Although Cyndi Lauper is a very talented songwriter, True Colors was actually written by hit-makers Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. It was both the title track and the first single released from Lauper's second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not … [Read more...]
Happy Times
A little corner of heaven in 1986. Carmelita's Reception House atop Disco Donut, 14th Street and Third Avenue, New York City. (via vanishingnewyork) … [Read more...]
Flashback 1986
That's Tony Hawk, at left, then 18, in a scene from Bones Brigade. The just-released totally awesome documentary by surfer and skater Stacy Peralta chronicles skateboarding from its infancy in California in the 1980s to today, with scads of thrilling archival footage (it seems … [Read more...]
Snap!back: Literature, Art, Music
William Burroughs, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Debbie Harry, New York City, Christmas, 1986. (Photo: Victor Bockris … [Read more...]
A Christmas Minute with Grace Jones and Pee-wee Herman
It was a momentous moment in 1986 when the Jamaican diva appeared on Pee-wee's Playhouse and sang "The Little Drummer Boy" in dramatic headpiece and plastic boobs. … [Read more...]
