neko-case-aimee-mann-norah-jones-brian-may-more-contribute-track-to-anti-animal-abuse-movie/ |url-status=live }}
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Bright Lights, Hoffs' fourth studio album, was released on Baroque Folk Records in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/susanna-hoffs-shines-on-bright-lights/|title=Susanna Hoffs Shines on 'Bright Lights' |first=Tina |last=Benitez-Eves|publisher=American Songwriter|date=December 31, 2021|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822182854/https://americansongwriter.com/susanna-hoffs-shines-on-bright-lights/|url-status=live}} The record was produced by Paul Bryan and features versions of songs by Nick Drake, Michael Nesmith, Richard Thompson, Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger, and other songwriters. The album includes "Name of the Game", featuring Mann.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bangles-susanna-hoffs-aimee-mann-badfinger-name-of-the-game-cover-1242131/|title=Susanna Hoffs, Aimee Mann Team Up to Cover Badfinger's Power Pop Classic 'Name of the Game' – Track will appear on the Bangles frontwoman's new covers album, Bright Lights |first=Jon |last=Blistein|magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 15, 2021|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822183736/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bangles-susanna-hoffs-aimee-mann-badfinger-name-of-the-game-cover-1242131/|url-status=live}} Jonathan Keefe of In Review Online wrote, "Hoffs is in fantastic voice throughout the album" and praised the versatility of her renditions.{{cite web| last=Keefe |first=Jonathan |url=https://inreviewonline.com/2021/12/24/bright-lights/#:~:text=Bright%20Lights%20is%20a%20cohesive,to%20in%20their%20formative%20years|title=Susanna Hoffs – Bright Lights|publisher=In Review Online|date=December 24, 2021|access-date=August 23, 2023|archive-date=August 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823211617/https://inreviewonline.com/2021/12/24/bright-lights/#:~:text=Bright%20Lights%20is%20a%20cohesive,to%20in%20their%20formative%20years|url-status=live}}
Her fifth solo album, 2023's The Deep End, was produced by Peter Asher;{{cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/susanna-hoffs-the-deep-end-album-review/|title=Susanna Hoffs, 'The Deep End': Album Review |first=Gary |last=Graff|publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=April 5, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822185305/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/susanna-hoffs-the-deep-end-album-review/|url-status=live}} The album includes interpretations of songs by the Rolling Stones, Squeeze, and Lesley Gore and received favorable reviews; Lily Moayeri of Spin Magazine wrote, "Hoffs' voice is immediately recognizable, clear and sweet, hitting all the notes she did some 40 years ago. But her singular interpretations are so unique, they sometimes render the songs unrecognizable—in a good way."{{cite web |first=Lily |last=Moayeri |url=https://www.spin.com/2023/04/susanna-hoffs-music-is-the-beginning-middle-and-end-of-every-day-for-me/|title=Susanna Hoffs: 'Music Is The Beginning, Middle and End Of Every Day For Me'|work=Spin (magazine)|date=April 7, 2023|access-date=September 20, 2023|archive-date=April 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421181704/https://www.spin.com/2023/04/susanna-hoffs-music-is-the-beginning-middle-and-end-of-every-day-for-me/|url-status=live}} Gary Graff of Ultimate Classic Rock wrote that the album was a "delight, a demonstration of good taste and guts with Hoffs sounding as beguiling as she did lighting 'Eternal Flame' or having a 'Manic Monday' more than 30 years ago".
