By now, it's a given that Cyndi Lauper was a 1980s pop queen. In that decade, her hits like "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time" and "Money Changes Everything" were inescapable.
But every monarch has to have a coronation — and in Lauper’s case, it came courtesy of none other than Laurie Anderson and the Kinks' Ray Davies.
After the pair presented Lauper with her first GRAMMY, for Best New Artist, at the 27th GRAMMY Awards in 1985, the flame-haired star — flanked by the towering Hulk Hogan — accepted her golden gramophone with an irresistible smile and wave.
In a special episode of GRAMMY Rewind presented by Bulova, the Official Timepiece Partner of the Recording Academy, watch Lauper thank a litany of friends and collaborators — "I should have wrote the list!" she laments — as she initiates her decades-long GRAMMY reign.
Check out the exuberant video above and watch more episodes of the GRAMMY Rewind special edition series presented by Bulova ahead of the 2022 GRAMMYs show.