Dusty was absolutely delightful and so nice to Sheena. A true star from start to finish with such honesty xx

So young,fresh,cute,wide eyed and delightful and a great voice to boot but when she sung that song "I Got The Music In Me" she brought out that inner spunk!!Sheena sure came a long way and those who doubted her from the beginning just gave her ammunition to prove herself and delivered even more and the rest is history.💯💯💕

So satisfying watching Sheena’s early moments and success…pleased for her as a young Sheena finds her way.

@BaddaBigBoom

8 ай бұрын

...and her real accent.

I’ve not seen this program since it was first broadcast! It’s knockout as is Sheena Easton. FYEO still ranks as one of the finest Bond songs. How Sheena belted that number 💪

Just been listening to her old music. She really had such a beautiful voice. 💕💕

Those woman made nasty comments saying she was plain and would get a flop, who laughing now, Sheena did all the way to the bank !

@allanhernandez2508

2 жыл бұрын

The Big Time should've went back and gotten Lulu, Marion Massey and Dorothy Squires's reaction after Sheena Easton made it real big.

@jamesdavidkmoss

Жыл бұрын

I know coming from lulu lol

@rampageclover9788

Жыл бұрын

Preferred her here tbh

@nicholalaw2681

11 ай бұрын

Very true sheena easton was great 👍 good for you sheena you did it.

@spirg

9 ай бұрын

The guy at 34:25 , Uninteresting 😂😂😂, Combs his hair with a pork chop. MORON !!!!

1981 was a big year for Sheena in the US! Morning Train went to #1 followed up by Modern Girl. Then For Your Eyes Only and finished off the year with You Could've Been With which went into 1982. She won a Grammy for Best New Recording Artist in 1982. That's alot!!

@ClassicTVMan1981X

Жыл бұрын

Her second album marked the first time she had recorded in the U.S., at Jimmy Guercio's Caribou Ranch.

One of the finest singers to have come out of Britain.

@KevinPhillips-dl8ih

10 ай бұрын

Sheena is from SCOTLAND! She's is Scottish. She is NOT British.

@BaddaBigBoom

8 ай бұрын

*Scotland

@michaelcarm

14 күн бұрын

Scotland is part of Britain and she is British, as well as Scottish, so well said.

Sheena proved them wrong didn’t she?! Of course, she could have faded in to the background but she had talent and looks. It’s a great combination. I remember when 9-5 was a big hit. Everyone was like, “Who is that?”.

@michaelrich9394

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. 2 time grammy winner. Sadly, I wonder how Sheena felt after being replaced by Lulu in 42nd Street.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelrich9394 She did attempt a comeback tour in Glasgow in 1990 but the crowd was rather rowdy.

@gingerfellah5665

Жыл бұрын

@@ClassicTVMan1981X Much has been written about this 1990 performance. I was actually there near the front when she came on, the people around me all gasped at how beautiful and sexy she was. But I can't comment about the reception near the back.

@b.d.cooper8671

Жыл бұрын

@@gingerfellah5665 I wasn't around then, but I can bet the drunkards in the back were the ones who were trying to cause problems. It's no different in America, as there is always that one section of the crowd who doesn't know how to behave

1983 sheena played at the fair here in town. I got my seat VERY early in the day and sat there for 6 hours getting to watch them setting it alll up and her getting it all fine tuned for the show later. Loved just watching her work prior to the show that evening with her band and crew. Got pictures of it all around here somewhere.

I absolutely adore 💜 Sheena! We get to see Sheena from being a innocent girl from Glascow to a sexy star! Great video!!! I bought her debut album the week it came out, and have owned every version (LP, CD and cassette)of this great LP. Her debut album is in my top 10 of all time favorite LP's! As well as her other albums that followed. Her singing is beautiful and timeless!

She has a wonderful voice.

Sheena Easton is an intelligent, lovely, kind person with common sense and a wonderful sense of humor! It should be Dame Sheena Easton!

I was born in the late fall of 1978 in central Kentucky. I grew up in Northern Kentucky! This is the first time I have ever seen this excellent entire 1980 documentary! It is excellent! The beautiful and extremely talented singer, actress, dancer, entertainer and performer Sheena Easton is one of my favorite artists! I love Sheena Easton the first time I ever heard and saw her in 1981! I love her Scottish accent! Thank you very much for posting and sharing this 1980 excellent documentary!

