Fact #182668

Susannah Hoffs (The Bangles) : We’re slugging it out on the club scene, making the calls ourselves to the club owners. At some point, Miles Copeland finds out about us and we meet with him. He becomes our manager, so things escalate a little bit. We record an EP as The Bangs. All the artwork is virtually done. But on the eve of that record going to print in 1982, Miles is notified that a boy band on the East Coast called the Bangs is insisting that we change our name… or pay. So we have 48 hours to come up with a new name. That’s how we became the Bangles. The EP comes out on Miles’ Faulty Products label - which turned out to be faulty because the label folded while we were on tour with the English Beat.
(Source : interview with Kelly McCartney, Cuepoint, June 2015.