Interview With Vicki Peterson of The Bangles

song. I’m looking forward to them coming through LA this fall.

Congrats on the wedding! Any plans to collaborate musically with your husband?

Well, thank you, I’m pretty pleased about it myself. John is nudging me towards a couple of things which might happen, but you can bet that our life is a daily musical collaboration in one sense or another. He’s such a good singer—I get shy!

Will you have to do a revised version of “Single By Choice?”

Working on it. No, seriously, I still hear from women for whom that song is an anthem. Right on. Be happy with who you are!

What band from the ‘80s would you like to see get back together and be on VH-1’s Bands Reunited?

Uhhh…Is there really anyone who hasn’t reunited? I’m afraid that I can’t think of anyone I terribly miss.

How did you get started in music?

I don’t know. It got started in me.

What was your first band and what type of music did they play?

I was a solo artist from the ages of 9-15 (translation: I was a kid who brought her guitar to every sleep-over and summer afternoon in the park to play her newest creation to anyone who would listen…), but then I got Serious In high school with my friend Amanda and my sister Debbi and my boyfriend Joel. We played cover songs: some cool, but mostly atrocious. Amanda and I were writing songs together, but Joel didn’t think we should be attempting original material yet.

So we did the only reasonable thing: I broke up with Joel, which in effect broke up the band, only to reform it within minutes as an all-girl power trio. This, of course, is the seriously truncated version of a long, convoluted band history which is being documented as we speak and will eventually show its face in the form of a book written by myself and the aforementioned Amanda.

How did you become a member of the Bangles?

The story continues as our heroines suffer the vagaries of life: Amanda leaves the band for the academic life and Debbi and Vicki are left to make their next move which is (as these things so often are) actually made for them. Vicki

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