Singer-songwriter Robert Hazard, best known for penning Cyndi Lauper's huge 1983 hit "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and his own popular song "Escalator of Life," died Tuesday, according to the Associated ...

November 23, 2007 • The songwriter behind the pop anthem "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" helped define the fizzily eccentric persona of singer Cyndi Lauper, but Robert Hazard's catalog runs much deeper.

Robert Hazard, 59, a songwriter and musician who wrote “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” which became a hit for Cyndi Lauper in 1983, died Tuesday after surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.