Pop music icon Cyndi Lauper has gone way beyond “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” accumulating millions of dollars in her long career.

In 1986, Cyndi Lauper released a music video full of sparkling headdresses, big hair, chunky pearls, and trippy colorful visuals. The song, “True Colors,” would go on to become a renowned symbol of love and acceptance and an anthem for the queer community,

As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame welcomed its Class of 2025 on Nov. 8 at Los Angeles’s Peacock Theater, the inductees who did not attend or perform — for various reasons, some unavoidable and some just unexplained — were practically more newsworthy than the ones who actually turned up and turned it out.