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2003 Guardian Interview[edit]

Tbhotch: I don't know if you're interested in expanding the article, but I found an interview in The Guardian from 2003 that briefly touches upon the song:[1]

But they did find themselves in the peculiar situation of having a string of hits that didn't really sound like them. It began when Prince took a shine to the band and gave them a present: a box containing a tape of Manic Monday. Despite painfully rhyming "Sunday" with "I-don't-have-to-run day", it was an international hit. It was also their eventual undoing. The Bangles' cherished insistence that they were equals and didn't have a traditional frontperson evaporated in the face of Hoffs' lead vocal and false press rumours of a romance with Prince.
"It was a slippery slope," says Peterson. "By the time we released singles where it really was multiple vocals, it didn't really defuse that perception. People like to paint it as girls having a catfight but it was more the frustration of not being perceived as a unit."

A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 23:18, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you A Quest for that useful information, I just added, and thus these rumors are closed. Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 00:38, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: — Legolas ^(talk2me) 12:05, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tbhotch, I will be starting the review of the article soon. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 12:05, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful work, there just some MoS and formatting issues which I can happily do, as its an easy pass. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 10:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS, my personal favourite is always "Venus". — Legolas ^(talk2me) 10:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review and the c/e, is greatly appreciated. Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 17:51, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Progression[edit]

The progression, from D to A7 in the beginning, is all wrong. Anyone without a tin ear can hear it. Unfortunately, this error has been propagated to many other 'pedias'. Brett Alexander Hunter (talk) 13:22, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cat Stevens[edit]

Is there no reference which mentions the similarity to Cat's "The Wind". To me it sounds almost certainly plagiarized or at least heavily influenced by it. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:55, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]