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With the Go-Go’s gone-gone, none other than the Purple Prince has tapped these L.A. ladies as their gurl-group successors, pop division. To seal the coronation, Minneapolis’s King of Rock has helped crown the Bangles queens by providing them with the jaunty, “Raspberry Beret”-like nursery rhyme hop of “Manic Monday,” the first single from their second, and latest, LP, Different Light.