Hoffs co-wrote songs for the Go-Go's, Belinda Carlisle, and Bette Midler.{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/3-songs-you-didnt-know-the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-wrote-for-other-artists/|title=3 Songs You Didn't Know The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs Wrote for Other Artists|publisher=American Songwriter|date=January 16, 2023|access-date=September 29, 2023|archive-date=September 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912235009/https://americansongwriter.com/3-songs-you-didnt-know-the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-wrote-for-other-artists/|url-status=live}} She sang on albums by artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Travis and the Lilith Fair: Celebration of Music compilation album (with Sarah McLachlin, Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris, and others).{{cite news |title=Lilith Lineup Shaping Up; Arista sets Debut April 28 |newspaper=The Fresno Bee |page=88 |date=April 19, 1998}} In 1992, she won Best Female Rock Vocalist at the Pro L.A. Music Awards.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1992/1992-03-07-Billboard-Page-0032.pdf#search=%22susanna%20hoffs%22|title=Pro Set L.A. Music Awards|magazine=Billboard|date=March 7, 1992|access-date=September 26, 2023|archive-date=September 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926224523/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1992/1992-03-07-Billboard-Page-0032.pdf#search=%22susanna%20hoffs%22|url-status=live}}
Hoffs' debut novel, This Bird Has Flown, a romantic comedy about a struggling musician, was published by Little Brown in 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/books/review/this-bird-has-flown-susanna-hoffs.html|title=The Smart, Ferocious Rock-Star Redemption Romance You Didn't Know You Needed |first=Beatriz |last=Williams|work=The New York Times|date=March 25, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529011046/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/books/review/this-bird-has-flown-susanna-hoffs.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=This Bird Has Flown: A Novel |isbn=978-0-316-40931-5 |last1=Hoffs |first1=Susanna |date=April 4, 2023 |publisher=Little, Brown }}{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/books/the-bangles-singer-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-this-bird-has-flown/ |title=The Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs says 'music informed the journey' of writing her debut novel |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=August 10, 2022 |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318193418/https://ew.com/books/the-bangles-singer-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-this-bird-has-flown/ |url-status=live }} It received a favorable review from Beatriz Williams in the New York Times, who called it "the smart, ferocious, rock-chick redemption romance you didn't know you needed". Positive critical commentary also came from Mark Weingarten in the Los Angeles Times,{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-04-03/why-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-about-a-pop-star-is-way-more-original-than-youd-think|title=The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs wrote her debut novel about a pop star – It's not her|first=Marc|last=Weingarten|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 3, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820183641/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-04-03/why-susanna-hoffs-debut-novel-about-a-pop-star-is-way-more-original-than-youd-think|url-status=live}} Michael Schaub of NPR,{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168120914/the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-book-this-bird-has-flown-is-a-love-story|title=Susanna Hoffs' 'This Bird Has Flown' is a love story — and a valentine to music|first=Michael|last=Schaub|publisher=NPR|date=April 5, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=September 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911164944/https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168120914/the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-book-this-bird-has-flown-is-a-love-story|url-status=live}} and from Kirkus Reviews.{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/susanna-hoffs/this-bird-has-flown/|title=This Bird has Flown|publisher=Kirkus Review|date=April 4, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831144903/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bookshelf-button/2000230547/|url-status=live}} Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the novel for a screen adaptation.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/this-bird-has-flown-film-based-on-susanna-hoffs-book-in-works-at-uni-1235168799/|title='This Bird Has Flown' Film Based On Music Biz Novel by The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs In Works At Universal|first=Matt|last=Grobar|publisher=Deadline|date=November 10, 2022|access-date=August 18, 2023|archive-date=August 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824014919/https://deadline.com/2022/11/this-bird-has-flown-film-based-on-susanna-hoffs-book-in-works-at-uni-1235168799/|url-status=live}}
