- When For Your Eyes Only's theme song received an Oscar nomination, she performed it live on the night.
- First singer of a 007 theme song to appear in the opening credits - For Your Eyes Only (1981).
- Her song "9 to 5" was already a big hit in the UK, so when the song was released in America it went under the title "Morning Train" to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's recent hit of the same name.
- Earned the hits "For Your Eyes Only" (#4), "When He Shines" (#30), "You Could Have Been With Me" (#15), "Telefone (long Distance Love Affair)" (#9), "Modern Girl" (#18), "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers (#6), "Almost Over You" (#26), "Strut" (#7), "Do It For Love" (29), "Sugar Walls" (#9), "The Lover In Me" (#2), "What Comes Naturally" (#19), "U Got the Look" with Prince (#2) and "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" - her only hit to reach #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts.
- Naturalized U.S. citizen.
- The only act to appear in the Top Five on all of Billboard magazine's main charts: Country, Pop, Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, R&B/Hip Hop, Dance Airplay, and Dance Sales.
- She won two Grammy Awards, including one for Best New Artist in 1981.
- Two time Grammy Award winner
- To date (2009), Easton, Lulu and Shirley Manson are the only Scottish artists to have sung 007 title songs, respectively: For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) (as Garbage). Ironically, neither movie featured fellow-Scot Sean Connery as James Bond.
- Her hit song, "We've Got Tonight", with Kenny Rogers, went to #1 on the Billboard Country Charts.
- Inspired to pursue a singing career after seeing Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (1973), she later attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama while moonlighting with the group Something Else.
- Friends with Debra Winger.
- Robbie Williams mentions her in his song "Me and My Monkey".
- Headlining one-woman show in Las Vegas Hilton Night Club exclusively through December 2002. (February 2002)
- Two adopted children: Jake Rion Cousins Easton (B. 10/28/1994. Adopted in November) and Skylar (adopted in January 1996).
- Recorded an album of disco covers, 'Fabulous', in 2000 for Universal Records for the European market. It went top 20 in Spain and Estonia.
- Was Janet Tamaro's first choice for the role of Dr. Hope Martin in Rizzoli & Isles (2010) but she turned it down & the role was given to Sharon Lawrence.
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