Published On: June 5, 2019 01:35 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Remembering when Prince wrote that song for you

Remembering when Prince wrote that song for you

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By the mid-1980s, the Bangles were already a successful band, touring across the world with airplay on college radio, but they hadn’t hit the mainstream in a major way. That’s when Prince gave them the gift of a lifetime by crafting a perfect piece of pop confection known to the masses as “Manic Monday.”

The midtempo ditty about the frustrations about the start of the workweek, released in 1986, became their first top 10 hit, paving the way for a slew of others to come. Yet when Susanna Hoffs thinks back to the song, she has one regret — that she didn’t get a chance to thank Prince years later. When she talks about it now, the tears flow freely.

“I feel so sad just thinking that,” she said, crying, in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “As an adult I wanted to thank him and I just didn’t get around to it.” She adds: “It’s like to this day, that song, I’ll always love singing it. And I love that it’s such a universal theme, and that it ... resonates with people in a really deep way.”
Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles. Prince’s mastery in songwriting didn’t just benefit the Bangles: The late superstar penned some of the biggest hits of other acts’ careers, from Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” to Sheila E’s “The Glamorous Life.”

Demo versions of those songs and more appear on the new posthumous album, “Originals.” Jay-Z helped select the songs on the album, which will be available on the music mogul’s Tidal streaming platform exclusively for two weeks starting Friday, which would have been Prince’s 61st birthday. The album will be widely available on June 21.

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