In 2024, Hoffs released, The Lost Record, an album she had recorded in her garage in 1999. The record was produced by Hoffs and Dan Schwartz and includes, "Life on the Inside" (co-written with Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's).{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/susanna-hoffs-identity-crisis-the-lost-record-1235799582/|title= Susanna Hoffs on How an 'Identity Crisis' Shaped 'The Lost Record' |first=Gary |last=Graff |publisher=Billboard|date=October 18, 2024|access-date=December 12, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-to-share-previously-unreleased-album-from-1999-the-lost-record-featuring-members-of-the-go-gos/|title= The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs to Share Previously Unreleased Album From 1999, 'The Lost Record,' Featuring Members of the Go-Go's |first=Tina |last=Benitez-Eves|publisher=American Songwriter|date=September 26, 2024|access-date=December 12, 2024}} In 2025, she was a featured performer at "People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith" at Carnegie Hall, which included performances by Bruce Springsteen, Chrissie Hynde, and Michael Stipe. Rolling Stone wrote, "Hoffs delivered an excellent rendition of 'Kimberly,'" and Variety said "Hoffs’ pop-influenced interpretation of “Kimberly” was joyful."{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/susanna-hoffs-rerecords-eternal-flame-bangles-1235308873/|title=Susanna Hoffs Re-Records Eternal Flame: I'm Still that Same Girl - The Bangles icon, fresh off a killer performance at Patti Smith's recent tribute concert, revisits her beloved ballad by Angie Martoccio|publisher=Rolling Stone |date=April 2, 2025 |accessdate=April 6, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2025/music/concert-reviews/patti-smith-tribute-springsteen-scarlett-johansson-concert-review-1236349905/|title=Patti Smith Tribute, With Bruce Springsteen, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Stipe, Karen O and Patti Herself, Lights Up Carnegie Hall: Concert Review by Caryn Rose|publisher=Variety |date=March 27, 2025 |accessdate=April 6, 2025}}
Other collaborations
=Ming Tea=
{{main|Ming Tea}}
Mike Myers, musician Matthew Sweet, and Hoffs formed the core of the faux-British 1960s band Ming Tea after Myers left Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s.{{cite web |title=Mike Myers |url=http://www.digitalhit.com/cr/mikemyers/ |work=Digital Hit |publisher=Digital Hit Entertainment/ Multiplex Theatre Properties Inc |access-date=July 29, 2012 |year=1997–2012 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628154424/https://www.digitalhit.com/cr/mikemyers/ |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Abbey|Hillstrom|2004|p=101}} With Myers developing the Austin Powers character he had created, and with Hoffs pausing her solo career, they first met to play informally and all adopted pseudonyms for the band – Sweet became Sid Belvedere, and Hoffs became Gillian Shagwell.{{cite web | title= Q&A With Susanna Hoffs And Matthew Sweet | website= Magnet Magazine | url= https://magnetmagazine.com/2009/07/20/qa-with-susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet/ | date= July 20, 2009| access-date= July 19, 2023 | archive-date= August 29, 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210829172011/https://magnetmagazine.com/2009/07/20/qa-with-susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet/ | url-status= live }} The trio played live at nightclubs in Los Angeles.{{sfn|Abbey|Hillstrom|2004|p=101}}{{sfn|Burton-Faulkner|1998|p=329}} Myers' then-wife, Robin Ruzan, encouraged him to write a film based on the character.{{sfn|Abbey|Hillstrom|2004|p=101}} The result was Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Hoffs' husband Jay Roach.{{sfn|Abbey|Hillstrom|2004|p=101}}{{cite magazine |first=Ann |last=Marsh |title=Farce Majeure |magazine=Stanford Magazine|url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/farce-majeure |date=July 2007 }} Ming Tea appeared in all three Austin Powers films and recorded the songs "BBC" and "Daddy Wasn't There" for two of the soundtrack albums.
=With Matthew Sweet=
Hoffs teamed with Sweet, as "Sid and Susie", to record several cover versions of classic rock songs from the 1960s for their album Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (2006).{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/matthew-sweet-and-susanna-hoffs-cover-the-eighties |title=Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs Cover the Eighties |date=November 12, 2013 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=May 3, 2018 |language=en |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=May 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504090228/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/matthew-sweet-and-susanna-hoffs-cover-the-eighties |url-status=live }} Hoffs and Sweet released a follow-up, Under the Covers, Vol. 2 in 2009, featuring songs from the 1970s by Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, and Rod Stewart, among others.