Eternal Flame by The Bangles

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Lead singer Susanna Hoffs teamed up with one of the great pop songwriters of the 80s and 90s, Billy Steinberg, to write the perfect finale to The Bangles' career. With this song and “Walk Like an Egyptian”, the Bangles became only the third girl group to score multiple #1s in the United States, after the Supremes (12) and the Shirelles (2). Steinberg explains the song’s origins: Susanna was talking about the Bangles having visited Graceland, and she said there was some type of shrine to Elvis that included some kind of eternal flame. As soon as those words were mentioned, I immediately thought of the synagogue in the town of Palm Springs, California where I grew up. I remember during our Sunday school class they would walk us through the sanctuary. There was one little red light and they told us it was called the eternal flame.