Sheena Easton

In January 2005 Sheena appeared in the television series Young Blades.. Band leaders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are the only original members still with the group. The passengers paused in awe, then went on singing. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and a well-attended arena tour lasted through 2004. Sheena boarded the train at Burnley Station, and screamed. In 2003 McVie left the band permanently to focus on her solo career, leaving Buckingham and Nicks to handle the vocals for the band's latest album, Say You Will. A number of unrealistically happy passengers in an unrealistically underpatronised morning train were singing Morning Train. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Fleetwood Mac in 1998.

In April and May 2004, Sheena visited Australia and featured in a kooky TV commercial for Connex in Melbourne. This would be the final time the 1970s incarnation would perform with Christine McVie. She lives there with her two adopted children. A hugely successful stadium tour followed the MTV premiere of The Dance which kept the reunited Mac on the road throughout much of 1997. Since 2000 Sheena has appeared in a Broadway-style show in Las Vegas. The second time was for a live concert in Los Angeles which resulted in the 1997 album The Dance. Sheena continued acting in America, starring in Broadway revivals of Man Of La Mancha (1992) and Grease (1996). The first time was for the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, who had made Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop his campaign song.

She recently enjoyed some success with a song entitled "Fabulous" and has also become something of a gay icon. The Buckingham/Nicks/McVie(s)/Fleetwood lineup would reunite from time to time in the 1990s. Four more albums would be released, but were only available in Europe and the Far East. Unfortunately, Behind The Mask failed to make gold, and it is often seen by music critics as a low point for the band in the absence of Lindsey Buckingham. In 1991, What Comes Naturally became the last of Sheena’s albums to chart in the U.S. Fleetwood Mac added guitarists Billy Burnette and Rick Vito and recorded more albums through the late 1980s and early 1990s, beginning with Behind The Mask, in which the group went for an edgier sound (as evidenced by the Nicks-composed single "Love Is Dangerous"). The song also appeared on her next album The Lover In Me, a moderate success which was released the following autumn. They would record one more album (Tango In The Night, 1987, which featured McVie's "Little Lies" and "Welcome To The Room, Sara", Nicks' sequel to Tusk's earlier track "Sara") before Buckingham officially quit the band.

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. The band would release further albums, including the quirky double album Tusk in 1979 (which spawned three hit singles, Nicks' seven-minute opus "Sara" [cut to three-and-a-half minutes for the first CD version release--it has since been restored for CD reissue], McVie's "Never Forget", and Buckingham's title track), a live album (Live, 1980) and the more conventional Mirage (which included Buckingham's "Hold Me" and Nicks' "Gypsy") before going on a hiatus, allowing for the solo careers of Buckingham, Nicks, and Christine McVie. 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. It spawned more hit singles than its predecessor, including Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way", Nicks' "Dreams", "Gold Dust Woman" and "The Chain" (the latter song credited to the entire group, but actually composed by Nicks), and McVie's "You Make Loving Fun" & "Don't Stop" (the group's signature song that usually closed their live concerts). 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. It became the best selling album of its time, selling over 18 million copies worldwide. The RIAA certified Rumours as a diamond album. 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. The resulting concept album was Rumours in 1977, in which the band laid bare the emotional turmoil of the time.

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. Huge additional pressures were placed on the band to release a followup album, which, when combined with the newly found wealth, led to large amounts of drug and alcohol consumption. Later, she also found success with the songs “Strut” (1984) and her 1987 duet with Prince “U Got The Look”. But in 1976, with the success of the band also came the end of John and Christine McVie's marriage, as well as Buckingham and Nicks' longtime romantic relationship. 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"). Among the hit singles from this album included McVie's "Over My Head" & "Say You Love Me", and Nicks' "Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)". This culminated in a deal with EMI Records. The album proved to be a breakthrough for the band and thus became a huge hit, and the group was catapulted into stardom.

Sheena first shot to fame on the United Kingdom television programme The Big Time which followed her attempts to gain a record contract. In 1975, the new lineup released the eponymous Fleetwood Mac. Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr) is a pop singer born in Belshill, Scotland in April 1959. Buckingham agreed, on the condition that his musical partner and girlfriend Stevie Nicks also be invited to the band. Having heard guitarist Lindsey Buckingham's skills, he asked Buckingham to join the band. To show Mick Fleetwood his mixing skills, Keith Olsen played a track for Fleetwood titled "Frozen Love", which he had mixed for Buckingham Nicks (Album Title: Buckingham Nicks PD 5058, Released in September 1973).

In late 1974, Bob Welch left the band, and Mick Fleetwood was left to fill the vacancy. Some of Fleetwood Mac's early hits in the Welch era include "Sentimental Lady" (from 1972's Bare Trees), which Welch himself remade during his solo career in 1977, and the stirring "Hypnotized" (from 1973's Mystery To Me). When American guitarist Bob Welch joined them, the band adopted more of a southern California country rock sound, still tempered by the blues influence of the British members. Fleetwood Mac went through many personnel changes, losing multiple lead guitarists (including Peter Green) and gaining blues singer Christine McVie (John McVie's wife).

hit). Early singles included "Oh, Well", "Albatross", and "Black Magic Woman" (which was re-recorded by Santana and became a U.S. Fleetwood Mac would release a series of straightforward blues albums which did moderately well in the United Kingdom. They were then joined by Jeremy Spencer.

The group began as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac in 1968 by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood, and bassist John McVie, after the three left (or were fired from) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Fleetwood Mac is a rock group led by Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (whose names partially form the group's name), who had their biggest hits in the 1970s. Say You Will (Warner, 2003). The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (Warner, 2002).

The Dance (Reprise, 1998). Time (Warner, 1995). 25 Years - The Chain (Warner, 1992). Behind the Mask (Reprise, 1990).

Greatest Hits (Reprise, 1988). Tango in the Night (Reprise, 1987). Mirage (Reprise, 1982). Live (Reprise, 1980).

Tusk (Reprise, 1979). Rumours (Reprise, 1977). Fleetwood Mac (Reprise, 1975). Heroes are Hard To Find (Reprise, 1974).

Penguin (Reprise, 1973). Mystery To Me (Reprise, 1973). Bare Trees (Reprise, 1972). Future Games (Reprise, 1971).

Kiln House (Reprise, 1970). Then Play On (Reprise, 1969). English Rose (Epic, 1969). Wonderful (Epic, 1968).

Mr. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (Blue Horizon, 1968).