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Capt. Lou Albano and Cyndi Lauper

By Claire Noland
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Pro wrestler extraordinaire Capt. Lou Albano died Oct. 14 at 76, World Wrestling Entertainment and Wrestlers Rescue reported today.

Some will remember him for his exploits in the ring, but he found a whole new audience via MTV in the early 1980s when the music network put into heavy rotation a video pairing Albano with that gal with the multicolored hair, Cyndi Lauper.

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Watch the video for ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ here.

And here is a Times article from 1984 explaining how Lauper lived Capt. Lou’s PEG Principle, for Politeness, Etiquette and Grooming.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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