![]() ![]() In 1984 she recorded “Todo Me Recuerda a Ti” (“Everything Reminds Me Of You”) in Spanish and it was a hit in Mexico, but nowhere else. She returned to the top ten later that year with the first single from her fourth studio album, “Best Kept Secret”, “Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)” (US No.9, UK No.84) and it seemed Sheena was now a bigger hit that side of the pond that in her own home country as the singles continued to nosedive there while remaining buoyant there. Sheena would have to wait until the following year before she was back in the US top ten, this time with Kenny Rogers singing “We’ve Got Tonight” (US No.6). Her 1982 album, “Madness, Money & Music” performed poorly while all three singles from it failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic. The album of the same name went Gold again in America but only achieved a Silver certification back home. Moderately more successful was the follow up, “You Could Have Been With Me”, which although charted a lowly No.54 in the UK, did make No.15 Stateside, giving Sheena five top twenty hits in the space of twelve months there. Although “Just Another Broken Heart” did not keep up the trend of chart hits when it stalled at No.33 in the UK. ![]() Easton released the first new music from her second album that Summer. And just like that song, “For Your Eyes Only” would become the third 007 tune to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original song the following year, losing to Christopher Cross’ “The Best That You Can Do (Arthur’s Theme)”. ‘For Your Eyes Only’ was the Summer smash hit of 1981 around the world and Sheena’s theme would be a huge hit as well, making No.4 in the US and No.8 in the UK, the best performing Bond song since Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better” in 1977. So impressed was main titles designer Maurice Binder with Easton’s looks, he filmed her for the opening titles sequence and so Sheena became and remains the only artist ever to appear in a Bond credit sequence as she sings her own song. ![]() Originally Blondie had recorded a very credible song (which we discuss in a separate article), but Easton was a favourite of producer ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s daughter, Barbara and together with Christopher Neil, a haunting ballad was fashioned for this first entry of the 1980’s. But 1981 would get even bigger when she was asked to record the title theme song from that year’s James Bond film, ‘For Your Eyes Only’. She was going places and also recording for her second studio album that would appear later that year. The album would be Gold certified both in the UK and America, where it was titled “Sheena Easton”. “One Man Woman” went top twenty in the UK and preceded her debut album, “Take My Time”, at the beginning of 1981, which would feature the UK/US top thirty single, “When He Shines”. She would go on to re-marry a further three times! Sheena’s third single, “One Man Woman” could be deemed as quite a laughable title as Easton’s first marriage broke up after just eight months. Topping the US singles chart in May and reaching No.3 in the UK, “9 To 5”, another Neil production, was also a number on ‘down under’ and in doing so, pushed “Modern Girl” back up the chart to finally reach No.8 in the UK and No.18 Stateside. Her debut single, the disco classic “Modern Girl”, produced by Christopher Neil (Bonnie Tyler, Toyah Wilcox), was not an immediate hit, only making it to No.56 in the UK in February 1980, but it was the follow up, “9 To 5 (Morning Train)” that sealed her name and made her famous. EMI Records saw her and signed her and Easton was on the road to stardom. She left after four years in 1979 to marry Sandi Easton and later that same year, auditioned for the BBC talent show, The Big Time, where she performed with Lulu and Dusty Springfield. The real bait came in 1973 when the 14 year old heard Barbra Steisand singing “The Way We Were” and in 1975, Sheena enrolled at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. It’s Sheena Easton: “For Your Eyes Only”! Scotland’s Sheena Orr (b.1959) made her debut aged just 5 at her aunt and uncle’s 25th wedding anniversary and that was all she wanted to do from then on. ![]() She is the “Modern Girl” who catches the “Morning Train”. ![]()
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