| Pictures for Pleasure | ||||
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| Released | 1985 | |||
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| Length | 40:46 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Keith Forsey | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Pictures for Pleasure is the first studio album released by singer/guitarist Charlie Sexton in 1985. The album was the first solo effort by the then 16-year-old musician who had already secured a reputation as a skilled guitarist.[2]
Pictures for Pleasure combines Sexton's blues rock roots and the more commercially acceptable new wave genre. The album produced the Billboard Hot 100 #17 hit "Beat's So Lonely".
A poster reproducing the album cover appears on the wall of Ferris Bueller's bedroom in the 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[3] The song "Beat's So Lonely" was featured in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful, which was written and produced by Hughes.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Charlie Sexton: Pictures for Pleasure". Allmusic. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- ^ Bart Bull (May 1986). "Go, Charlie, Go". Spin Magazine.
- ^ Ahsan, Sadaf (21 January 2016). "Toronto's Gladstone Hotel recreates Ferris Bueller's bedroom". National Post. Retrieved 5 June 2024.