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The music video for "Walk Like an Egyptian" was nominated for Best Group Video at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. [13] It shows the Bangles performing the song at a concert and scenes of people dancing in poses similar to those depicted in the Ancient Egyptian reliefs that inspired Sternberg.
The band's second album, Different Light (January 1986), was more polished than its predecessor, [19] and with the help of the worldwide number-one hit "Walk Like an Egyptian" (written by Liam Sternberg), put the band firmly in the mainstream, reaching number two on the Billboard 200. [20]
Walk Like an Egyptian" was written by Liam Sternberg after seeing people on a ferry walking awkwardly to keep their balance as figures do in Ancient Egyptian reliefs; it became one of the most successful singles by the Bangles, hitting number one in the United States, [7] Denmark, [9] and the Netherlands, [10] as well as peaking at number three ...
Sternberg began his musical career as part of the late-1970s "Akron Sound" which included Devo and the Waitresses.A member of the band Jane Aire and the Belvederes, Sternberg curated an Akron Sound compilation album for Stiff Records, which gained the attention of rock critic Robert Christgau and brought national attention to the scene.
Given that the Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" had been ranked by Billboard as the number one single of 1987 and that the group had reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986 with "Manic Monday" and in 1987 with "Hazy Shade of Winter", the number-five Hot 100 peak of the lead single from their album Everything, "In Your Room", was a ...
In the UK, a new remix of "Walk Like an Egyptian" was released instead. With the band no longer operative, the single relied solely on radio play and its music video for promotion and performed poorly on the charts, only charting in the Netherlands at number 41 in July 1990. [1] This would be the band's last official single for 13 years.
The Bangles' 1984 debut LP All Over the Place is the band's only album with no Steele-written songs; her biggest showcase on the album is the bass solo on "Tell Me". In addition to All Over the Place , in 1984 Steele also wrote and recorded the political spoken-word piece "El Pollo Loco" for the double LP compilation Neighborhood Rhythms .
Music videos 13 The discography of the Bangles , an American all-female band, consists of five studio albums , ten compilation albums , one extended play , twenty-five singles , and three video albums.