These Boots Are Made for Listening by Peter Filichia

In October 1983, when Cyndi Lauper's pop career started taking off in earnest, the current Broadway musicals had music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats), Jerry Herman (La Cage aux Folles), Maury Yeston (Nine) and George Gershwin (My One and Only). No one would have ever predicted that Lauper -- whose then-hit "She Bop" concerned masturbation and thus made the Parents Music Resource Center's "Filthy Fifteen" list -- would…

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