Pictures for Pleasure

Pictures for Pleasure
Studio album by
Released1985
Studio
  • Conway (Hollywood, California)
  • Oasis (Canoga Park, California)
Genre
Length40:46
LabelMCA
ProducerKeith Forsey
Charlie Sexton chronology
Pictures for Pleasure
(1985)
Charlie Sexton
(1989)
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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.

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. The song "Beat's So Lonely" was featured in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful, which was written and produced by Hughes.