{{Cite web|url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/under-the-covers-vol-2-mw0000821224|title = Under the Covers, Vol. 2|last = Erlewine|first = Stephen Thomas|website = AllMusic|access-date = August 31, 2023|archive-date = October 28, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211028165649/https://www.allmusic.com/album/under-the-covers-vol-2-mw0000821224|url-status = live}} Under the Covers, Vol. 3 was released in 2013, featuring cover songs from the 1980s, the decade when both of their careers began; the album included covers of songs by the Smiths, the Pretenders, and Roxy Music.{{Cite web|url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002578274/Overview|title = Under the Covers, Vol. 3 – Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs |last=Erlewine |first= Stephen Thomas|website = AllMusic|access-date = July 26, 2021|archive-date = July 26, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210726041003/https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002578274/Overview|url-status = live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet-go-80s-on-third-covers-album-exclusive-song-5657753/|title=Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet Go '80s on Third 'Covers' Album: Exclusive Song |first=Gary |last=Graff|magazine=Billboard |date=August 19, 2013|access-date=October 12, 2023|archive-date=October 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017025405/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet-go-80s-on-third-covers-album-exclusive-song-5657753/|url-status=live}} In 2013, Hoffs collaborated with Sweet and Tim Robbins on a recording of the traditional song "Marianne" for the sea shanty–themed compilation Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/son-of-rogues-gallery-pirate-ballads-sea-songs-chanteys-mw0002476575|title=Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys – Various Artists |work=AllMusic|access-date=August 29, 2021|archive-date=April 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410194629/https://www.allmusic.com/album/son-of-rogues-gallery-pirate-ballads-sea-songs-chanteys-mw0002476575|url-status=live}}
=With Travis=
Equipment
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Hoffs learned to play electric guitar on a Gibson SG. Influenced by the Byrds and the Beatles, she changed to a Rickenbacker because she liked its "jangly, bright sound" and purchased a 1960s model with black and white checked binding. She used this on the early Bangles recordings, but after some work on the guitar that affected its feel, she bought a Rickenbacker 325. She is depicted on the cover of All Over the Place holding her Rickenbacker 325V63. Musicologist Peter Mercer-Taylor observed that it was "a black and white 6-string with three pick-ups and a hole for a vibrato bar, though the bar is not in place. Shortly after its 1963 appearance, this had become John Lennon's signature instrument."{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|1998|p=191}}
Hoffs used the 325 on some of the band's recordings, but found it hard to tune, and said that it "ended up being more of a video guitar". For some time, her main instrument was a borrowed Fender Telecaster, and she also used a Fender Stratocaster (including for live shows in 1984 and 1985); two Rickenbacker 350s and two Rickenbacker 620/12s (obtained during the Different Light sessions); and a Fritz Brothers Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster.
She contributed to the design of a Susanna Hoffs model of the Rickenbacker 350 released in 1988 and 1989.{{cite magazine |first=Kraig |last=Sollenberger |url=https://www.vintageguitar.com/2991/susanna-hoffs/|date=September 2004|title=Susanna Hoffs: Yesterdays... And Today |magazine=Vintage Guitar | access-date=June 9, 2023|archive-date=September 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172537/https://www.vintageguitar.com/2991/susanna-hoffs/|url-status=live}}
After the dissolution of the Bangles, Hoffs played a Taylor K22; she later worked with Taylor on the Susanna Hoffs Signature Series of guitars. She also has a 1966 12-string Guild Starfire which she says provides an "incredible bright-but-warm sound", as used for tracks on Doll Revolution.
Personal life
In the 1980s, Hoffs had a brief but intense relationship with Prince. She also dated the actor Michael J. Fox for a short period in 1986, although neither have any memory of it.{{cite news |first=Christi |last=Carras |date=May 8, 2023 |title=Michael J. Fox 'can't even remember' dating Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-05-08/michael-j-fox-susanna-hoffs-bangles-relationship |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite magazine |last=Delaney |first=Sam |date=July 14, 2023 |title=Susanna Hoffs: The Bangles were scrappy and we protected each other |url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/susanna-hoffs-the-bangles-were-scrappy-and-we-protected-each-other/ |magazine=The Big Issue }} In 1988 she met the actor Donovan Leitch, and the pair were in a relationship that lasted for about two years until 1991.