TL;DR: Prince gave The Bangles “Manic Monday” even though he intended it for another band. A member of The Bangles discussed what it was like to perform the song while Prince was present.

In the 1980s, Prince wrote one of the Bangles' biggest hits, "Manic Monday." Now, The Prince Estate has released the demo version of the track as part of the artist's posthumous album, Originals.

The network tried out different versions of "Heavy Action," a jingle synonymous with the Monday night spot, for a few years. But it then brought Williams Jr.'s song back in 2017 and kept it as the ...