Nightclubbing [VINYL]

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Grace Jones at the Roseland ballroom in New York on New Year’s Eve 1987. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage 14. Warm Leatherette (1980) Muse, Jones’s third and final album with Moulton, was a commercial failure, but deserves reappraisal. Side one’s suite of songs offers a tougher and starker take on disco than its predecessors, while on the super-cool, reggae-influenced Atlantic City Gambler, the opening song of side two, you can distinctly hear the roots of what was to follow. 12. Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician (1987) After the commercial success of "Nightclubbing", Island Records reissued "Warm Leatherette" with new artwork, a picture of Grace Jones performing "Walking In The Rain", taken from her 1982 concert video " A One Man Show". The album includes mostly covers, of songs by The Normal, The Pretenders, Roxy Music, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Jacques Higelin, plus two original songs. Breathtaking pink-flouro screen-printed gatefold sleeve, printed on 300gsm pristine white Colorplan, featuring unique treatment of iconic Grace Jones image by creative collaborator and acclaimed artist Chris Levine.

Her first connection with music perhaps is her uncredited appearance on the cover of the 1973 reissue of Billy Paul - Ebony Woman.Album especially mastered for vinyl by the legendary Bob Ludwig in New York, and pressed on the peerless EMI 1400 in Hayes, Middlesex. Two 200-gram super-heavyweight vinyl records, containing Grace Jones' critically celebrated recent album, 'Hurricane', released on vinyl for the very first time

The newly-remastered deluxe editions, bringing together the entire Warm Leatherette album, b-sides and rare in-era mixes and instrumental versions. The physical formats available are as follows Working closely with acclaimed artist Chris Levine this edition has been hand crafted to the very highest standards by The Vinyl Factory in celebration of the new Grace Jones by Chris Levine exhibition ‘Stillness at the Speed of Light’, taking place at The Vinyl Factory gallery in Soho from April 30th to May 14th 2010. Featuring Grace Jones first new studio album for 19 years, pressed on vinyl for the first time anywhere in the world. The first album in her critically-lauded ‘Compass Point Trilogy’ saw Jones working with an all-star session group (rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, plus percussionist Uziah Thompson, along with keyboardist Wally Badarou, and guitarists Mikey Chung and Barry Reynolds) and leave ’70s disco well behind. 2CD deluxe edition

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Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s paean to seedy Berlin nightlife might have been written for Jones, a nightclub fixture throughout the late 70s and 80s. She squeezes every drop of decadence out of the lyrics, shifting the song’s rhythm from diseased glam stomp to eerie dub. 8. Nipple to the Bottle (1982) The first single from Jones’s masterpiece Nightclubbing was written by Sting – she’d requested a song from him, so he sent a demo for this, which the Police hadn’t got around to recording. It vanished without a trace, but its quality – boastful lyrics set to relentless Suicide-esque synths and guitar noise – is there for all to hear. 9. Nightclubbing (1981) Jamaican singer, actress and supermodel born on May 19, 1948 [some sources claim 1950 or 1952] in Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies. She moved to Syracuse, New York, in her early teens, where her parents had relocated and founded the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ.