BEST KEPT SECRET (WHITE VINYL)

First
-
ever
vinyl
repress
of
Sheena Easton's
hit
1983
album.
"
Remastered from the original master tapes and pressed
on
white
coloured
vinyl
with
refreshed
artwork
including
new inner sleeve.
"
Includes
the
US
smash
singles
'Almost
Over
You'
and
Grammy
-
nominated 'Telefone
(Long Distance Love
Affair)' as well as her stunning take on the
Dusty
Springfield
classic 'Just One Smile'.
Sheena
Easton
rocketed
to
overnight
fame
in
1980
with
the
BBC
broadcast
of
The
Big
Time
-
arguably
the
first
pop
reality
show
-
subsequently
breaking
records
with
her
first
two
singles
'Modern
Girl' and '9 To 5' simultaneously hitting the UK Top Ten. Within
a year, she had topped the US Hot 100 with the renamed
'Morning Train (Nine To Five)', recorded the Bond theme 'For
Your Eyes Only', released two platinum
-
selling albums and
become an
international sensation.
1983 proved a pivotal year for Sheena as she fully embraced her
burgeoning US stardom following a sell
-
out US tour, hit TV
specials and regular primetime appearances. 'Best Kept Secret'
was her first album recorded Stateside. Wor
king with red
-
hot
producer
Greg Mathieson
(fresh from holding down the top two
slots with
Toni Basil
and
Laura Branigan
) and Grammy
-
winner
Jay Graydon (Earth Wind & Fire, Dionne Warwick
J) the album
repositioned Easton as a youthful new wave stylist
-
as ca
pable
of rocking hard on cuts like 'Devil In A Fast Car' as she was in
nailing a soaring
Streisand
-
style ballad like the top 5 AC smash
'Almost Over You.' Lead single 'Telefone' was an out of the box
smash
-
reinstalling
Sheena
in
the
US
top
10
pop
and
est
ablishing
her as heavy rotation MTV star and dance chart regular.
T
his is the fourth in a series of remastered vinyls of her 1980s
albums,
and
part
of
Cherry
Red's
on
-
going
reissue
campaign
of
the star's EMI catalogue in association with RT Industries.