Description
Firstever vinyl repress of Sheena Eastons hit 1983 album. Remastered from the original master tapes and pressed on whitecoloured vinyl with refreshed artwork including a new inner sleeve. Includes the US smash singles Almost Over You and Grammynominated 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 platinumselling albums and became an international sensation. 1983 proved a pivotal year for Sheena as she fully embraced her burgeoning US stardom following a sellout US tour, hit TV specials and regular primetime appearances. Best Kept Secret was her first album recorded Stateside. Working with redhot producer Greg Mathieson fresh from holding down the top two slots with Toni Basil and Laura Branigan and Grammy winner Jay Graydon Earth Wind amp Fire, Dionne Warwick J the album repositioned Easton as a youthful new wave stylist as capable 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 outofthebox smash reinstalling Sheena in the US Top 10 pop and establishing her as heavy rotation MTV star and dance chart regular. This is the fourth in a series of remastered vinyls of her 1980s albums, and part of Cherry Reds on going reissue campaign of the stars EMI catalogue in association with RT Industries.
