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Global thing: Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (1980)



 
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created on: 17/09/2020
by: bob (9191)
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Performer :
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Properties :
Album
Music tags :
Dub
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New Wave
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Reggae
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Series / Storyarcs :
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Displayed (non textual) :
Person : Grace Jones
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Displayed (written) info :
grace jones
"WARM LEATHERETTE"
Originally released :
1980
Language - Artwork :
English
Tracks :
Disc/Track Title Duration
1
Warm Leatherette
4:26
Written By ( ) : Daniel Miller [D. Miller]
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2
Private Life
5:10
Written By ( ) : Chrissie Hynde [C. Hynde]
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3
A Rolling Stone
3:33
Written By ( ) : Duke Williams [D. Williams]
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Written By ( ) : Fritz Baskett [F. Baskett]
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Written By ( ) : Grace Jones [G. Jones]
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4
Love Is The Drug
7:11
Written By ( ) : Andy Mackay [A. Mackay]
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Written By ( ) : Bryan Ferry [B. Ferry]
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5
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
3:47
Written By ( ) : Smokey Robinson [Robinson]
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6
Bullshit
5:20
Written By ( ) : Barry Reynolds [B. Reynolds]
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7
Breakdown
5:30
Written By ( ) : Tom Petty [T. Petty]
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8
Pars
4:05
Written By ( ) : Jacques Higelin [J. Higelin]
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Credits :
Album Design : Jean-Paul Goude [Jean Paul Goude]
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Backing Vocals : Grace Jones
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Bass Guitar : Robbie Shakespeare
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Clothes By : Issey Miyaki
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Drums : Sly Dunbar
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Guitar : Barry Reynolds [Barry (White) Reynolds]
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Guitar : Mikey Chung [Michael (Mao) Chung]
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Keyboards : Wally Badarou
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Lead Vocals : Grace Jones
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Mixed & Produced By : Alex Sadkin
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Mixed & Produced By : Chris Blackwell
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Percussion : Uziah "Sticky" Thompson [Uziah (Sticky) Thompson]
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Photo : Jean-Paul Goude [Jean Paul Goude]
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Recording Engineer : Alex Sadkin
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Copyright Holder (p) : Island Records, Inc.
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Mixed & Recorded At : Compass Point Studios [Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas]
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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.
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Submitted by : bob (9191)
on : 17/09/2020