Manic Monday was a huge hit, how did Prince come to write the song for the band?
Around the time that When Doves Cr y was a huge hit for him, he saw a video for our first single, Hero Takes a Fall. He loved the song and came to see us play a gig. Next thing, he jumped up on stage and played the guitar solo on the song. After that, he started showing up at our gigs and we ended up doing some recording in a sister studio in Hollywood to the one he was working in. We got word to say that he’d written a couple of songs for us, so I was sent to pick up these cassettes and there was Manic Monday. Remember that scene in That Thing You Do where the band hear their song on the radio for the first time? Well, we had one of those moments standing on a street corner in Washington DC. This convertible pulled up at the traffic lights blasting out Manic Monday and we all jumped up and down – we couldn’t believe it. How was your experience of being in an all-girl band? I was still in college when The Runaways were doing their thing, but I was really into The Go-Gos. The punk and N
