Chart success dries up

Following the runaway success of her debut album 'She's So Unreal', which contained the smash hit single 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun', and then her follow-up 'True Colors', Cyndi was on top of the world.

But the release of her third LP 'A Night to Remember' in 1989 was met with mixed to poor reviews and disappointed in the charts.

A short time later after the album's release, she split with her boyfriend and manager David Wolff, and found herself living alone in a New York hotel feeling emotionally drained.

She wrote in her book 'Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir': "I had come so far but felt like I had failed. I would go to the studio, and then sit in my dark room and drink vodka. I had to spend most of my time alone. I was grieving. I thought the sadness would never go away."