Cyndi Lauper Site

The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough, the theme from Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster, The Goonies, is more than just another hit record for Cyndi Lauper-it’s the story of her life. It a shy, skinny kid from Queens can turn herself into one of pop culture’s singular performance identities, there’s hope for goonies everywhere. The song, co-written […]

It may not have the aura of Oscar or the grandeur of Grammy. In fact, the new statuette being handed out this week at the Ist Annual MTV Video Music Awards doesn’t even have a nickname yet (Gramscar? Scrammy?). But this much is known about the new prize from cable TV’s largest rock music channel: […]

It’s easy to pick out a real Cyndi Lauper fan. She’s the screaming preteen girl wearing smeared purple lipstick, and a bright pink ribbon in her electric orange and green hair. If she happens to be humming a tune, it’s probably one of Miss Lauper’s teeny-bopper hits, Time After Time, She’s So Unusual, or Girls […]

It may not have the aura of Oscar or the grandeur of Grammy. In fact, the new statuette being handed out this week at the Ist Annual MTV Video Music Awards doesn’t even have a nickname yet (Gramscar? Scrammy?). But this much is known about the new prize from cable TV’s largest rock music channel: […]

They all laughed when Cyndi Lauper said she’d be a star. But she knew what she wanted and she got it. Look who’s laughing now. EVEN AMID THE EXHILARATING VISUALS OF THE IMPERIAL DRAGON, A Manhattan restaurant squirreled away in the city’s midtown music-biz district, Cyndi Lauper is a riveting presence. The décor here, definitive […]

Brooklyn-bred Cyndi Lauper sounds like no other singer on the current scene. She may be the finest female junk-rock vocalist since the heyday of the great Maureen Gray, more than twenty years ago. Like Gray, a black Philadelphian who had a string of local hits in the Sixties, Lauper has a wild and wonderful skyrocket […]