GROWING UP IN the Sixties and early Seventies, all the future Bangles were mad for the Beatles. Susanna Hoffs used to pose in front of the mirror, pretending she was on stage with the Fabs. Michael Steele wore a mop-top wig and did skits in school. Debbi and Vicki Peterson dreamed of forming a band that would be the next Beatles.
“As I grew up, instead of wanting to marry Paul McCartney, I wanted to be him,” guitarist/vocalist Vicki Peterson says. “And it was kind of magical that the four of us found each other, because we all shared the same obsession with the British Invasion, and the Beatles especially. They were our musical school. Their songwriting structures, harmonizing, and even the fact that there were four strong personalities with three