{{cite magazine |last1=Freeman |first1=P. |last2=Alexander |first2=M. |title=Bangle Susanna Hoffs and actor Donovan Leitch, son of just plain Donovan, mellow together |magazine=Peoplae |date=June 12, 1989 }}{{cite news |first=Ann |last=Kolson, Knight-Ridder Tribune News. |date=August 2, 1991 |title=Beyond Bangles: Susanna Hoffs settles into her new role as an opening act |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |page=3}} She married filmmaker Jay Roach in 1993,{{Cite news|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|date=August 6, 2010|title='Schmucks' Director Redefines the Term|work=St. Louis Jewish Light|url=http://www.stljewishlight.com/features/arts_culture/schmucks-director-redefines-the-term/article_d63743d2-9fec-11df-a6de-001cc4c002e0.html|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823134952/https://www.stljewishlight.com/features/arts_culture/schmucks-director-redefines-the-term/article_d63743d2-9fec-11df-a6de-001cc4c002e0.html|archive-date=August 23, 2019}} and they have two sons, born in 1995 and 1998.{{cite news |work=The Sun-Herald |title=No more manic Mondays |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/no-more-manic-mondays/2005/09/04/1125772400754.html |access-date=August 15, 2010 |date=September 5, 2005 |archive-date=August 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826071357/http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/no-more-manic-mondays/2005/09/04/1125772400754.html |url-status=live }} Roach converted to Judaism when they married. In a 2023 interview with Debbie Millman for Print magazine, Hoffs said, "In my life, it took many relationships to realize that Jay was the right partner for me."{{cite magazine |last=Millman |first=Debbie |author-link=Debbie Millman |title=Design Matters: Susanna Hoffs |magazine=Print |url=https://www.printmag.com/podcasts/2023/design-matters-susanna-hoffs/ |date=April 3, 2023 }}
Legacy
Hoffs inspired the Los Angeles–based rock band the Three O'Clock to write the song "The Girl with the Guitar (Says Oh Yeah)" for their 1985 album Arrive Without Travelling.{{cite magazine |title=The Paisley Underground |url=https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/paisley-underground |magazine=Record Collector |date=March 18, 2019 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609225215/https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/paisley-underground |url-status=live }} In 2002, the alternative country artist Robbie Fulks wrote the paean "That Bangle Girl".{{cite web |title=Robbie Fulks: The Very Best Of Robbie Fulks |first=Nathan |last=Rabin |url=https://www.avclub.com/robbie-fulks-the-very-best-of-robbie-fulks-1798194101#! |website=The AV Club |date=March 29, 2002 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719223024/https://www.avclub.com/robbie-fulks-the-very-best-of-robbie-fulks-1798194101#! |url-status=live }}
The Bangles are one of the most successful all-female rock bands.{{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Alex|title=The girls are back in town |newspaper=The Times |date=September 7, 2001 |page=S1.10 |quote=one of the most successful girl groups ever, bar Bananarama}}{{cite news |last=Zuel |first=Bernard |title=Back from all over the place |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |date=October 29, 2005 |page=33 |quote=the most successful all-female rock band of the 1980s}}{{cite news |title=Live!; Who: The Bangles, opening act TBA When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: State Theatre, Falls Church |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 21, 2009 |page=T.6 |quote=One of the most successful all-female groups of the modern pop-rock era, and influential, too}} Like their contemporaries the Go-Go's, and Joan Jett and Suzi Quatro earlier, the Bangles composed songs and played instruments.{{sfn|MacLeod|2015|p=132}} This made them unlike most popular women musical artists of the 1980s, who were principally vocalists.{{sfn|MacLeod|2015|p=132}} The music historian Sean MacLeod posited that the success of the Go-Go's and the Bangles as women in what were usually male roles in rock music opened a path for groups like Hole, Elastica and Dum Dum Girls.{{sfn|MacLeod|2015|p=132}} The Bangles were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000,{{cite web |title=The Bangles |website=Vocal Group Hall of Fame |url=https://vocalgroup.org/inductees/the-bangles/ |access-date=August 1, 2024 }} and to the Goldmine Hall of Fame in 2013.{{cite magazine |first=Phill |last=Marder |title=Goldmine's Hall of Fame Inductees - Volume 36 |magazine=Goldmine |url=https://www.goldminemag.com/news/goldmines-hall-of-fame-inductees-volume-36 |date=October 17, 2013}} They were presented with the Icon Award at the 2015 She Rocks Awards, thirty years after the release of All Over the Place.{{cite web |title=Previous Honorees |url=https://sherocksawards.com/past-honorees/ |website=She Rocks Awards |access-date=July 31, 2024}}
Discography
{{See also|The Bangles discography|Rainy Day (band)|label2=Rainy Day}}
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2012 | style="text-align:left;"| Some Summer Days |
2012 | style="text-align:left;"| From Me to You |
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Filmography
Notes
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References
Citations
{{Reflist}}
Books and journal articles
- {{cite book |title=Biography Today: Performing Artists |volume=3 |first1=Cherie D. |last1= Abbey |first2=Kevin |last2=Hillstrom |publisher=Omnigraphics |location=Detroit |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7808-0709-9}}
