Princess

To us Brits, Sheena Easton was the nice Scottish lass who became famous because of a TV show and had a couple of pleasant pop hits. We thought of her more like one of The Nolan Sisters than Madonna.

We had all but forgotten about her by the mid-80s, so it was a bit of a surprise to find that she was doing well in America and making records with Prince. PRINCE! Our Sheena! How the hell did that happen?

Apparently The Purple One saw her on television one night and decided to write a song for her — the sort of thing you do when you’re a creative genius with music gushing out of you — which turned out to be the terrific and utterly filthy “Sugar Walls.” That wasn’t the end of their collaboration either. Prince wrote other songs for her, she sang on “U Got The Look”, and even wrote lyrics for him. That’s quite the journey for a girl who got her big break from Esther Rantzen.

Though this was a hit in the States it didn’t even make the charts in the UK. Maybe we just didn’t want to hear our Sheena singing a song about her vagina.

Download: Sugar Walls (12″ Dance Mix) – Sheena Easton (mp3)