Prostitute is Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...

's 1988 album. It is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 and highly experimental in nature, marking a considerable divergence from previous works. It is uncompromising in its style, containing no obviously "radio-friendly" tracks.

The album was reissued on Toyah's own record label, Vertical Species, in 2003, together with its follow up album, Ophelia's Shadow. In the extensive sleeve notes she provided for the reissue, Willcox explains the gestation of the album, particularly the scrutiny her recent marriage to Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

 was under in the press, and the feeling that by the release of Desire, she had become, in her own words, "staid and predictable".

Track listing

1. "Hello" (Willcox)
2. "Prostitute" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
3. "Wife" (Willcox)
4. "The Show" (Willcox)
5. "Dream House" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
6. "Homecraft" (Willcox)
7. "Obsession" (Willcox)
8. "Let The Power Bleed" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
9. "Restless" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
10. "Falling To Earth" (Willcox)
11. "Jazz Singers In The Trees" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
12. "Vale Of Evesham" (Willcox)
13. "Ghosts In The Universe" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)

Personnel

• Toyah Willcox - vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Steve Sidelnyc - drums, keyboards, percussion
• Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
  - additional vocals on "Hello"