- {{cite book|title=The new Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor-last1=Brackett |editor-first1=Nathan|editor-last2=Hoard|editor-first2=Christian |last1=Evans |first1=Paul |last2=Lechner |first2=Ernesto |year=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |chapter=The Bangles |pages=43–44|isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8}}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Brennan |editor-first1=Luann |editor-last2=McConnell |editor-first2=Stacy |title=Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music |year=1998 |volume=22 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-1-4144-1305-1}}
- {{cite book |last=Dickerson |first=James |title=Go, Girl, Go! : The Women's Revolution in Music |year=2005 |location=New York |publisher=Schirmer |isbn=978-0-8256-7316-0 }}
- {{cite book |last=Gaar |first=Gillian |title=She's a Rebel: the History of Women in Rock & Roll |publisher=Seal Press |location=New York |edition=2nd |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-58005-078-4 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=George-Warren |editor1-first=Holly |editor2-last=Romanowski |editor2-first=Patricia |title=The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |publisher=Rolling Stone Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7432-9201-6 }}
- {{cite book |last=Hogan |first=Peter |title=The Bangles |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=London |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-7119-1960-0 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |editor-link=Colin Larkin |title=The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave |edition=Second |year=1995 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |isbn=978-0-85112-657-9}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |editor-link=Colin Larkin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |volume=4: Grenfell, Joyce - Koller, Hans | chapter=Hoffs, Susanna |page=314 |edition=4th |date=2006 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-531373-4 }}
- {{cite book |last=MacLeod |first=Sean |title=Leaders of The Pack: Girl Groups of The 1960S and Their Influence on Popular Culture in Britain and America |year=2015 |location=Lanham |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-5201-1 }}
- {{cite journal |title=Songs from the Bell Jar: Autonomy and Resistance in the Music of The Bangles |first=Peter |last=Mercer-Taylor |journal=Popular Music |volume=17 |issue=2 |date=May 1998 |pages=187–204|doi=10.1017/S0261143000000593 |s2cid=191623899 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Lee E. |last2=Miller |first2=Jessica |title=A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, and Create Your Way To Agreement |year=2002 |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-138915-0}}
- {{cite book |editor-first=Sean R. |editor-last=Pollock |last=Burton-Faulkner |first=Kimberley |title=Newsmakers '97 |chapter=Mike Myers |year=1998 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-7876-0107-2 |pages=327–330}}
- {{cite book |last=Robbins |first=Ira |title=The Trouser Press record guide |year=1991 |edition=4th |location=New York |publisher=Collier Books |isbn=978-0-02-036361-3}}
- {{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records | location= London | isbn= 978-1-904994-10-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia }}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Slonimsky |editor-first1=Nicolas |editor1-link=Nicolas Slonimsky |editor-last2=Kuhn |editor-first2=Laura |last=Bordowitz |first=Hank |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |volume=1: Aalt – Cone |chapter=Bangles, The |year=2001 |publisher=Schirmer |location=New York |isbn=978-0-02-865525-3 |pages=202–203}}
- {{cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin |title=The Great Rock Discography |year=2000 |location=Edinburgh |publisher= Mojo Books |isbn=978-1-84195-017-4 }}
- {{cite book |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rob |title=I Want My MTV: the Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution |year=2012 |location=New York |publisher=Plume |isbn=978-0-452-29856-9}}
- {{cite book |last=Warner |first=Jay |title=American Singing Groups: a History from 1940s to Today |publisher=Hal Leonard |location=Milwaukee |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-634-09978-6 }}
- {{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2012 |edition=14th |publisher=Record Research |location=Menomonee Falls |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-89820-205-2 }}
- {{cite book |editor-first=Peter M. |editor-last=Gareffa |last=Wiloch |first=Denise |title=Newsmakers 88 |chapter=Susanna Hoffs |year=1989 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-8103-2207-3 |pages=50–52}}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Lont |editor-first=Cynthia M. |title=Women and Media : Content, Careers, and Criticism |last=Zeck |first=Shari |chapter=21. 'The hero takes a fall': The Bangles and '80s pop |pages=349–356 |year=1995 |location=Belmont |publisher=Wadsworth |isbn=978-0-534-24732-4}}
External links
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- [http://www.thebangles.com/ The Bangles] official website
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- {{IMDb name|0005015|Susanna Hoffs}}
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