Lynette Easton

This budget-priced, bare-bones box set rounds up the first five studio albums from the Scottish-born hitmaker. Part of WEA's Original Album Series, all of the material is taken from Easton's early-'80s heyday, which means that most of the big hits are here, including "9 to 5/Morning Train," "Modern Girl," "You Could Have Been with Me," "Strut," and "Sugar Walls." The collection includes 1980's Take My Time, 1981's You Could Have Been with Me, 1982's Madness, Money, and Music, 1983's Best Kept Secret, and 1984's A Private Heaven.

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition. Sheena Easton's platinum-plus 1984 EMI album - remastered from the original master tapes. Includes the Grammy-nominated 'Strut' and Prince-penned smash 'Sugar Walls'. Deluxe edition with a massive 21 bonus tracks featuring 12" mixes, B-sides and 12 previously-unreleased tracks including 'Have You Ever Been In Love' and the long 'Roman' version of 'Sugar Walls'. 24 page booklet includes rare photography and new interviews with producer Greg Mathieson, songwriters Charlie Dore, Robbie Nevil and more by ex-Attitude editor Adam Mattera. As part of Cherry Red's on-going reissue campaign of the star's EMI catalogue, this edition of 1984's new wave-orientated A Private Heaven represents Sheena Easton's US commercial peak, with material ranging from edgy rocker 'Swear' to show- stopping power ballad 'Hard To Say It's Over'. The #1 Dance hit 'Strut' and Top three R&B success of 'Sugar Walls' resulted in her being the only artist in US history to score Top three hits in each of Billboard's main charts: Hot 100, R&B, Dance, AC and Country.

Compilation on vinyl curated especially for Record Store Day 2023 with an additional 7" bonus disc.

Compilation on vinyl curated especially for Record Store Day 2023 with an additional 7" bonus disc.

Compilation on vinyl curated especially for Record Store Day 2023 with an additional 7" bonus disc.

Compilation on vinyl curated especially for Record Store Day 2023 with an additional 7" bonus disc.

"A Private Heaven", released in 1984, is the 6th album release by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. Released by EMI America, the album featured two US Top 10 hit singles: the lead single "Strut" and the controversial "Sugar Walls". "Swear", a third single, reached #80. The album is Easton's most successful album in the United States to date, reaching #15 in the US and selling over one million copies, earning a Gold and Platinum certification from the RIAA. In Canada, the album also went Platinum.

Few poets follow their own arrow as devotedly as Tim Easton, whose songwriting career has woven in and out of folk music and rock ‘n’ roll (and Americana before it was really called that), of erstwhile bands and solo songwriting, of his birthplace of America and all the other places he’s called home. Whether surviving as a busker in Paris and Prague, living and working on both US coasts, touring relentlessly through remote Alaska or recording with some of the most famous sidemen in rock history, Easton has followed his inspiration to every point on the map.

"Madness, Money & Music" is the 3rd album by singer Sheena Easton. It was released in 1982 and produced by Christopher Neil. The album includes the singles "I Wouldn't Beg for Water" (US #64) and "Machinery" (US #57, UK #38), as well as the UK single "Are You Man Enough". The album featured an early recording of the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", which would later be famously covered by Bette Midler and others. It also included the first recording of "You Do It", subsequently recorded by Diana Ross and Rita Coolidge, and a cover of Janis Ian's classic "In The Winter". The album was one of Easton's lower-charting efforts, reaching #85 in the United States #44 in the UK, but was more successful in Scandinavia and went Gold in Canada. Easton promoted the album by way of an hour-long special Act One, produced for American television and syndicated worldwide, during which she performed a number of songs from the album and embarked on her first world tour.