Cyndi Lauper will be trying to banish her "stage fright" ahead of her Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury this weekend. The 'True Colors' hitmaker, who is bowing out with the 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour', will head to Worthy Farm on Saturday (29.06.
24) to rock the main stage, but admitted she was previously so nervous to perform in front of the masses at the Berlin Wall, that she burst into tears. The world-famous festival in Somerset, south west England, will welcome a whopping 210,000 revellers over the weekend, so no pressure, Mrs. Lauper.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, she said: "Should I have stage fright? Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “When I did the wall in Berlin in 1990, I started crying because that was really big, I mean really, really big, and I had to tell myself: ‘I was professional and I could do this,’ I did.” Elsewhere, the 71-year-old icon recalled her chance encounter with Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, 82, who became the oldest solo act to headline Glasto in 2022, aged 80 - at the dentist of all places.
She shared: “I was standing there, and all of a sudden, I turned around and there he is. “I didn’t know what to say, so I say: ‘Oh, your teeth look good.’ You know, what (are) you going to say at the dentist? And he was like: ‘Oh, hug,’ so I was like, ‘OK.
’ But he seems like a very nice person.” The musician will bring her last-ever jaunt to.