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“We tried it every which way - rocking it out, doing it ska - but she still hated it”: How a reshaped guitar riff ended up saving Cyndi Lauper’s breakthrough hit

Cyndi Lauper.

Pity the lot of the session player. For their - often crucial - contributions to songs invariably go unnoticed. And unrewarded.

Take Eric Bazilian for example. The ex-Hooters guitarist has played with Mick Jagger and Joan Osborne – indeed, he wrote Osborne’s 1995 hit One Of Us. But his greatest contribution to pop music might be something he added to Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 breakthrough hit.

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