From BBC Radio 4: Cyndi Lauper is Lauren Laverne’s guest on Desert Island Discs. Here, after talking about being schlepped around to museums by her mother, Lauper is describing the Brooklyn neighborhood of her early childhood.
“It was very magical. It was a little like Shakespeare, ’cause she kept taking us to the Shakespeare festivals, because they were free.”I love it. The episode is a great one, from Claude Debussy to Big Mama Thornton.
“And you were seeing Romeo and Juliet on the fire escapes of your Brooklyn neighborhoods.”
“It wasn’t like Romeo and Juliet. They were very blue-collar. There were women pulling wash in. The sheets looked like sails.”
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