I love her so much. Sheena Easton is my favorite female pop singer.

EXCELLENT.........wwll done sheena

Ironically, Sheena was the first British female to reach #1 in the USA after Lulu and only the third ever. She had an amazing ten year run at the top in the USA with multiple hits, Grammy wins and starring roles on TV and Broadway. She then stepped back to raise her kids and now tours singing her old hits.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

Жыл бұрын

It was because of her that there were so many girls named Sheena between 1981-1985 alone. After the "Sugar Walls" controversy during 1985, this name fell out of the Top 100 for 1986, and then slipped out of the Top 1000 a decade later.

@popboy0

Жыл бұрын

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge (UK) in 1948. She had five N°1 singles on Billboard Hot 100, ten N°1 singles on Adult Contemporary chart, four Grammys and eight American Music Awards. She was the most successful female British singer of all times. In January 1979 , her majesty Queen Elizabeth ll gave her the Orden of British Empire (OBE).

@rgrndu

9 ай бұрын

She’s not British.

@user-mn4kg3jb4j

6 ай бұрын

Petula Clark had a number one hit song with Downtown in the United States and won a grammy award! Follow by many more song hits and multiple television appearances in the United States and Europe! Petula Clark had her own television show and Two American Movies Finian's Rainbow and the musical version of Goodbye Mr. Chips! Petula Clark also performed at the Academy Awards! Petula Clark was a child star at age 6 in England and in British movies!

@feoyjodido1372

4 ай бұрын

​@popboy0 No, she born in1959

Known about this show for decades, finally found it and watched it. So much more fascinating (and rawer) than glossier things from later on like “Pop Idol” & “X Factor”. I think her hair looked fine before the makeover!

9 to 5 was the first record I bought, it cost me £1.05 which was a lot to me in 1980

@cliffhanley2120

3 жыл бұрын

Loved that song.

I remember we all dressed like this in jump suits, and had our hair & make up done like Sheena's, the black eyeliner on the outer eyes (the 9 to 5 look)

A unique human being. An individual unlike any other. But not different enough.. Love you, Sheena.

I absolutely love and adore Sheena❤

Grande Sheena gracias por avernos dejado un legado tan grande de canciones hermosas con tu increíble voz admiración total!!!!

For me she have an impresive beauty

@nicholalaw169

4 жыл бұрын

She got out and made something of herself 😁

an incredible evolution from here to "do it for love" and "Strut"...

Thank you for posting this! I've many times heard the tale of how she got her big break, but I'd never seen the entire show before.

Modern girl is lyrics that were ground breaking and still are relevant today . This was great and My God Wasnt Lulu a jealous Cow to her.

Sheena has the lot she has a amazing voice great look one of the most stunning woman to come out of the 80s and she had her own personalty she was sooooooooooooooooooo young in this clip as Sheena said she grown into her self she was an 80s superstar lulus manager was an old fart .

She has the cutest accent.

When you see lulu manager, all them ate their words.

Momentos inolvidables para sheena bellos recuerdos exelentes premios para mí cantante favorita para toda mi vida saludos desde chiclayo city peru

LA AMO CON TODAS LAS FUERZAS DE MI ALMA .... MI MAESTRA

Its been a long time that i will said it to you Ms Sheena! Ived got a crush on you when 80s came on! But i also have a crush on Ms. Olivia Newton John! But youre the most! And now that im 55 yrs old i still have it on myself for having a crush on you! So always take care of urself! Muah muah!

Thanks for this. Been looking for this since 1980.

❤❤❤ Bella y talentosa!

Well, Lulu's manager was right about one thing . Sheena could and DID become startling and sensational looking. And hearing that must have made Lulu even MORE crazy with jealousy.

@b.d.cooper8671

Жыл бұрын

I can see the beauty in Sheena at this point. She was going ot be beautiful given time as she was young

@alanmackie7012

9 ай бұрын

She was right about the hair though. It wasn't that great even for 1980. They got it right eventually though.

@b.d.cooper8671

9 ай бұрын

@@alanmackie7012 She looked great with short hair, but she was even better looking with that haircut she had for "A Private Heaven"

I really don't know much about Dorothy Squires but she seemed like one charismatic lady

Beautiful

Really enjoyed the section with Dusty Springfield.

