Madness, Money And Music

 

Nice clean vinyl with good cover and inner sleeve.

Madness, Money & Music is the third album by singer Sheena Easton. It was released in 1982 and produced by Christopher Neil. The album includes the singles "I Wouldn't Beg for Water" (US #64) and "Machinery" (US #57, UK #38), as well as the UK single "Are You Man Enough". Significantly however, the album featured an early recording of the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", which would later be covered by Bette Midler in 1988 and many other artists after. The album was one of Easton's lower-charting efforts, only hitting US #85 and UK #44, but was more successful in Scandinavia and went Gold in Canada. Easton promoted the album by way of a half-hour special produced for British television and syndicated worldwide, during which she performed a number of songs from the album and embarked on her first world tour.

A CD reissue in 2000 added the bonus tracks and B-sides from One Way Records.

On February 23, 2013, Edsel Records (UK) reissued Easton's "You Could Have Been with Me" & "Madness, Money and Music" in two compact disc packages remastered with bonus tracks.

On November 24, 2014 the album was included in an Original Album Series box set in the UK with all of Easton's first five albums with EMI through Warner Music Group, which now owns the rights to all of EMI's back catalogs.