Cyndi Lauper’s debut single Girls Just Want To Have Fun did well to reach second place in the Billboard Hot 100 – stopped short by the Van Halen hit Jump. But it was the release of her second track Time After Time that produced her first No.1.
As fate would have it, the New York-born singer came up with the song’s title while flicking through the programme listings in the American magazine TV Guide. Time After Time was the name of a 1979 science fiction movie with Malcolm McDowell portraying British author H.G. Wells on a time-travelling quest to catch Jack The Ripper.
