"I didn't invent an image. It just sorta grew on me, like a fungus or whatever it is. It was an extension of me. Well: I did say at seventeen, "I'm going to invent Dusty Springfield", but it was an extension of Mary O'Brien, convent schoolgirl. And I think that's what [Sheena]'s probably got, and there are too many people flashing around, saying "You gotta develop an image, kid!" I think that you know, singing and songs are the things that are the most important thing. An image comes when you present yourself to the public. And the public really kind of accepts you or they don't accept you. Trying to invent something that's not natural to you will be a disaster."
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As quoted in the episode "Sheena Easton - Pop Singer" from the BBC documentary series The Big Time (2 July 1980)
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Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose music career spanned from the 1960s to 1990s. She is credited as one of the preeminent singers of blue-eyed soul music and the first singer to introduce the Motown sound to the British audience on a Ready Steady Go! television special The Sound of Motown in 1965. Prior to starting her music career, she was a member of pop grou
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