Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)****
Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, 14 January 1984
CYNDI LAUPER's old group Blue Angel made an album for Polydor Records in 1980. Given half a chance it could've put them in the Fleetwood Mac sales stakes; however the disc did doodley and they were promptly dropped and filed under obsolete. Between then and now, I often pondered what had happened to 'those pipes' in particular.
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