Sharon O'Neill "Foreign Affairs" 1983

...“Tom Scott on sax on ‘Maxine’. One day we were missing a harmony on one track and John Boylan the producer said, ‘Hang on cutie’ as he used to call me and left the room and he came back with Don Henley. He just happened to be in the building and came in a sang the harmony and left and that was that. Totally gratis. That was unbelievable as I was such a fan of the Eagles. Karla Bonoff, Timothy B. Schmidt, Bill Payne. I could go on, wonderful people.”…

...O’Neill was a long way from LA when she got her first break in the NZ music scene. She lived at home in Nelson performing folk music until she was almost 20. In 1972 she moved to Christchurch to join 1960s legends Chapta for a few months and then briefly joined The Rumour in Auckland. “I think I was the token ‘let’s get a female in the band person’,” she told Real Groove.
In 1972 O’Neill released a single on Terence O’Neill-Joyce’s indie label Ode Records – two covers – 'Love Song' (Elton John) b/w 'Birds' (Neil Young). Once the singer settled in Wellington, Sharon O’Neill did session work at EMI’s Lower Hutt studio and was asked to sing cover versions of foreign hits on the Ready to Roll chart show that taped at TVNZ’s Avalon Studios.
When John McCready opened CBS Records' first NZ office in 1978, he was keen to develop a New Zealand roster of recording artists. In his online blog (Dec 28, 2009) he recalls discovering Sharon O’Neill while watching television…to be continued... - Audioculture

trax:

01. Danger 02. Maxine 03. One Of A Crowd 04. Radio Lover 05. Kids In Our Town 06. Losing You 07. I've Got You to Thank 08. Take the Fall 09. Hearts On The Run 10. All The Way Down 11. Silk Or Stone (Bonus) 12. Sweet Thing (Bonus)
…served by Gaius…