This is a fascinating article...probably a repost but I didn't see it on the first page of this forum:

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Sheena-Easton-Looking-back-at-her-musical-history-/38975.html

Thanks for sharing, that was indeed fabulous reading. They always seemed a bit of unlikely duo to me, but sound like they had a tremendous working relationship, perhaps quite different than your average Prince female protegee relationship.

I think Prince had alot of respect for Sheena and her talent.He didn't try to dominate her career,like he did with the others.He allowed her to write lyrics.She wrote the lyrics to "Arms Of Orion" and sent it to him.

wow, always thought it was Sheila E not Sheena E that worked with him on La, La Laa hee hee.

plus I didn't know she wrote Arms of Orion!!!

Nice to read

That's my song..

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Then you'd get down there, like with '101,' and he'd play it and I'd be like, 'I don't know' and he'd say, 'Well, just go and sit and listen to it a little bit.' I'd go and he'd come right in and say, 'Let's go.' 'But I don't know it completely,' [I'd say]. 'Well just sing what you know, then,' [he'd say]."

"There's this part in there where I kinda go off-melody and I just start taking higher and higher and he says, 'Well, that's not the right melody but we're keeping that and we're gonna work with that.' And so it's one of those things that's really organic—just a great moment in the studio. Plus I like the production. I love the subway doors opening and closing. He wanted it to be very haunting, and to just be about the desperation in the voice—[and] about the concept of you being away from this person for forever, it seems, and you just can't bear it for one more night.

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Interesting to know that she wrote the lyrics & Prince the music for Arms of Orion (I don't think the liner notes explain who wrote which aspects of the song).

Thanks for that! Sheena was always a class act.

eyewishuheaven said:

Thanks for that! Sheena was always a class act.

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