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Cyndi Lauper

July 2024

  • Chris Martin of Coldplay on the Pyramid stage on Saturday night

    The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

    From K-poppers Seventeen to performance artist Marina Abramović, via Cyndi Lauper and Little Simz, it was one of the most diverse editions yet. But the real fireworks came with a band who have taken things to another level

June 2024

  • Fans watching the Last Dinner Party at Other stage.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay

    Day two for the photography team at Glastonbury brought the heat, the Last Dinner Party, a flypast, and an astonishing array of anthems from Chris Martin and co
  • Cyndi Lauper on stage at Glastonbury festival.

    Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury review – nostalgic Pyramid stage crowd just wants to have fun

    The pop balladeer brings 1980s hits Time After Time and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun to a sweltering crowd
  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’: Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

    She’s the subject of a new documentary, has just announced her farewell tour, and is about to play Glastonbury. The singer and songwriter discusses Trump, resilience and why she hated being pitted against Madonna

May 2024

  • Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Hit Man to Bones and All: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Richard Linklater’s romantic comedy sizzles with chemistry between Adria Arjona and Glen Powell, while Luca Guadagnino explores the cannibalistic impulses in the gripping horror with Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell

March 2024

  • Pyramid schemes … Dua Lipa, Coldplay's Chris Martin and SZA.

    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival

    Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced

January 2024

  • ‘I feel like it’s so amazing to see all these supernatural people just being so natural’

    ‘A sense of Ocean’s 11’: the fascinating true story behind We Are the World

    In the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, A-listers from Stevie Wonder to Michael Jackson come together for the recording of an iconic song

March 2023

  • Rod Stewart performing in Melbourne earlier this month.

    Rod Stewart cancels A Day on the Green in Australia due to ‘viral infection’

    British singer was billed to perform on Saturday alongside Cyndi Lauper and New Zealand singer John Stevens

January 2023

  • Dolly Parton, Gloria Estefan, Belinda Carlisle

    Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Belinda Carlisle and Debbie Harry to collaborate on new song

    Pop legends join forces for Diane Warren-penned track Gonna Be You for forthcoming comedy 80 for Brady

May 2022

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Cyndi Lauper: girls just wanna have fun – and be given their due

    Rebecca Nicholson
    A new wave of documentaries about female musicians highlights their accomplishments in an industry that too often failed them

October 2021

  • Close-up of a woman's body

    Book of the day
    Skin by Sergio del Molino review – a meditation on psoriasis and the psyche

    A sufferer writes about how the skin condition affected figures as diverse as Joseph Stalin, John Updike and Cyndi Lauper

October 2018

  • Flight of the Conchords; Glasvegas; Madonna

    Daddy cool? Why pop is obsessed with bad dads

    To mark 10 years since Glasvegas released Daddy’s Gone, we explore the failing fathers of pop, from Flight of the Conchords to Madonna

June 2018

  • Weird genius, impeccable songwriting ... David Byrne in 2018.

    Ranked
    David Byrne – (almost) all of his albums ranked!

    As the experimental iconoclast embarks on a UK tour for new album American Utopia, we rate his studio LPs, from Remain in Light to The Last Emperor

May 2018

  • Cyndi Lauper at the 2018 Grammy awards.

    Culture webchats
    Cyndi Lauper: 'Fame is tricky. There's no book on dealing with it'

    With 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper’s musical Kinky Boots continuing its run in London’s West End, she talks about dangerous videos, breathing deep and Miles Davis

April 2018

  • ‘I met her in a hotel lobby’… Prince at his most lascivious in 1985.

    May contain masturbation: the woman weaponising pop's Filthy 15

  • John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

    From Travolta’s twist to strobe-lit raves: 10 of the best dancefloor scenes in cinema

September 2017

  • Snapshot ... Susan England’s father as a Marine, aged 21

    Family life
    Family life: My dad in the US Marines; Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun; jam sandwiches

    Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes

October 2016

  • Callum Francis and Toby Francis in Kinky Boots

    Kinky Boots review – Cyndi Lauper's frockbuster musical a head-over-heels delight

    The Australian production of the musical that has conquered Broadway and the West End is polished, infectious and a joy

July 2016

  • Cyndi Lauper on the UK leg of her 2016 tour.

    Cyndi Lauper review – a comforting tonic in difficult times

    The pop raconteur rides a stick pony around the stage, offers welcome ‘Cyndi-isms’ and embraces country music with curiosity, camp and utter sincerity

April 2016

  • Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - April 18, 2016<br>NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Cyndi Lauper visits at SiriusXM Studio on April 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

    Cyndi Lauper: 'In North Carolina I insisted on a transgender bathroom'

    Having conquered pop and musical theatre, Lauper went to Nashville to record a country album, Detour. She talked about working with legends and why she chose to perform in a state with anti-LGBT laws
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