The difference between doing a world tour when you’re 31 and when you’re 71, says Cyndi Lauper, is five hours a day. Back when she was in her thirties her voice could effortlessly scale four octaves and blow the socks off people in the back row: “I was a killer singer. Drop a dime and I would sing,” she says in her girlish voice with its almost parodic Brooklyn accent (“killah singah”). But now in her seventies and midway through her global farewell tour, which arrives in the UK on Saturday, she has to spend five hours every day doing vocal and physical exercises, “just so that I can go out and sing like a fire-breathing dragon”.
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