Sheena won two Grammy awards. Lulu was nominated for one.... don't remember if she actually won

@b.d.cooper8671

10 ай бұрын

And the one Grammy for Mexican-American Artist of the Year because she did that duet with Lusi Miguel, much to the chagrin of the Mexican-American artists at the time. But don't forget all the Grammys they didn't give her for Best Female Vocalist as she was constantly passed over for some inferior act.

I LOVE SHEENA EASTON !!! 👍🏻🪙👍🏻

Sheena Easton is the only artist in the history of the US Billboard charts to have a top 3 hit on each of the Billboards key charts: Adult Contemporary, Dance, Pop, Country, and R&B.

big crush on Sheena - voice of an angel

Wow! I’ve wanted to see this for a while! Thanks!

10:37 I was just waiting on Jimmy Saville appearing from the edge of the screen saying " Now then Now then....what do we 'ave 'ere"

I wonder if you have the follow-up special to this in your archive: "The Making of a Star" (April 21, 1981)? This was done right after "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" had been released in the U.S. in February 1981, and thus became her first, and only, American number 1 single, which she held for two weeks on our Billboard Hot 100 in May 1981. "Modern Girl" also charted in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, going to number 18 that July.

I’ve always wanted to see this, thanks 😃👍

thank you so much - a late christmas present as i found this today !!!

Nice find👍.

9 to 5 was the next single and the rest was history.

Interesting Video about Sheena's Beginnings!!! Thanks for Sharing it!!!

I just stumbled upon this/I glad..,I did..,I originally from/Georgetown/Guyana..,I knew her by way of her when..,For your eyes only was released in/Guyana..,I think..,it came to/Guyana the same year it was released..,I was 10/11years in/1981..,Anyway..,I always like her song..,For your eyes only..,What a great..,She sung and belted out like it was only made for her to sing..,She ace it..,..,Love her/Voice..,She's pretty too..,Actually..,When I was attending secondary school in/Georgetown/Guyana..,There was an Indian girl attending there kinda looked like her..,She had short hair too..,And..,I had a thing for that girl..,I had liked her..,I left /Guyana for/Nyc in/1985..,May23rd..,Anyway. .,I like/Sheena's music/songs etc..,And..,She's/Preete. .,I like her accent. .,I like the/Scottish accent..,I do a good/Shaun Connery imitation..,Maybe..,One day..,If I ever get a chance..,I would go to/Scotland..,My mother and sister went there for a weekend in/1989..,And..,I had a/Tee shirt from there. .,Anyway. .,Beautiful girl. .,Great unique voice..,Her music/Songs. .,Love them. .,

As we say in Glasgow " Dont forget your auld arse when you get a new one"

EASTON FOREVER

Really enjoyed this , I remembered watching this when I was a kid .Lulu came across as quite spiteful.

This is SO fascinating! Never knew any of this!!

Ha el acento de esta mujer me encanta

Dusty Springfield was so lovely, what a sweet lady can not say the same about Lulu and her manager, yikes!

@rich975

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Lulu and Marian's comments about her image are fairly spot-on, but they seem to take such pleasure in running her down, as if to prove a point. It's interesting that Dusty (who was not exactly riding high in the charts then) just gives her some positive advice. As you say, a sweet lady.

@pcs8973

2 жыл бұрын

Lulu is jealous and her manager's a cowbag

@alanmackie7012

9 ай бұрын

TBH, if they'd said she was going to be a huge star and she flopped, nobody would've remembered.

So innocent girl

Awesome

this was fantastic !! thank you... CONFIDENCE

This is great

Reminds me around the time I joined the army

The only Bond singer to appear in a film. Lulu's manager was right, in retrospect. Olivia may have gotten the attention with the suddenly short hair, but it was very current in 1980. The Dorothy Hamills and the Farrah's were passé. Diana Spencer and Melissa Manchester also went short. Of course, they spent the next decade growing it out...

@52:08 onward = The answer to 'Would she have made it without the Big Time or not'. That voice can be heard around the world and back if you closed your eyes to just listen. No doubt she would've been discovered somewhere by someone. That voice is just incredible!

I remember watching this when it was shown on tv. I was probably about 7 and totally horrified that they made her cut her hair! I think that was the moment I realised stardom wasn’t for me 🤣

@bowler8

3 жыл бұрын

the first thing those guys said in the audition, was they liked her looks, so why change it?

