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In her 2015 autobiography, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, she explained: “Nile’s ear was different from mine, and he was responding to his idea of me, and it was an American Nile production, with all that entails, but I think it is beautiful. There were other ways of doing that material, but I like how it ended up. I don’t listen to all my records, but I play that one a lot.” Read more: Nile Rodgers interview Read more: Top 20 girlband singles of the 80s

Unsurprisingly, Muse was both her final disco album and last collaboration with Tom Moulton. Taking the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ approach here was a mistake. Muse was ignored by the record-buying public and, in some quarters, has now been labelled Jones’ ‘lost’ album. In 2009, Chris Cunningham produced a fashion shoot for Dazed & Confused using Jones as a model to create "Nubian versions" of Rubber Johnny. [90] In an interview for BBC's The Culture Show, it was suggested that the collaboration may expand into a video project. Jones also worked with the avant-garde poet Brigitte Fontaine on a duet named "Soufi" from Fontaine's album Prohibition released in 2009, and produced by Ivor Guest. B olstered by the critical and commercial success of Nightclubbing, the final instalment in Jones’ Bahamian trilogy finds her asserting herself as a songwriter in her own right. All but one of the songs – an ambitious seven-minute cover of The Apple Stretching from Broadway musical Waltz Of The Stork – are original compositions. Grace Jones". Montrealmirror.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012 . Retrieved 27 May 2012.

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Jones, Daisy (2 August 2018). "The Guide to Getting Into Grace Jones" . Retrieved 27 February 2020. Jamaican born R&B singer Grace Jones [ permanent dead link] Muse shines in its most unexpected moments, such as the testifying gospel of seven-minute epic Saved and organic funk of Atlantic City Gambler. Fisher, Mark (7 November 2007). "Glam's Exiled Princess: Roisin Murphy". Fact. London. Archived from the original on 10 November 2007 . Retrieved 23 November 2015.

Grace Beverly Jones OJ (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model and actress. [12] Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She notably worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features. However, she’s still to develop the formidable alien persona that she’d mine to such great effect throughout the 80s. When Keith Haring Painted the Heavenly Body of Grace Jones". Dangerous Minds. 30 January 2018 . Retrieved 19 October 2018. Alexis Petridis (13 November 2004). "Produced by Trevor Horn, Wembley Arena, London". The Guardian. UK . Retrieved 29 September 2010.She moved to New York at 18 and began a modelling career that took her to Paris where she worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaïa and Kenzo Takada and photographers such as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. While in Paris, she branched out into a recording career, first as a disco diva, working with Tom Moulton, before evolving towards a reggae / new wave sound created at Compass Point Studios with Sly & Robbie and marked by striking visuals created by her then partner Jean-Paul Goude. A One Man Show was first released in 1982 to promote the album Living My Life. The film was re-issued on VHS and LaserDisc by Island Records, PolyGram and Spectrum Music through the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1986, after the success of Jones' best-selling hit " Slave to the Rhythm", the film was re-released under the title State of Grace, then also including its promo video. [2] Through her relationship with longtime collaborator Jean-Paul Goude, Jones has one son, Paulo, born 12 November 1979. From Paulo, Jones has one granddaughter. [130] Jones married Atila Altaunbay in 1996. She disputes rumors that she married Chris Stanley in her 2015 memoir I'll Never Write My Memoirs, saying, "The truth is, I only ever married one of my boyfriends, Atila Altaunbay, a Muslim from Turkey." She spent four years with Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren, her former bodyguard; [133] she got him a part as a KGB officer in A View to a Kill (1985). [134] Jones started dating Danish actor and stuntman Sven-Ole Thorsen in 1990, and was in an open relationship as of 2007. [135] a b Furman, Anna (7 November 2016). "The Stories Behind the Photos on 6 Iconic Album Covers". Pitchfork . Retrieved 8 November 2016. Michael Osborn (26 November 2008). "An audience with Grace Jones". BBC News Online . Retrieved 11 January 2012.

Walking in the Rain" by Grace Jones". Sadclownrep.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014 . Retrieved 19 August 2012. T he peak of Jones’ Compass Point sessions, her fifth studio album is widely considered her greatest solo long-player, a perfectly realised artistic version that fully established her androgynous persona. Paulo Goude: Son of a Hurricane". Frank Veldkamp. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 4 February 2014. In the same year she was cast in the highly controversial Italian TV program Stryx, aired by Rai 2, where she portrayed the character of Rumstryx. [46] [47] [48] By now, after her Hollywood excursions and the odd controversial chat show appearance or two (Russell Harty received a slapping live on the BBC when he failed to pay enough attention to the star), Jones’ larger-than-life persona had become more famous than her music.Remastered version of A One Man Show with 3 bonus music videos, "Slave to the Rhythm", "Love Is the Drug" and "Crush" My childhood] was all about the Bible and beatings. We were beaten for any little act of dissent, and hit harder the worse the disobedience. It formed me as a person, my choices, men I have been attracted to... It was a profoundly disciplined, militant upbringing, and so in my own way, I am very militant and disciplined. Even if that sometimes means being militantly naughty, and disciplined in the arts of subversion.