Cyndi Lauper: Doing That Primitive Thing
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, April 1987
SHE WOULD HAVE been born in the back of a New York taxi if they hadn't crossed her mother's legs and stuffed her back in 'til the hospital. That was 33 years ago; Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper has made a point of never being early for anything since!
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