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20-471: Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album earned Lauper several awards and accolades, including two nominations at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards . True Colors peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. The album is Lauper's second best-selling release with around seven million copies worldwide. By the end of 1985, Lauper was established as one of

40-471: A break of three months, which saw Anthem cease publication of sister magazine "Long Live Vinyl", Classic Pop returned as a bi-monthly publication with occasional special editions (such as "Synthpop Volume 2: Electric Dreams"). Classic Pop has also published special one-off editions commemorating the lives of David Bowie , Prince and Michael Jackson , as well as the careers of ABBA , Madonna , Paul McCartney , George Michael and Elton John . One of

60-701: A recent concert. These have included Claudia Brücken 's This Happened at Bush Hall , London (Issue 1, pages 106–107), The Christians' European Tour (Issue 2, pages 128–129), Thomas Dolby 's Time Capsule Tour of the US (Issue 1, pages 104–105), Nick Heyward at Let's Rock the Moor! (Issue 4, pages 112–113), Let's Rock Festival (Issue 11, pages 90–91), Madness at The Queens' Diamond Jubilee Celebration Concert (Issue 1, pages 108–109), Swing Out Sister at Billboard Live, Tokyo (Issue 3, pages 128–129), Then Jerico 's Big Area Tour (Issue 2, pages 126–127). The earlier issues of

80-736: A touch of maturity, makes this opus an accomplished album. Her cover of “What’s Going On,” by Marvin Gaye, and the hits “True Colors” and “Change Of Heart,” propels the album and confirms the influence of the artist.” In the United States, True Colors has been certified double platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 . It topped the Australian chart for four weeks and, in Japan, outsold She's So Unusual , although that

100-592: The Chicago Tribune , Lynn Van Matre praised it as a "winning effort" with "plenty of fun", while Ian Cranna singled out Lauper's "outstanding, marvellous voice" for praise in Q , stating that "she breathes life into the songs, and slowly but surely the strengths of this LP begin to reveal themselves through the unorthodox structures and treatments." Jimmy Guterman from Rolling Stone wrote that Lauper "sounds more comfortable at any given moment on True Colors than she did on all of She's So Unusual ", and that

120-610: The "Eighties, Electronic, Eclectic" magazine. Regular features include artist interviews, career overviews, and analyses of classic albums. Its occasional series, Five Decades of... interviews and appraises the work of a musician or group who may have been overlooked by other media, but who are nonetheless influential and active over the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Key Five Decades of... features have included Vince Clarke (Issue 10, pages 54–61), Duran Duran (Issue 1, pages 52–59), Simple Minds (Issue 2, pages 58–65) and Spandau Ballet (Issue 3, pages 50–57). The magazine

140-427: The "highly reverberated and artificial sounding drums and keyboards" which "were really popular at the time". He concluded that despite those problems "there really wasn't that much music recorded by this artist during her most popular period, so fans will no doubt want to own it all." Writing for Classic Pop , John Earls said that although the album's "unusually subdued" cover songs "suggested severe writers' block",

160-407: The album "seems to indicate her extreme ease in her new surroundings". Noting that "she's found a new sense of peace—or at least she's heading in that direction", Guterman also opined, however, that "her uneasiness gave her early work much of its spark; what places True Colors a notch below her debut is that Cyndi Lauper just isn't that unusual anymore." The Village Voice ' s Robert Christgau

180-593: The album, too—not to be so hard on yourself." The title song , written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly , has been covered by many other artists, and was used as the theme song for the 1988 Summer Olympics , the 2003 Rugby World Cup and for Kodak cameras and film. In 2010, the song was also featured on the soundtrack of Sex and the City 2 . True Colors was reissued in a Japanese exclusive limited edition box set 11-track digitally remastered CD album. True Colors received favorable reviews from music critics . In

200-595: The best-selling artists in the world. Her first studio album She's So Unusual (1983) was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and received a diamond certification in Canada for sales in excess of one million copies, making her the first singer to achieve such a feat at that time. According to Billboard magazine, the music industry was eyeing the singer's next steps anxious to know if she could maintain

