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The Billboard Disco Convention: Disco Is Here To Stay

Report by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 11 October 1977

David Nathan reports from New York on the Billboard Disco Convention 1977. ...

Grace Jones: The New Dahling Of The Disco Set

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 22 November 1977

Jamaican-born Grace began as an actress and model in New York and Paris. Now she's fast building a reputation as Disco Queen. ...

Graceful Jones

Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 3 December 1977

SHE'S SIX feet of slinking black tigress, a red hot property amid the beautiful jet-setting people and a smart cookie to boot. Her name is ...

Grace Jones: Amazing Grace

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 12 September 1978

The Queen of the Dancefloors, the inimitable Grace Jones ...

Grace Jones: Fame

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 30 September 1978

THE INSTANT reaction is to scoff at someone as blatantly marketable as Grace Jones. An astonishingly beautiful model, she prompts writers to haul their most ...

Grace Jones: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1978

Grace Jones in an Exotic Pose ...

Grace Jones: Starplex Armory, Washington DC

Live Review by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 26 May 1980

HOW GRACE Jones spent Saturday night at the Starplex Armory building: one entrance, many exits for costume changes and not much show in between. ...

Grace Jones: New Wave for a Disco Diva

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1980

Grace Jones' new LP tailors the music to fit her flamboyant visual concepts. ...

Grace Jones: Warm Leatherette (Island ILPS9592)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, August 1980

THIS ALMOST defies weirdness. Grace Jones is an awfully tacky disco singer next to whom the B-52's women look tasteful. Warm Leatherette's musicians are reggae ...

The Devil in Ms Jones

Interview by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 23 August 1980

GRACE JONES asked for a massage. RONNIE GURR warmed the leatherette. ...

Grace Jones: This Year's Model

Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, 4 September 1980

Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...

Grace Jones: Confessions Of An Art Groupie

Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, October 1980

IN THE LOUNGE bar of the Kensington Hilton, Grace Jones sprawls supinely in a wicker armchair and digs her fingers under the leaves of lettuce ...

Grace Jones: The State Of Grace

Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 13 December 1980

GRACE JONES. Grace Jones is a nice lady who loves Japanese food. But how does the name Grace Jones figure in your code book? ...

Grace Jones: A Grace Apart

Interview by Paul Rambali, The Face, July 1981

Biographies of Grace Jnes used to describe her as the icy six-foot goddess of all that is perverse, decadent and nocturnal. Grace Jones was a ...

Grace Jones: In Between The Bumpers

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 25 July 1981

Chris Salewicz goes behind the public face of Grace to discover that in the tall, exotic frame of a former model there's a little girl ...

Grace Jones: The Savoy, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 22 August 1981

THE FANFARE hardly pronounced itself...when out folds a larger-than-our-life toy monkey with a grass skirt on its bandy thighs and a big tin drum, swinging ...

Grace Jones: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 9 October 1981

AN AMAZONIAN former mannequin of Jamaican extraction, Grace Jones has become the toast of the jeunesse dorée lately arisen from the ashes of late-Seventies punk ...

Grace Jones: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981

GRACE: UNFAVOURED ...

Grace Jones: Orpheum Theater, Boston MA

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 24 November 1981

Smiling along with Grace Jones ...

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall... What Aspect Of 1981 Does It Pain You Most To Recall?

Essay by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 19 December 1981

Overdressed twits taking Polaroids of one another in posey little clubs? Or the stern soapbox caterwauling of commentators who got themselves into a blue funk about everyone else's ...

Grace Jones: Orpheum Theatre, Boston MA

Live Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 21 January 1982

Amazing Grace ...

Grace Jones: Living My Life (Island 90018)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1983

GRACE NOTES FROM A CULT QUEEN ...

Grace Jones: Living My Life (Island)

Review by Laura Fissinger, Creem, March 1983

CLEARLY, WE are dealing here with a case of Persona, in this case as outsized as War And Peace. And static too — who, recently, ...

Grace Jones: Are You Ready For A Brand New (Disco) Beat?

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, April 1983

IF I WAS writing in Australia for Tie Yer Kangaroo Down rock mag, or in Germany for Ach Tung – Der March Goes On, or ...

Bond Age Woman: Grace Jones

Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 22 June 1985

First only a face, then an image, a singer and now a film actress, GRACE JONES has always been A Star. RICHARD COOK interviews her ...

