Chords for The Bangles on Open House with Gloria Hunniford, 2001, Part1

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_ Welcome back.
Now, the Spice Girls may have been the most famous girl band of the 90s,
but they were certainly not the first all-girl group to have massive chart success.
The 80s belonged to the Bengals, when hits like Manic Monday, Eternal Flame and Walk Like an Egyptian
absolutely dominated the top of the charts.
Now, with the release of their greatest hits album, an Atomic Kittens version of Eternal Flame,
reaching the number one spot, once again, everybody's talking about the Bengals.
So you'll be very pleased to hear that they're back together [A] again,
performing around the United Kingdom and are working on a new album due out next summer.
We're even more pleased that they're here with us this afternoon.
So, Will, you give a huge welcome to the Bengals.
We have Debbie, Vicky, Susanna and Michael.
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_ _ [N] Well, I have to tell you, we have some serious fans in our audience today.
I have just about _ contained them all afternoon.
It's very good to see you all back.
As a point of, before we talk about getting back together again,
what was the reason for giving up when you had such success?
We just all sort of whacked, really.
Yeah, we were exhausted.
We were just exhausted.
We were just barely functioning, kind of how we feel today, actually.
We're jet lagged.
But, yeah, it was just, [Ab] it was time.
We'd been touring almost non-stop for nine years
and we just needed [F] to find some balance in our lives.
And did you find it, do you think?
We did.
We did.
What sort of things did you do?
Let's start with Susanna.
I had a couple of babies, got married.
Oh, that keeps you busy.
And did a lot of music on my own.
Yeah, because you did, your husband, of course, directed Austin Powers, didn't he?
And Meet the Parents, yeah.
Yes.
So, you were very heavily, still very heavily involved in music.
Yeah.
Yes, I did.
I never stopped playing.
I never stopped [E] playing.
Never stopped playing? No.
I've been playing in a band for ten years in New Orleans.
That's the thing, you know, sometimes when you opt out of a very successful group or scenario,
people think that you sort of lay back and do nothing.
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Maybe they do.
We sure as.
I never thought of that.
So, Vicki, what did you do, precisely?
I've played music in a band called the Continental Drifters out of New Orleans, Louisiana.
And it's an entirely different kind of music, but it's been great.
What kind of music?
It's almost Cajun rock pop folk square port convention meets Fleetwood Mac.
A plethora of music.
A plethora of music.
There's a lot of us, too.
But it's fun.
It's really great.
So, you've had to say goodbye to that, have you?
For a while.
I'm focusing on doing the new Bangles CD.
I'm very excited about that.
And Debbie?
Well, I had a group called Kindred Spirit, and we, in fact, did a little UK tour with Joan Armatraining.
And then that sort of petered out a little bit.
And then I had a little boy.
Oh, fantastic.
So, what do you do with your children, your collective children now when you're touring?
We sell them.
We loan them out.
You've left them all behind in the States, have you?
They're home with Daddy, you know.
Make them work.
We really spend, you know, we're very careful about how much time we're away from the families.
Excellent.
Michael, you're not to be left out.
Well, you haven't had six babies, have you, or anything?
No, no, I collected a bunch of animals.
Oh, did you?
Yes, I did.
For a family.
You're not going to start writing books like our previous guest, are you?
It's possible.
Maybe, maybe, yeah.
And did all yours have names and things?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
I don't know.
I did a sort of a solo musical thing for a while.
Then I basically hit a wall with the music thing.
I had to kind of stop doing music for a while because my relationship with music was seriously impaired.
I think actually it does seem to happen with the majority of people, doesn't it, if they're together in a group?
There comes a point and you just think, I can't go on bashing this out, really.
Right.
So who was it then who made the suggestion, after all these individual solo careers, etc.,
etc.,
that you should all get back together again?
It's all her fault.
It's her fault.
It's all her fault.
So what made you think it's time to begin again?
I missed them terribly.
I really did.
Isn't that sad?
No, I did.
And I missed the camaraderie.
I missed playing music with these girls and I missed their friendship.
I just felt like we had such great chemistry when we sing together, when we play together.
It's just so natural and it's so much fun.
It's just fun being in an all-girl band.
What can I say?
It's a good job to have.
How much did it have to pay them to get all back in again?
Nothing.
I just had to work on it for years and years and years.
It didn't even occur to me to brag about it.
But did you all have to be highly persuaded to go back in the lineup?
It took seven years for her to get me in the fold.
No.
Yeah, she just tortured me.
Why did you play so hard to get?
Because I was really happy in the Continental Drifters.
And it _ was not a happy divorce, actually.
And it really took me ten years to get to that place where the balance was found.
And I said at that point, I was like, well, okay, now can we do it like we really want to do it?
And now can we keep control?
Now can we try and do it?
And that's what we're going to try and do this time.
Why did you have a problem before in terms of conflict of how you should do things?
Was that it?
Not within the band so much.
It just really did spiral out of our control.
With record companies?
Yeah, and the touring schedule managers.
So it just all got too much?
We sort of lost the focus.
Is it true that this greatest hits album came out and you didn't really know about it?
We had no idea.
We didn't know.
No.
How could that be?
The original greatest hits album came out, I don't know, about 11 years ago or something like that.
You know, 10 or 11 years ago.
At least in America.
I don't even know about it over here.
And what, suddenly just somebody rings you up and says, did you know it's on the charts?
Absolutely.
Number 17 on the charts.
What?
We were shocked.
Happy days, though, to find it's on the charts.
It was great.
We were very excited.
We were thrilled because we'd already been writing for about a year and a half.
We've been performing.
We're planning this CD.
We're going into the studio as soon as we get back to Los Angeles.
It's quite interesting, actually, this so-called girl power.
I mean, obviously, the Spice is really traded in that girl power.
So, considering you'd had enormous hits and that really you were the forerunner of all of that,
how did you react when you saw them traveling around the states and having massive success around the world?
They looked to me like they were having a really good time.
I thought that was very [G] playful, and I liked that.
I liked their spirit.
[N] It's different, though, because, again, we will reiterate, we're a band.
You know, there's a lot of vocal groups out there, and it's almost like a different level of performing, you know?
It's a different way to show your music.
Oh, yeah, of course.
But nevertheless, people always hone in on the girl power thing and the all-girl band.
You know, and as you say, the camaraderie and the energy in the way that you exude on stage.
So when Atomic Kitten had this hit then with your old one, because you'd had a number one with it as well,
did you like that version?
It's good.
It's sweet.
It's very nice.
It's sweet.
Sweet.
Oh, there they are.
Look how cute they are.
And we're so [Fm] inspired by their flat stomachs.
They must do massive amounts of crunch sit-ups.
You haven't had all those babies.
Yeah, that does make a difference.
It sure does.
It's like Trudy Stiley was telling me she does two hours of yoga every day.
But how do you have time when you're taking_
How do you have two hours every day to do it?
Anyway, girls, you are going to sing that number one that you had, of course, for us,
so I'm going to let you go to the other side of the house and get ready.
I just wish you all the very best and hope we see you back in this country again very soon.
Thank you very much indeed.
Thank you.
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