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BANGLES MAKE IT BIG!

If it wasn’t for another band someplace else that almost no one has heard about, the Bangles would probably be known as the Bangs today. Seems this allfemale four-piece unit was known exactly as that back in their early garage-punk/pseudo-Mod days, but were forced to add the “les” to their name when it was discovered that another band called the Bangs already owned the name.

August 2, 1986

BANGLES MAKE IT BIG!

If it wasn’t for another band someplace else that almost no one has heard about, the Bangles would probably be known as the Bangs today. Seems this allfemale four-piece unit was known exactly as that back in their early garage-punk/pseudo-Mod days, but were forced to add the “les” to their name when it was discovered that another band called the Bangs already owned the name.

So the girls changed their name, recorded an EP simply called The Bangles (distributed by I.R.S. Records), went on a short tour opening for the English Beat, got signed by Columbia Records—and the rest is, as they say, rock history...or her-story, depending on your point of view.

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