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Dressed in her 1980s finest, India Fowler spent half a day dancing to Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” over and over again, and somehow the “Fear Street: Prom Queen” star doesn’t hate the tune.
@whatrichpeoplearewearing Replying to @VillaHero82 ♬ Self Control - Laura Branigan A video shared to TikTok showed the NFL quarterback and Ponton arriving at the event together, although they ...
I was thinking of starting this post by asking you to cue the 1980s Laura Branigan hit “Self Control”—except this version of self-control won’t have you losing your mind in the middle of ...
Laura Branigan scored one of the biggest hits of the early '80s with “Gloria,” the 1982 cover of an Italian song that stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, setting a record for a ...
But Laura sadly met an untimely end while asleep, at the age of just 52, having suffered from persistent headaches but failing to seek any medical advice. The cause of her death was later revealed ...
Following the publication of his new book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer, Ian Wade offers up a guide to ten key tracks from the era's gay dancefloors, from Eartha Kitt to Evelyn Thomas If you’ve read ...
Go figure. (Fun fact: Laura Branigan reworked this song as “Deep in The Dark” with different lyrics for her second album Branigan 2 in 1983. It’s interesting to hear but not as good.) ...
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He has some firsthand knowledge of ’80s pop music. In 1984, he directed the video for “Self Control,” performed by Laura Branigan, and a year later, he fell in love with the group Wang Chung.
US pop star Laura Branigan, who enjoyed hits with the songs Gloria and Self Control in the early 1980s, has died of a brain aneurysm in her sleep aged 47. Branigan, also an actress, was nominated for ...
"It's a word that's meant a lot to me throughout my life. And, you know, the Laura Branigan gay anthem 'Gloria' is something I've always heard in gay clubs. And then 'Gloria' in school, through ...