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Cyndi Lauper

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Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)****

Review by 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 ...

Cyndi Lauper, the Three O'Clock: Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 February 1984

CYNDI LAUPER: DAFFY BUT ENDEARING SPECIAL DATE ...

Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)

Review by J.D. Considine, Record, March 1984

IF GOOD SINGING were its own reward, then She's So Unusual, the solo debut of former Blue Angel singer Cyndi Lauper, would be one hell ...

Cyndi Lauper has a Great Personality

Profile and Interview by Laura Fissinger, Creem, May 1984

NEW YORK — We've only got a little time here, so let's go right for the trouble spot: After a recent Lauper set in New ...

Cyndi Lauper: Would You Wrestle With This Girl?

Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 21 July 1984

Fun loving Cyndi Lauper pins Paul "Giant Hack" Sexton to the ropes — time after time ...

Cyndi Lauper Bops Through The Night

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, January 1985

PADDING SLOWLY through Burbank Airport, clutching a grey handbag and a Walkman cassette player, Lauper, at first glance, resembles a simple immigrant from "the old ...

USA For Africa: We Are The World (Columbia)

Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1985

OUCHLESS BAND-AID ...

Cyndi Lauper Cooks!

Profile and Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Graffiti, 1986

Noted scribe contemplates Cyndi’s spaghetti sauce, Niagara Falls pillows, crocodile sofa, hair, voice, aura, etc. Meanwhile, Lorenzo St. Dubois ponders Cyndi’s past… ...

Cyndi Lauper: The Bop Don't Stop

Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 1 November 1986

THE BIG BOPPER was a huge slobbering lech, bursting out of his suit drooling ungodly lust. Squeezed into a phone booth he called Chantilly Lace, ...

Cyndi Lauper: True Colors

Review by John Mendelsohn, Creem, January 1987

SHE'S FEATURED her mom in most of her videos, and had her along to all the big gala awards shows too, so you get the ...

Cyndi Lauper: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1987

HEARTFELT MOMENTS OF LIVE LAUPER ...

Cyndi Lauper: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 26 February 1987

FUNNY GIRL! Cyndi Lauper is equal parts Shirley Temple, Rickie Lee Jones and Bugs Bunny, a fruitcake in a musical doll's house wearing cartoon clothes, ...

Cyndi Lauper: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 7 March 1987

SAFE SEX WITH CYNDI ...

Cyndi Lauper: Doing That Primitive Thing

Interview by 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 ...

Cyndi Lauper

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001

b. Cynthia Anne Stephanie Lauper, 22 June 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA ...

Cyndi Lauper's Still Unusual

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, September 2002

ON THE SURFACE, Cyndi Lauper hasn't changed that much since 1983, when her debut album catapulted her to fame next to other then-newbies Madonna and ...

Cyndi Lauper: Still Good Enough

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2008

It might be hard for her to break away from the wackily tressed imagery that accompanied her 1983 global smash 'Girls Just Want to Have ...

see also Blue Angel

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