Grace Jones

The Billboard Disco Convention: Disco Is Here To Stay

Report by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, September 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, 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. ...

Grace Jones: Amazing Grace

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

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

Grace Jones: Fame

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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: This Year's Model

Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, September 1980

Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...

Grace Jones: Confessions Of An Art Groupie

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Face, The, 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, NME, 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

Interview by Paul Rambali, Face, The, July 1981

Born in Spanishtown, Jamaica, the daughter of an eminent clergyman, Grace Jones moved to Syracuse in upstate New York at the age of 12. A ...

Grace Jones: In Between The Bumpers

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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, NME, 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: 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, NME, 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, NME, 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: Ladies And Gentlemen, Disgrace Jones

Report and Interview by David Quantick, NME, 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 Push, Melody Maker, 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 ...

Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones

Interview by John Doran, Stool Pigeon, The, 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 ...

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

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

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