I remember seeing Cyndi Lauper for the first time on ‘Top Of The Pops’ when ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ was released and I though she was definitely going places! I have a number of her records in my collection but it is ‘Time After Time’ that I love the most.
With the rise of the ‘pop video’ in the 1980s and the start of MTV where suddenly everyone was making great videos to be shown round the clock on the music channels it suddenly became harder to divorce a song from its promo video and enjoy it without being reminded of the images. This is one such song as every time I hear it I am also reminded of the wonderful video that goes with it where poor old Cyndi is living in a Trailer Park having adopted a fierce red hair colour and radical new style but feels compelled to get the train to somewhere more exciting! I also have a version of this song by ‘Everything But The Girl’, which was on their ‘Covers EP’ and is also a wonderful version however the original is Cyndi’s and it will remain forever one of my most favourite songs.
Now Listen to the song and watch that video…
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