220-1978: The magazine's lead sections, every issue has profiled one or more musicians with an interview and induction into Classic Pop's "Godmothers/Godfathers of Pop". The following artists have been bestowed the title: Marc Almond (Issue 16, page 18–19), Adam Ant (Issue 19, page 17), Wally Badarou (Issue 12, page 19), Tom Bailey (Issue 4, page 19), Andy Bell (Issue 13, page 17), Blancmange (Issue 1, page 21), Thomas Dolby (Issue 23, page 33), Wolfgang Flür (Issue 20, page 17), Martin Fry (Issue 9, page 17), Glenn Gregory (Issue 3, page 19), Clare Grogan (Issue 12, page 17), Tony Hadley (Issue 6, page 19), Daryl Hall (Issue 16, page 21), Morten Harket (Issue 3, page 17), Nick Heyward (Issue 19, page 19), Peter Hook (Issue 5, page 19), Trevor Horn (Issue 10, page 17), Steve Jansen (Issue 23, page 35), Matt Johnson (Issue 18, page 17), Howard Jones (Issue 2, page 19), Gary Kemp (Issue 1, page 19), Nik Kershaw (Issue 1, page 23 and Issue 21, page 33), Mark King (Issue 11, page 17), Annie Lennox (Issue 4, page 17), Ron Mael (Issue 10, page 19), Phil Manzanera (Issue 22, page 19), Dieter Meier (Issue 7, page 19), Daniel Miller (Issue 20, page 19), Kylie Minogue (Issue 2, page 17), Giorgio Moroder (Issue 6, page 17), Yoko Ono (Issue 7, page 17), Andy Partridge (Issue 15, page 17), Kate Pierson (Issue 21, page 31), Nick Rhodes (Issue 5, page 17), Nile Rodgers (Issue 8, page 17), Shaun Ryder (Issue 18, page 19), Cathal Smyth (Issue 22, page 17), Lisa Stansfield (Issue 8, page 19), Susan Ann Sulley (Issue 15, page 19), Bernard Sumner (Issue 17, page 17), John Taylor (Issue 9, page 19), Tracey Thorn (Issue 17, page 19), Toyah (Issue 13, page 19), Midge Ure (Issue 11, page 19), Martyn Ware (Issue 14, page 17), Pete Waterman (Issue 14, page 19). Each edition of Classic Pop devotes five pages to an in-depth examination of

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240-408: The making of, and influence of, a pop album. Since May 2014, the singles reviews section has been written by a guest contributor. These have included: Every issue of the magazine has included a column – most often written by Ian Peel or John Earls – examining and assessing a single or album that in their option should be considered classic or influential with hindsight, but which has fallen off

260-717: The previous year. Paul Simon won Album of the Year for Graceland , and Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager won Song of the Year for " That's What Friends Are For ". Record of the Year Album of the Year Song of the Year Best New Artist Classic Pop (magazine) Classic Pop is a bi-monthly British music magazine. It launched in October 2012, branded as

280-456: The radar of the media or public-at-large. The following releases have been covered in this section: Classic Pop runs an occasional series of in-depth appraisals of record labels. These have included: For five issues in 2014, Classic Pop ran a series of interviews with songwriters describing the creative process behind some of their work. The songs examined in this series were: A pictorial based on behind-the-scenes photos and commentary from

300-435: The remaining tracks "had no such worries, whether in the peerless title track or the doo-wop delight in ' Change of Heart '." Le Guide du CD/FNAC of France gave the album between 4-5 Stars, "“The second album by the craziest redhead of American Pop, True Colors follows the huge hit album, She’s So Unusual. Inhabiting the youthful energy that characterizes her, Cyndi Lauper reuses the recipe for success of her first album, with

320-476: The songs on the album. "The second album says, 'Have the courage of your convictions and love yourself a little'," Lauper told The New York Times in 1986, adding that she wanted its songs "to say, 'Love yourself', because we really are taught not to. When babies are born, they're just nuts about everything about themselves. Then, as we get older, we're taught that, oooh, that's disgusting, and that if we like ourselves then that's considered conceit. That's part of

340-462: The success of her debut. In her autobiography, the singer says that she initially planned for Rick Chertoff , who produced She's So Unusual , to produce what would become her second album; however, the experience with him was problematic and she changed her mind, and she likewise refused to produce the album with Rob Hyman since he was affiliated with Chertoff. True Colors was then produced by her and Lennie Petze, with Lauper also composing most of

360-464: Was devised and founded by Ian Peel , who was also editor for the first 19 issues. Rik Flynn stepped in as editor until Issue 23 followed by current editor Steve Harnell. Ian Peel remains involved as Founder & Editor-at-Large. Launched by Anthem Publishing, Classic Pop had become a monthly magazine by the time Anthem temporarily paused publication of the title in April 2020 due to Covid-19. After

380-493: Was less impressed, commenting that the first side of the LP consists of "cheap sentiment" and is "disheartening" and that "the second isn't much more than a relief", before concluding, "girls just want to have money—and no fun changes everything." In a retrospective assessment for AllMusic , Eugene Chadbourne wrote that while True Colors is "ambitious" and "some of the stretches really pay off", some of its aspects "date badly", like

400-969: Was not the case in most countries. The album produced the singles "True Colors" (No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 ), "Change of Heart" (No. 3), "What's Going On" (No. 12), and "Boy Blue" (No. 71). Each single had a music video although the video for "Boy Blue" was just a live performance from her Zenith concert in Paris. According to Lauper's official website, the album was certified 4× Platinum in Australia and Platinum in Italy. The album sold around 7 million copies worldwide. Production Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. 29th Annual Grammy Awards The 29th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1987, at Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles, California . They recognized accomplishments by musicians from

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