Susanna Hoffs is zooming from her sunlit house in California, all glass, golden wood and high ceilings. “We’ve got great acoustics in here,” says the one everybody remembers from the Bangles. She hosted a home concert just before lockdown featuring Neil Finn of Crowded House, Colin Hay of Men at Work and Billy Steinberg, who co-wrote Madonna’s Like a Virgin. Steinberg sang I Touch Myself, the song he penned for Divinyls. That’s a lot of Eighties pop power in one room. “It was a very festive night!” she says.
Hoffs seems like a very festive person, as well she might after a career with the Bangles stuffed with mega-hits: Manic Monday, their breakthrough of 1986, given to them by Prince; Walk Like