@smollande

8 ай бұрын

Oh I thought the opposite! I wanted to cut my hair off and be all modern looking if i could. I've always wanted an exciting life like hers as a teen. 🤣

I love Dusty Springfield!

awesome , so cute

Treasure💗

❤

Hard to believe that the one is Roger Moore's ex-wife in Dorothy Squires and I think she gave some harsh, but constructive criticism that she wanted Sheena to succeed, but she also didn't want to it get to Sheena's head. Ironic that Sheena and Roger became friends from their time together on FYEO.

Quite a journey from this to Sugar Walls!

Would love to know the musicians names in the studio band?

Men's fashion ans attitudes in the seventies so easy to satirise. they look like cariacatures

Thanks but I think this is the follow up show "Sheena Easton - The Making of a Star"

Donde encuentro una muñeca igual a ella

I had no idea she was a manufactured act, but at least she could really sing well unlike current manufactured acts like Britney, Billie Eillish and Rihanna.

@Freestyle39

4 жыл бұрын

Did you see the look on Sheena’s face when that snob of a manager criticized her appearance ? She looked at her like she wanted to bitch slap her back to London Town. Lol ! 😂And how Lulu was doing the same only after Sheena was humiliated she felt sorry for her and started kissing up to her. But if you ask me and if I was sitting between those two ? I would have called both those crabs, jealous snobs. Lulu never amounted to be a bigger star internationally. Sheena was perfect in every way a new pop star could ever be and I am saying this without exaggerating. Wish I was working for the BBC at the time to laugh at the music excutive/dj for rejecting her first single she and her production team worked hard to produce. They seemed too critical at the time about a pop artist’s appearance. What were they thinking at the time ? Lol ! 😃

She looks so much better with all that make up on

she was a good pop singer,but like a lot sounded much better after the recording studio souped things up, i think lena zavaroni had an amazing voice, going nowhere was fantastic clear powerful and really sang from the heart

Lamentablemente su vida amorosa ha dado muchos traspies

GAVE... Piss off. Glad it's 40 years ago. OFFERED is the right word. She made it her own and her own feet.

I'm amused that Sheena thought that Esther Rantzen was talking crap.

Is this the FULL documentary because, at 42.09, the credits appear when there's another set of credits at the end, so what gives?

@bowler8

3 жыл бұрын

there was a follow up some time later

@tangoarab

3 ай бұрын

Looks like this is the big time and the making of a star partly joined up together

Early AGT

Not painting a rosy picture are you?😂

Maybe the British public fell in love with this version of Sheena and rejected the raunchier new model?

"Modern Girl" was really an odd choice for first single

These older women don't know what the hell they're talking about.

£10,000 to launch a new artist 😂😂

20:10 sloppy 1960's era plastic surgery

Had the crappiest management and promotion team EVER. That kind of voice and beauty and her career quickly went nowhere. She should still be a superstar but she's on the mid-size fair circuit and has been for many years.

@mistergromit

3 жыл бұрын

I guess if you call recording a Bond theme, having #1 records around the globe, working with the likes of Prince and Nile Rodgers and selling over 20 million records going nowhere !

@zackparsons3937

3 жыл бұрын

She released 16 singles but only had ONE number one...so you don't have your facts straight. She had a quick success and then disappeared. Bad management. Bad promotion.

@zackparsons3937

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistergromit so what happened to her? She disappeared because she had poor management and promotion.

@Khon-Lao-Thai

2 жыл бұрын

I think you need to look up her history again Sheena Easton, think you got her confused with someone else lol. Many nominations and 2 Grammy awards, won few other rawards, and many hit songs after songs, recorded albums for 10 years, and she didn't disappear, she stopped to raised her children, after that she on touring.

@zackparsons3937

2 жыл бұрын

@@Khon-Lao-Thai you are clueless and need to GFY.

I prefered her accent before you lost it and got an American one 🤮

sure, great, the triangles, the casual video, ... who can belive that her story here is true??? great voice at all

Interesting little programme this. I've never bought any Sheena Easton records but that Round Table producer character at 35:20, behaved like a real up his own arse twat. I think this typified some of the wankers that worked at Radio 1 at that time. He could have chosen some of his words better, considering there were cameras there, and taken the record for what it was, what did he expect to hear after all ? This is only a kid trying to get her record played. This sort of stuff was Radio 1s bread and butter back then.