Grace Jones: Slave To The Rhythm (ZTT)

Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 2 November 1985

THE SCENE: An unwashed and impolitely dazed Paul Morley stumbles into the ZTT offices one day. "But Trevor, the people are hungry for imagination, stimulation, ...

Grace Jones: Slave To The Rhythm (Manhattan)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1985

GRACE: EGO TO GO ...

The Producers: Wally Badarou

Interview by Chas de Whalley, International Musician & Recording World, February 1986

Wally Badarou gets together with Chas de Whalley and puzzles over their possible family relationship ...

Wally Badarou's All-World Keyboards

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, May 1986

The Synthesizer Star of Compass Point on Getting and Keeping International Feel ...

Grace Jones: Inside Story (Manhattan Records)

Review by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, January 1987

PEOPLE THINK of Grace Jones as a disco queen. People think of her as Conan the Barbarian's sidekick. As just another James Bond villainess. As ...

Inside Grace Jones

Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, February 1987

A Story About Film, Fashion and Fresh New Sounds. ...

Grace Jones: Ladies And Gentlemen, Disgrace Jones

Report and Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 9 December 1989

GRACE JONES is a living, laughing legend. She's wrestled with James Bond, battered Russell Harty, and now she's back once again to sit on the ...

Grace Jones: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 30 March 1990

THE GRACE Jones Experience could be described as long-awaited. The chap pressed up to the front of the stage certainly thought so. "Waiting three hours ...

Grace Jones: "Born To F*** — I should get a tee-shirt saying that"

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 7 April 1990

THE ICE QUEEN MAY BE MAKING A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO MELT HER IMAGE AND BECOME MORE FEMININE, BUT SHE WAS STILL HARD ENOUGH TO BURY ...

Grace Jones: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 7 April 1990

IT'S THE second of Grace Jones's first London shows for almost 10 years and everybody's hoping there won't be a repeat of the appallingly unprofessional ...

Grace Jones: Private Life - The Compass Point Sessions (Island)

Review by Amy Linden, Fi, 1998

OF ALL THE words that are over and misused, diva is surely at the top of the heap. Once an adjective related to describing the ...

Grace Jones: Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998

Pop's most formidable iconette of electro-dance ...

Various Artists: Funky Nassau - The Compass Point Story 1980-1986

Review by John McCready, The Word, April 2008

Imagined in London, bankrolled by pop hits and prog rock — the disco-dub collision at Compass Point Studios created shockwaves. ...

Grace Jones: Still a Slave to the Rhythm

Profile by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 June 2008

She's belted Russell Harty, beaten James Bond and brought the house down with her fashion sense. Now the inimitable Grace Jones is back at Meltdown. ...

Grace Jones: Hurricane

Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 November 2008

IN THE YEARS SINCE Grace Jones' last foray into recorded music, female artistes have increasingly been forced into major label-defined sonic and aesthetic roles, be ...

Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, December 2008

PLAYING BACK MY phone interview with Grace Jones, I notice that at the start of the transcript while I'm waiting for someone to pick up ...

Grace under pressure

Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 23 January 2009

The rigours of the road do nothing to cool the unexpected warmth of Grace Jones, says Sophie Heawood ...

Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold

Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 24 July 2009

The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival ...

Grace Jones: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 28 April 2010

FOR ALL OF its high production values, perhaps the most surprising thing about this one-off show was just how little it took to derail it. ...

Is Lady Gaga corrupting our kids?

Comment by Pete Paphides, The Times, 12 August 2010

Modern pop stars are corrupting the young, says pop veteran Mike Stock. But isn't that what they've always done? ...

Grace Jones: Hurricane

Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, 20 September 2011

ODD THAT TWO icons of dance music, Pet Shop Boys and Grace Jones, both had to wait years to get strong British albums released this ...

Interview: Trevor Horn

Interview by Simon Price, The Stool Pigeon, 2 February 2012

"That coldness; that precision": Simon Price meets the man who invented the '80s ...

Kelis, Grace Jones, Lana Del Rey, Chic, Friendly Fires et al: Lovebox Festival, Victoria Park, London

Live Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 18 June 2012

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Grace Jones et al.: Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Sussex

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 7 July 2016

Burt Bacharach, GoGo Penguin and Esperanza Spalding are other highlights ...

Richard Russell: Rich Pickings

Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, March 2018

As Richard Russell's collaborative album, Everything Is Recorded, is released, RC's Jamie Atkins meets him to talk about the recording and the music that led ...

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