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The Bangles - Greatest Hits(#ad)
"Eternal Flame" is a love song by the American rock group called the Bangles. It is from their 1988 album Everything and was released in 1989, when it immediately became a hit single.
It also peaked at number one in the charts of nine different countries including Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the US.
"Eternal Flame" was written by the partnership of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg along with the Bangle’s very own Susanna Hoffs.
The song was Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly’s fifth Billboard Hot 100 number one in five years. The Bangles became the only third group to score multiple number ones in the US.
"Eternal Flame" is a ballad that was inspired by two eternal flames. One at the local synagogue in Palm Springs which Steinberg used to attend as a child and the other one at the grave site of Elvis Presley that the Bangles saw when they visited Graceland.
"Eternal Flame" is a soft, soothing number, also a ballad completely different from super, energetic up-tempo songs,the band is known for..including "Walk Like a Egyptian", their most popular number to date.
Hoffs one of the girls in the group was interviewed in a BBC programme called I’M in a Girl Group. Here, she revealed that she actually sang the studio recording of the song when she was completely naked.
This was after the producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her telling her that Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing which she later found out it was a big lie.
"Eternal Flame" spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and it also topped the US adult contemporary chart for two weeks.
It debuted on the UK singles chart in February 1989 at number 81 and on April it peaked at number one. The music video has more than 26 million views on YouTube.
The Bangles - Eternal Flame - Lyrics
Release Date - February 17, 1989
Album - Everything
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame
I believe it's meant to be, darling
I watch you when you are sleeping
You belong with me
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame
Say my name sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then you come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling
Track Listings -
1, Hero Takes A Fall
2, Going Down To Liverpool
3, Manic Monday
4, If She Knew What She Wants
5, Walk Like an Egyptian
6, Walking Down Your Street
7, Following
8, Hazy Shade of Winter
9, In Your Room
10, Eternal Flame
11, Be With You
12, I'll Set You Free
13, Everything I Wanted
14, Where Were You When I Needed You
