Sternberg finished a demo version by January 1984 with singer Marti Jones, featuring percussion with kitchen implements. Later, Sternberg looked back in the notebook, and composing the melody with a guitar, he put together an up-tempo song with lyrics about Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Nile River, crocodiles, desert sand, bazaars and hookah pipes and then segued into modern scenes of blond waitresses, school kids and police officers. He wrote the words "Walk like an Egyptian" in a notebook. When the vessel hit choppy water, passengers stepped carefully and moved their arms awkwardly while struggling to maintain their balance, and that reminded Sternberg of the depiction of human figures in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings. Liam Sternberg said he was inspired to create the song while on a ferry crossing the English Channel.
It was the band's first number one single, being certified gold by the RIAA, and became Billboard's number-one song of 1987. It was released in 1986 as the third single from the album Different Light.
" Walk Like an Egyptian" is a song recorded by the American band the Bangles.
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