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This week in 1985, the Cyndi Lauper LP “She’s So Unusual” re-entered the UK Albums Chart at #98 (January 5)
In 1978, Lauper formed the band Blue Angel, who signed a recording contract with Polydor Records; however, their debut album, “Blue Angel”, was a commercial failure.
The band parted ways after firing their manager, who sued Lauper for $80,000 and forced her into bankruptcy.
Lauper went on to work in retail stores, waitressing, and also singing solo in many New York night clubs, and it was here she caught the eye of David Wolff.
He became her manager and subsequently got her signed to Portrait Records, (a subsidiary of Epic Records), who went on to release this, her debut solo LP, in 1983.
Lauper co-wrote four songs on “She's So Unusual”, including the hits "Time After Time" and "She Bop".
While recording her hit single “Girls Just Want to Have Fun", Lauper found the original lyrics to be misogynistic, so she rewrote the song as an anthem for young women.
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" became a worldwide hit, and her first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Time After Time" became her first #1 hit on the chart and experienced similar success worldwide, while the next two singles “She Bop" and "All Through the Night" also peaked in the US Top 5.
This made Cyndi Lauper the first female singer to have four Top 5 singles on the Hot 100 from one album.
“She's So Unusual” is still her best-selling album to date and one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s.
It went on to peak at #4 on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed in the chart's Top 40 for a massive 65 weeks.
The album also went to #1 in Canada, #3 in Australia and New Zealand, #4 in Norway, #5 in Japan and Austria, #6 in South Africa, #8 in Switzerland, #14 in Italy, #16 in the UK, and #19 in the Netherlands.
“She’s So Unusual” helped Cyndi win Best New Artist at the 1985 Grammy Awards, and also received nominations for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), and Song of the Year (for "Time After Time").
“She's So Unusual” was ranked at #184 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2020.
In 2019, the Library of Congress selected “She's So Unusual” for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The iconic front cover of “She's So Unusual” was photographed on Henderson Walk in Coney Island, New York, in front of a closed-down wax museum, in the summer of 1983 by the legendary Annie Leibovitz, with Lauper wearing a vintage red prom-style dress that she purchased at the vintage clothing shop where she used to work, Screaming Mimi's.
She is also seen holding a bouquet of flowers which were purchased from a vendor on the boardwalk at the time of the shoot.
The cover won Janet Perr the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 1985.
The video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", featuring professional wrestler Captain Lou Albano, won the inaugural award for Best Female Video at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards, and made Lauper an MTV staple.
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Boracay comes alive as drums beat, colors move, and the island celebrates as one.
Sometimes progress is quiet.
Small daily actions, consistent effort, and patience usually matter more than big announcements.
Keep moving forward, even when no one is watching.
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"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams.
They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”
—Neil Gaiman
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Known as "Dracula's Bed" - This is the bed in the King’s bedroom in the medieval Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania.
Bran Castle is often associated with the fictional vampire Count Dracula.
The Romanian castle resembles the Castle of Dracula, as described in Bram Stoker's novel.
But Stoker, the Irish writer, is not known to have ever visited Transylvania.
Maybe @Biro Bela has been there? 😉
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