| Video | | Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Live at NOS Alive 2019) | |
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| Performer : | | Grace Jones | |
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| Source : | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Leatherette_(album) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Leatherette_(album)) | |
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| : Barry Reynolds | Written By ( ) : Barry Reynolds | |
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| : Chrissie Hynde | Written By ( ) : Chrissie Hynde | |
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| : Tom Petty | Written By ( ) : Tom Petty | |
| Originally released : | | 1980 | |
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"WARM LEATHERETTE" | |
| Notes : | Warm Leatherette is the fourth studio album by Jamaican singer and songwriter Grace Jones, released on 9 May 1980 by Island Records. The album features contributions from the reggae production duo Sly and Robbie and is a departure from Jones' earlier disco sound, moving towards a new wave-reggae direction.
Although having established herself as a performer with a string of club hits in the US and a large gay following, Jones had only achieved very modest commercial success with her first three disco albums. For Warm Leatherette, Jones went through a musical and visual reinvention. The singer teamed up with producers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, and Sly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, aka the Compass Point Allstars, for a record that would be a total departure from disco and an exploration of new wave music, blending reggae and rock. Warm Leatherette was the first of three albums recorded at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. According to John Doran of BBC Music, Warm Leatherette is a "post-punk pop" album that, "delved into the worlds of disco, reggae and funk much more successfully than most of her 'alternative' contemporaries, while still retaining a blank-eyed alienation that was more reminiscent of David Bowie or Ian Curtis than most of her peers." David Bowie influences were also noted by Joe Muggs of Fact.
The album includes covers of songs by The Normal, The Pretenders, Roxy Music, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jacques Higelin. Blackwell intended to make a record with "a harsh sound that was heavy with Jamaican rhythm". For Jones' version of "Breakdown", Tom Petty specially wrote a third verse for the song. The album also includes one song co-written by Jones, "A Rolling Stone", and one French track, "Pars" (French for "Leave"), a reggae re-imagining of Jacques Higelin's song. "Pull Up to the Bumper" was also recorded during the sessions for Warm Leatherette, but its R&B sound was found not fitting in the rest of the material and so it appeared on Jones' next album, Nightclubbing in 1981.
The vinyl LP release of the album included shorter, 7" versions of some of the songs, due to limited capacity of the vinyl format. Most compact disc editions included extended 12" mixes of selected tracks that had originally appeared on the single-sided chrome audio cassette.
Warm Leatherette charted only in Australia, the UK and the US. Although it remains one of the least successful Grace Jones albums in terms of sales and chart performance, it holds the credit for being her breakthrough record in the UK. It is also one of the highest-rated of all her studio releases.[7][ | Warm Leatherette is the fourth studio album by Jamaican singer and songwriter Grace Jones, released on 9 May 1980 by Island Records. The album features contributions from the reggae production duo Sly and Robbie and is a departure from Jones' earlier disco sound, moving towards a new wave-reggae direction.
Although having established herself as a performer with a string of club hits in the US and a large gay following, Jones had only achieved very modest commercial success with her first three disco albums. For Warm Leatherette, Jones went through a musical and visual reinvention. The singer teamed up with producers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, and Sly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, aka the Compass Point Allstars, for a record that would be a total departure from disco and an exploration of new wave music, blending reggae and rock. Warm Leatherette was the first of three albums recorded at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. According to John Doran of BBC Music, Warm Leatherette is a "post-punk pop" album that, "delved into the worlds of disco, reggae and funk much more successfully than most of her 'alternative' contemporaries, while still retaining a blank-eyed alienation that was more reminiscent of David Bowie or Ian Curtis than most of her peers." David Bowie influences were also noted by Joe Muggs of Fact.
The album includes covers of songs by The Normal, The Pretenders, Roxy Music, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jacques Higelin. Blackwell intended to make a record with "a harsh sound that was heavy with Jamaican rhythm". For Jones' version of "Breakdown", Tom Petty specially wrote a third verse for the song. The album also includes one song co-written by Jones, "A Rolling Stone", and one French track, "Pars" (French for "Leave"), a reggae re-imagining of Jacques Higelin's song. "Pull Up to the Bumper" was also recorded during the sessions for Warm Leatherette, but its R&B sound was found not fitting in the rest of the material and so it appeared on Jones' next album, Nightclubbing in 1981.
The vinyl LP release of the album included shorter, 7" versions of some of the songs, due to limited capacity of the vinyl format. Most compact disc editions included extended 12" mixes of selected tracks that had originally appeared on the single-sided chrome audio cassette.
Warm Leatherette charted only in Australia, the UK and the US. Although it remains one of the least successful Grace Jones albums in terms of sales and chart performance, it holds the credit for being her breakthrough record in the UK. It is also one of the highest-rated of all her studio releases. | |
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| : Smokey Robinson | Written By ( ) : Smokey Robinson | |
| Tracks : | | Grace Jones _ Warm Leatherette _ Cover.jpg | |
| : Daniel Miller | Written By ( ) : Daniel Miller | |
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| : Bryan Ferry | Written By ( ) : Bryan Ferry | |
| : Andy Mackay | Written By ( ) : Andy Mackay | |
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| : Jacques Higelin | Written By ( ) : Jacques Higelin | |
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| : Fritz Baskett | Written By ( ) : Fritz Baskett | |
| : Grace Jones | Written By ( ) : Grace Jones | |
| : Duke Williams | Written By ( ) : Duke Williams | |
| Displayed (non textual) : | - : | Person : Grace Jones | |
| Language - Artwork : | | English | |
| Copied Wikipedia parts under license : | | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| Credits : | | Mixed & Produced By : Alex Sadkin | |
| Credits : | | Recording Engineer : Alex Sadkin | |
| Credits : | | Guitar : Barry ReynoldsBarry (White) Reynolds | |
| Credits : | | Mixed & Produced By : Chris Blackwell | |
| Credits : | | Mixed & Recorded At : Compass Point StudiosCompass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas | |
| Credits : | | Lead Vocals : Grace Jones | |
| Credits : | | Backing Vocals : Grace Jones | |
| Credits : | | Copyright Holder (p) : Island Records, Inc. | |
| Credits : | | Album Design : Jean-Paul GoudeJean Paul Goude | |
| Credits : | | Guitar : Mikey ChungMichael (Mao) Chung | |
| Credits : | | Drums : Sly Dunbar | |
| Credits : | | Percussion : Uziah "Sticky" ThompsonUziah (Sticky) Thompson | |
| Credits : | | Keyboards : Wally Badarou | |
| Credits : | Orchestra Directed By : | Clothes By : Issey Miyaki | |
| Credits : | Bass : Robbie Shakespeare | Bass Guitar : Robbie Shakespeare | |
| Credits : | - : | Photo : Jean-Paul GoudeJean Paul Goude | |
| Properties : | | Album | |
| Music tags : | | Reggae | |
| Music tags : | | Dub | |
| Music tags : | | New Wave | |
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