Sheena Easton

In January 2005 Sheena appeared in the television series Young Blades..
. The passengers paused in awe, then went on singing. Following the concerts' cancellation, the band entered Tarbox Road Studio with producer Dave Fridmann and began work on their eleventh album, tentatively titled At War With The Mystics. Sheena boarded the train at Burnley Station, and screamed. In the summer of 2004, it was announced that the Flaming Lips would appear among the headliners on the 2004 Lollapalooza tour, alongside such legendary artists as Sonic Youth and Morrissey; however, the tour was canceled due to lack of revenue. A number of unrealistically happy passengers in an unrealistically underpatronised morning train were singing Morning Train. Recently, they performed as the backup band for singer Beck on his Sea Change tour.

In April and May 2004, Sheena visited Australia and featured in a kooky TV commercial for Connex in Melbourne. [1] (http://www.flaminglips.com/content/film/). She lives there with her two adopted children. In addition to their EPs, The Lips have been working for several years on a feature film entitled Christmas on Mars, with a predicted release date of Christmas 2005, though it should be noted that the film has been delayed two years already, originally scheduled to be released Christmas 2003. Since 2000 Sheena has appeared in a Broadway-style show in Las Vegas. After Yoshimi, The Flaming Lips released a series of EPs in the same vein of their previous album's robotic theme and containing remixed songs from Yoshimi, including Fight Test EP and Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP. Sheena continued acting in America, starring in Broadway revivals of Man Of La Mancha (1992) and Grease (1996). In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die".

She recently enjoyed some success with a song entitled "Fabulous" and has also become something of a gay icon. The loss of their former guitarist Ronald Jones, after the album Clouds Taste Metallic, brought the band to its current state. Four more albums would be released, but were only available in Europe and the Far East. The band's current line-up consists of Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and Steven Drozd. In 1991, What Comes Naturally became the last of Sheena’s albums to chart in the U.S. Also the LPs In A Priest Driven Ambulance and Hit To Death In The Future Head featured guitarist Jonathan Donahue, who would later go on to form and front for Mercury Rev. The song also appeared on her next album The Lover In Me, a moderate success which was released the following autumn. Several of the band's records are produced by unofficial fourth member Dave Fridmann of Mercury Rev, with whom the Flaming Lips are often compared.

By the spring of 1988 the latest installment of the Miami Vice Soundtrack was released, and featured the song “Follow My Rainbow”, which Sheena sang on her tragic last appearance, just moments before her character was fatally shot. Considered much more accessible than any of their previous albums, Yoshimi is widely considered to be The Flaming Lips' first critical commercial success after nearly twenty years of existing as a band. Sonny and Caitlin were married by the episode’s end, and the fourth-season’s sagging ratings were boosted so much that the producers signed Sheena to five more episodes. In 2002, The Flaming Lips released the full-length Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to much critical acclaim. In November of 1987 Sheena made her first dramatic acting appearance on the television programme Miami Vice playing a singer named Caitlin Davies, whom Sonny Crockett was assigned to protect until she made a court appearance. Marrying more traditional catchy melodies with languid synthetic strings, hypnotic, carefully manipulated beats, booming cymbals and oddball, philosophical lyrics (sung much more strongly than on earlier releases), the album was one of the underground hits of the year, widely considered to be one of the best albums of the entire decade. Around this same time she also recorded a Grammy-winning Spanish-language album, Todo me recuerda a ti and scored a country music hit with "We've Got Tonight", a duet with Kenny Rogers. Though their experimental endeavours received some press, their real breakthrough came with the massively acclaimed 1999 release, The Soft Bulletin.

Her move towards a more sexy image with "Strut" was met with mixed reactions from diehard fans, and she was also one of the first artists to have a music video banned based upon lyrics rather than imagery when some broadcasters refused to play her Prince-penned, sexually risque "Sugar Walls." Despite of (or perhaps because of) the controversy, the album A Private Heaven which featured "Strut" and "Sugar Walls" became her biggest seller. Following their experimental Zaireeka (1997), a four-CD album which is intended to be heard by playing all four CDs in four separate CD players simultaneously, the band conducted a series of "boombox experiments", where an orchestra comprising up to 40 volunteers with modified "boombox"-type tape players was "conducted" - directed to vary the volume, speed or tone of the tape they were playing (all of which were made by the band) - by the band's lead member, Wayne Coyne. Later, she also found success with the songs “Strut” (1984) and her 1987 duet with Prince “U Got The Look”. Clouds Taste Metallic was released to much critical fanfare in late 1995, though did not achieve the commercial success of its predecessor. Her best known early musical work is probably the James Bond movie theme “For Your Eyes Only”, and “Morning Train” (which was originally titled "9 to 5" in its British release but was renamed for American issue to avoid confusion with the Dolly Parton song "Nine to Five"). The Lips were even featured on the popular teen television series Beverly Hills 90210 in March of 1995. This culminated in a deal with EMI Records. Strangely enough, Transmissions spawned a top ten Modern Rock hit with "She Don't Use Jelly", peaking at number 9 in 1995.

Sheena first shot to fame on the United Kingdom television programme The Big Time which followed her attempts to gain a record contract. By 1994 they were gaining a respectable cult following and some college radio airplay with their album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr) is a pop singer born in Belshill, Scotland in April 1959. in 1990. They languished in relative obscurity for long periods of their history, releasing their first four albums on a minor label (Restless Records) before being picked up by Warner Bros. The Flaming Lips are Providing Needles For Your Balloons.. (an EP) and Talkin' Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever) (a song from Hit To Death In The Future Head).

They are also known for their bizarre and frequently humorous song and album titles, perhaps the most infamous examples being Due to high expectations.. The band is known for its catchy, dreamy guitar-led melodies, overlaid on signature complex and fast-paced drum beats and accompanied by idiosyncratic usage of samples. Over time the line-up has changed constantly, with Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins providing a stable foundation. The Flaming Lips are an American rock band with psychedelic influences, formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Mark Coyne, Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins.

This Here Giraffe (1996). Bad Days (1995). Turn It On (1995). The Flaming Lips are Providing Needles For Your Balloons.. (1994).

Due to high expectations.. She Don't Use Jelly (1993). But Wastin Pigs Is Still Radical (1991) (first WB single). Yeah, I Know It's A Drag..