Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover looks good; light scuffing, several creases and some surface impressions and tiny abrasions (front/back); discoloration spots on front. Inner-sleeve is original (photos/lyrics/credits); two seams partially split. Spine is somewhat readable with wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use and a few tiny tears. (Not a cut-out.)
A Private Heaven, by Scottish singer Sheena Easton, featured two US Top 10 hit singles: the sassy lead single Strut and the controversial Sugar Walls. A third single, Swear, reached No. 80. The album itself reached US No. 15 and sold over one million copies, earning a US RIAA Gold & Platinum certification. In Canada the album went Platinum. The album marked a conscious effort by Easton to change her image to that of a sexy pop singer after cultivating a "sweet and innocent" image since the launch of her career five years earlier. Easton collaborated with Prince on controversial track Sugar Walls, written by Prince under the pseudonym "Alexander Nevermind". The track and its accompanying video were banned in some regions due to its sexually risque lyrics and was one of several songs cited by Tipper Gore on her Filthy Fifteen list in her efforts to introduce mandatory warning labeling of explicit musical albums.