The Bangles rose suddenly to elite status in the 80s. Their final Top 40 hit, "Be With You", saw that streak end rather abruptly.

The study follows last summer's report that vending machine jewelry marketed toward young children had high lead levels. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

The track featured three of the four Bangles singing lead, but it was Hoffs’s appearance in the video for the song — her brown eyes darting seductively in close-up — that set teenage hearts ...