He didn’t just kind of brush it off and go ‘Oh, that’s nice,’ or spare your feelings, he’d go ‘That’s really good, that’s not good, work on this part, toss that one, start from scratch.’ He gave really good advice to where it did help me get better as a songwriter and as an artist. I’d say that he was honest, and he was critical in a way that he wanted you to give your best, and get better. I don’t know that I’d say hyper-critical. You once said something to the effect that when you wrote together, he was hyper-critical in a really good way …. Working with him was of the best experiences I ever had. We used to have a great time laughing, and just a lot of fun in the studios. Plus he was a friend and a very, very funny guy. I learned so much just from watching him work. It was like a master class every time we went into the studio together. So from that point of view, it was awesome. He had a way of structuring sound that was uniquely his. Sheena Easton: If you got all the artists of my generation into a room together, I think we would all agree that Prince was one of the most unique and gifted artists of our time. Pete Catalyst: There aren’t a lot of people who had the opportunity to do so much work with Prince. These days, she goes out and sings two weekends a month, connecting – much to her delight, as you’ll see in this interview – with fans who never fully recovered from “For Your Eyes Only,” “Morning Train,” “Telefone,” “Strut,” “The Lover in Me” or even “Sugar Walls.” We caught up with the Grammy-winning pop star at her home in Las Vegas. “They said that when I did Miami Vice with Don Johnson.” “When a male and a female artist get together and work, they always say that,” Easton reports. Rumors flew that they’d had a fling, as they always did when the sexually-charged Prince wrote songs for, or sang with, an attractive young woman. Prince wrote her hit “Sugar Walls” (which, due to its libidinous lyrics, landed on Tipper Gore’s legendary “Filthy Fifteen” list of songs that were leading America’s children astray) they wrote and performed “101” and “The Arms of Orion” together, and Easton famously appeared on Prince’s “U Got the Look,” and in its elaborately choreographed music video. He was known for mentoring female artists – but Sheena Easton was apparently the poly-talented musician’s favorite. Pete Pride Grand Central Street Fair, made serious rock ‘n’ roll history by recording not one, not two but four songs with Prince. She performed the theme song for a James Bond movie, too – an unassailable indicator of coolness by proxy.īut Scotland’s Sheena Easton, who’ll sing in St. charts in the 1980s – including one chart-topper, the infectious “Morning Train (9 to 5)” – and she was a pioneering video artist, sex symbol and fashionista, a dance-pop diva. She had seven Top Ten singles on the U.S.
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