Susanna Hoffs Turns Her Notebook Into The List

Susanna Hoffs has written the names of people she dated since her youth in a leather-bound notebook. Hoffs turned that notebook into The List, her first collection of original songs in 14 years. The entire The List album was recorded in the living room of Hoffs’s home.

Hoffs married Jay Roach in 1993. Her group The Bangles performed many hits on MTV during the Eighties. The Bangles’ first album was All Over the Place, released in 1984. Hero Takes a Fall was written by Hoffs and guitarist Vicki Peterson and received major attention on MTV.

Prince wrote Manic Monday for The Bangles, and the song reached second place on the Hot 100 chart. While Hoffs and David Roback were living together in Berkeley, they formed their first group, Unconscious. The Bangles were part of the Paisley Underground scene from which the 1984 album Rainy Day emerged.