Apparently, Susannah Hoffs of the Bangles sang the lead vocal of “Eternal Flame” in the nude after their producer Davitt Sigerson told her that Olivia Newton-John always recorded like that. Sigerson was pranking her, although Hoffs did surround herself with screens before undressing. There is no evidence to suggest that Olivia Newton-John ever recorded in her birthday suit! Hoffs said this of the experience “I imagined it would feel like skinny dipping—vulnerable yet freeing – and I decided to try it. Nobody could see me; there was a baffle in front of me and it was dark.” She liked the experience enough to sing all her vocals on the album, ‘Everything’, that way. Clearly, the naked recording process helped though, because “Eternal Flame” went to number one in nine countries!
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