‘Back to say goodbye’: Cyndi Lauper treats fans to the classics in farewell tour
Cyndi Lauper has been joined by Tones and I on stage in Melbourne as she belted out her classic hits and took fans on a trip down memory lane in her farewell tour.
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Melbourne singer-songwriter Tones And I performed a surprise duet with US pop superstar Cyndi Lauper at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday night.
Tones, who had a global smash with Dance Monkey, appeared on stage as Lauper’s singing partner on her 1983 hit, Time After Time.
Lauper’s show, a retrospective of hits, classics and songs that shaped her, is part of a farewell tour of the world.
“I was bigger (in Australia) before I was big in the US,” Lauper told a packed house on Wednesday.
“I’ve come back to say goodbye. It is such a joy to come to your city.”
The two-hour concert was also big on stories about family, home, fame, failure, influences, civil liberties, and much more.
“It’s not a bang-bang show, sorry,” Lauper told a man, who started yelling over her quiet ruminations on life.
“It’s all about where I’m from, and the people. That’s important; the humanity.”
She played the icons – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, True Colours, Money Changes Everything and Time After Time. But there were also nods to lesser known cuts she released after the hits.
“I wanted to tell my story with the rhythm of my own speech,” she said.
Of course, there were costume changes, wig swaps and style switches by a true trailblazer.
But Lauper added: “I don’t just like it to be glamorous, I also want it to be art.”
Lauper’s voice is still commanding, and she flexed its power early in the show with I Drove All Night, and later in I’m Gonna Be Strong.
Her strongest memory of her first ever visit to Melbourne was classic. She remembered the old ritual of aircraft passengers being sprayed by disinfectant after landing.
Lauper waited for the Glen 20 treatment when she arrived at Tullamarine this week.
“Nobody sprayed me,” she said, slightly dejected. “I liked that spray.”
Bless.
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