Talk:Susanna Hoffs

message: IMDB lists her middle name as "Lee". I haven't been able to verify this, but I still added it.  "-- Madman332 18:56, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle name

message: According to IMDB, NNDB, Allmusic.com, Susanna is born in 1959. However, various other sites lists her as born in 1957. A google search for "Susanna Hoffs 1959" returns the same amount of hits as "Susanna Hoffs 1957". www.anybirthday.com doesn't list her at all. I don't know where to get this verified, but I'm going with 1959 for now because  at least Allmusic.com and IMDB has some credibility.  "-- Madman332 18:56, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Ancestry.com birth records, she was born in 1959. Mad Jack 07:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth year

message: Describing Susanna Hoffs as a "rhythm guitarist" is inaccurate. Despite playing mostly rhythm guitar she also played a few (simple) lead parts while with The Bangles. (The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia, DVD, 2007)
The term "rhythm guitarist" applied as an adjective to any person should be avoided. The term describes a "role" a guitarist might fill at any given time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_guitar)
Rico402 (talk) 08:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I disagree. Many guitarists are only comfortable in a rhythm role, even if they are able to play as a lead. However, many lead guitarists are unsuited to playing a rhythm part. It is a similar distinction to first and second violins, i.e. same instrument, different technique.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.183.201 (talk) 20:04, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoffs a "rhythm guitarist" inaccurate 

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 20:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: The article needs more sources and has been tagged accordingly for quite some time. SunCrow (talk) 02:09, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I suggest removing "Height".  Would any article about a MALE rock/pop musician includes his body dimensions?  (Plus, we ALL get shorter as we, especially in our inter-vetebrae discs, age.) Acwilson9 (talk) 20:14, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info box 

message: *AllMusic has "Hoffs was born in Newport Beach, California"
*LA Times has "Newport Beach-native Susanna Hoffs"
*Encyclopedia of Popular Music.. has "Susanna Hoffs (b. 17 January 1959, Newport Beach, California"
:Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:49, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: We are not supposed to use the California Birth Index for the personal information of living people, but it says she was born in Los Angeles County. Newport Beach is in Orange County. Perhaps her parents moved to Newport Beach when she was an infant. Binksternet (talk) 23:15, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the 2004 book Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2006 says she was born in Los Angeles, the Peterson sisters also born in L.A., and bass player Annette born in Van Nuys. Of course I can see all the sources saying Newport Beach, so we have contradiction in the literature. Binksternet (talk) 23:27, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll look for some more sources. Whichever loation is used in the article text, seems like we should add a footnote about the conflicting info in sources. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:33, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

text: I'm thinking Newport Beach is fiction, and that Hoffs grew up solely in Los Angeles. After college she returned to her parents house and answered an ad for bandmates. Vicki Peterson showed up and they rehearsed in the Hoffs parents' garage which had been converted into Susanna's bachelor pad. That garage is described as being in Brentwood which is an upscale L.A. neighborhood a little bit east of the beach city Santa Monica. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Hoffs and David Roback both grew up in Brentwood and went to the same schools. They both went to Palisades High School. There's nothing in the literature about her growing up in Newport Beach, going to schools there, having childhood friends there. There's nothing about a Newport Beach hospital being the place of birth. Binksternet (talk) 03:33, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of birth