Eternal Flame is a soft rock power ballad by The Bangles from their 1988 album Everything. It was written by Susanna Hoffs with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, produced by Davitt Sigerson, and released as a single on January 23, 1989. The song uses an AABA structure and features a music-box-like arrangement by Sigerson and John Philip Shenale, with the title’s flame metaphor inspired by Elvis Presley’s Graceland shrine and a Palm Springs synagogue. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one in nine countries, helping The Bangles become one of the first all-female groups to have multiple US chart-toppers. The tune has been covered by artists such as Human Nature (1999), Atomic Kitten (2001), and Tomoya Nagase with 3T (1997).
