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And given Wolff’s love for professional wrestling and the fact that exposure to one another’s audiences were mutually beneficial, Lauper continued to play a role in the WWE, with Albano mocking her every chance he could get. It was a fun moment in the show that blew up in the public eye thanks to Entertainment Tonight’s coverage of the event as a real-life dust-up. I didn’t realize that she had a bottle of perfume in there - she almost killed me,” Albano later recalled. “She whacked me, hit me over the head with her pocketbook. In June 1984, she served as a guest on the "Piper’s Pit's" in-show segment during a telecast of Championship Wrestling, where she discussed her rise to fame with the kilted host, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.Ī new storyline was born: When Lauper told Piper that she loved Albano but he wasn’t responsible for her success, the wrestler dropped in on the set and began taking credit for making her a superstar and claimed to have written the words for her hit song “Time After Time.” Then, he started insisting that women “ought to be barefoot in the kitchen” and kept cranking it up from there until Lauper flipped a table and began beating him over the head with her pocketbook. Lauper showed off some of her own wrestling prowess in the video, gracefully hammer locking her “dad” against the wall during one of his lectures, and soon, she was actually appearing in a WWE broadcast. Regardless of how it happened, Albano’s appearance was far from a one-and-done cameo. Lauper recalled it a bit differently in her memoir, writing that “originally they wanted the wrestler Gorgeous George to be in the video, but I said, 'No, Captain Lou's the one.' I had kept in touch with him and had his number, so Dave called him and he signed up immediately." When I learned that Ken knew Vince McMahon, I said to do whatever you’ve got to do to give us Captain Lou for this video.” At this point, I didn’t know anybody in wrestling. “The producer of the video was a guy named Ken Walz, he had a relationship with Vince McMahon. “It would be an amazing thing - it would be funny, it would be camp, it would totally fit into the comedy of the video,” Wolff later remembered. He left an impression and when it was time to cast the “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” video, Lauper and her then-boyfriend/manager, Dave Wolff, an avid wrestling fan since childhood, knew they wanted Albano involved. It began when Lauper met Albano on a planeĪlbano’s involvement in the video was the result of fate and fanaticism, beginning with him meeting Lauper on a plane back from Puerto Rico prior to her breakout success. Lou Albano and Cyndi Lauper attend the Ugliest Bartender Contest Benefiting the Multiple Sclerosis Society on December 11, 1984, at Studio 54 in New York City Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Her burly, bearded father was played by Captain Lou Albano, a veteran WWE star who had become a “manager” of other wrestlers at that point. The crossover officially began in 1983 with pop star Cyndi Lauper’s music video for her hit song “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” Playing a, well, teenage girl who just wanted to have fun, Lauper galavanted across New York City in between scenes of her parents lecturing her about her caution-to-the-wind lifestyle. And while they weren’t officially linked in any way during their first few years - MTV launched in 1981, the modern incarnation of the WWE in 1982 - it wasn’t long until they intertwined and propelled one another to the next level.
Of the many new phenomena that emerged in that time, two acronyms, in particular, made a splash for their loud appeal to a new generation of young people: MTV and the WWE.īoth music videos and modern American professional wrestling had existed for decades, but MTV and the WWE revolutionized both of them, taking them to the masses with a colorful flourish on cable TV. The early-to-mid-1980s gave birth to the rise of a new youth culture, an unabashed day-glo celebration that followed the doldrums of the late 1970s.
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