Award-winning show by Sheena Easton

Press, 2 May 1984, Page 12

Award-winning show by Sheena Easton

Some 23 million Americans watched Sheena Easton’s most recent special when it was screened in the United States late last year. Featuring Kenny Rogers, Al Jarreau and Johnny Carson, and, improbably, a San Francisco motor-cycle gang, the show was an enormous hit and won three Emmy Awards. Ms Easton, a five-foot Glaswegian, has come a long way in the four or so years since her career kicked off with an appearance on the British documentary, “The Big Time.” Bom in a Scottish council

house, she now lives in a reproduction Tudor mansion 40 minutes drive out of Los Angeles.

“I don’t miss anything about my old life,” she says. “Not a thing. I used to be amazed at what had happened to me, but in the end you get used to anything, even success — though sometimes it really is quite shocking.” In her hour-long special, screening on Two at 7.30 tonight, Sheena Easton performs “We’ve Got Tonight” with Kenny Rogers, joins Al Jarreau in a boogie-woogie production number called ’“Last Night at Danceland,” and plays three motor-cycle molls harmonising on “He’s a Rebel.”