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Dusty Springfield offering career advice to a then unknown Sheena Easton

Dusty offers Sheena some advice on being a pop singer in music business in this BBC clip from 1980. Fun to watch!

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by Anonymousreply 32May 12, 2022 5:26 PM

the For Your Eyes Only Oscar clip of Sheena is gaining camp momentum

by Anonymousreply 1May 2, 2021 10:53 AM

Dusty was a gold mine. Sheena Easton is too.

by Anonymousreply 2May 2, 2021 2:53 PM

I wish Dusty were still with us. She was a treasure. I wish Sheena Easton wasn't so lazy with her career and would grace us with more recorded music.

by Anonymousreply 3May 4, 2021 11:27 AM

Both had hits about being a floozy "Son of a Preacher Man" and "Sugar Walls"

by Anonymousreply 4May 4, 2021 12:01 PM

Something so lovable about Dusty.

by Anonymousreply 5May 4, 2021 12:12 PM

I guess the entire planet mentored Sheena Easton. Must be nice.

by Anonymousreply 6May 4, 2021 12:14 PM

How could Sheena get on stage night after night and sing a song about a man spending the night inside her pussy? Splenda Walls?

by Anonymousreply 7May 5, 2021 9:22 AM

My Sugar Walls my Sugar Walls!!!

by Anonymousreply 8May 11, 2022 8:13 PM

I love Dusty, but this is probably at one of the lowest points of her life and career. It's kind of sad to see. She likely did this for the money.

by Anonymousreply 9May 11, 2022 8:15 PM

R9 how in the hell do you know it was her low point? She was being interviewed by the BBC.

by Anonymousreply 10May 11, 2022 8:19 PM

It's been documented in several books, R10. She was struggling with depression and addiction. It took her a few more years, and the PSB duet, to really be in a much better space.

by Anonymousreply 11May 11, 2022 8:22 PM

One of Dusty's lowest points was going on TV and claiming she was marrying a man, meanwhile she was actually about to have a commitment ceremony in a wedding dress with a studly woman.

by Anonymousreply 12May 11, 2022 8:28 PM

This was a low point for Dusty. At this time, her longstanding relationship with Philips/Phonogram ended.

by Anonymousreply 13May 11, 2022 8:29 PM

[Quote] I wish Sheena Easton wasn't so lazy with her career and would grace us with more recorded music.

Realistic, more like.

by Anonymousreply 14May 11, 2022 8:29 PM

Did any of you watch Sheena's Las Vegas based talk show?

by Anonymousreply 15May 11, 2022 8:30 PM

I see…r11 r12 r13

by Anonymousreply 16May 11, 2022 8:30 PM

R15 I saw the one she had with Brian McNight in or around 2004 or 2005. She was hilarious about shit.

by Anonymousreply 17May 11, 2022 8:31 PM

I enjoy Sheena Easton's TV interviews more than her singing. She had a fun, sparky personality. She brought none of that to her music, where, after her initial Chris Neil period, she mostly vamped it up and... nothing else.

by Anonymousreply 18May 11, 2022 9:22 PM

"Strut" is classic, though. Sheena has "Strut" and Branigan has "Self Control."

by Anonymousreply 19May 11, 2022 9:23 PM

Sheena was a proficient singer.

Never got a strong sense of her, though.

by Anonymousreply 20May 11, 2022 9:25 PM

I always appreciated her versatility as a pop singer. She was able to successfully transform herself from ballads to rock to r&b and dance music styles with ease.

by Anonymousreply 21May 11, 2022 9:46 PM

r3 meh., She needed to do more voice overs.

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by Anonymousreply 22May 11, 2022 9:48 PM

I loved Dusty's virtually unheard album White Heat, where she went all Pat Benetar.

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by Anonymousreply 23May 12, 2022 4:42 PM

Get it, girl!

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by Anonymousreply 24May 12, 2022 4:44 PM

[Quote] where she went all Pat Benetar.

Dusty didn't go all predictable, so not Pat Benatar, no.

by Anonymousreply 25May 12, 2022 4:54 PM

I'm surprised you still have a hair left to split, darling.

by Anonymousreply 26May 12, 2022 4:57 PM

"White Heat" is Dusty at her most experimental. That ain't splitting hairs. Pat Benatar was Corporate.

by Anonymousreply 27May 12, 2022 4:58 PM

Anyway, Dusty could sing anything.

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by Anonymousreply 28May 12, 2022 4:58 PM

Oh, jesus motherfucking christ.

by Anonymousreply 29May 12, 2022 4:59 PM

Not quite. She tried but she couldn't go as hard as Tina Turner or Etta James.

by Anonymousreply 30May 12, 2022 4:59 PM

Love this too, again so different.

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by Anonymousreply 31May 12, 2022 5:06 PM

The Brooks Arthur album was shaping up to be something very special. Dusty's reading of "In The Winter" is superlative.

by Anonymousreply 32May 12, 2022 5:26 PM
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