"Walk Like an Egyptian" is a number-one hit from the album Different Light by The Bangles in 1986.
The song is in chromatic-minor with a tonic major chord.
This song was banned by the BBC during the Gulf War because it mentioned the Middle East.
Read more about Walk Like An Egyptian: Origin, Chart Performances, Music Video, 1990 Re-release, Clear Channel Memorandum, Track Listings
Famous quotes containing the words walk like, walk and/or egyptian:
“‘Come, walk like this,’ the dancer said,
‘Stick you your toes—stick in your head,
Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread—
Your fingers thus extend;
The attitude’s considered quaint,’”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“He will to his Egyptian dish again.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)