| Pictures for Pleasure | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Charlie Sexton |
| Cover: | Charlie Sexton-Pictures for Pleasure.JPG |
| Released: | 1985 |
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| Length: | 40:46 |
| Label: | MCA |
| Producer: | Keith Forsey |
| Next Title: | Charlie Sexton |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
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.[1]
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.[2] The song "Beat's So Lonely" was featured in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful, which was written and produced by Hughes.
Cash Box magazine said "With a rich and roaring vocal typical of Forsey's production, as well as some stinging guitar leads, Charlie Sexton is definitely a musician/performer to be reckoned with. Though still in his teens, the sound is fully mature and Sexton is primed for teen star status."[3]