Description
Grace Jones Live in concert DVD 2010 London & New York City 1981 / Warm Leatherette, Feel up, Pull up to the Bumper, My Jamaican Guy, Crush / Immortal IMM940205
UPC 8712177056804
REGION 0 NTSC DVD (ALL REGIONS
MADE IN EU
AUDIO: English 5.1, English 2.0
TOTAL RUNTIME: 54 minutes
English Summary:
The astonishing Grace Jones, captured live - her most exciting mode - as well as in some famous music videos, all from the early 1980s.
These historic performances show Grace Jones coming into her own as a startling New Wave pop performance artist. The amazing fashion sense, the butch haircut, the statuesque physique, and the aggressive, sexual erotica - these are all here, as are Grace's hit songs, from the disturbing and riveting Warm Leatherette to her own composition My Jamaican Guy to Sting's Demolition Man and more.
Grace Jones influenced artists from Annie Lennox in the 1980s to Lady Gaga today. With the costumes and attitude that made her famous, the French-cabaret references, the sung-spoken lyrics, and the dangerous, confrontational sexuality, this is Grace Jones in her prime. A powerful collection - from one of the most unusual of pop icons.
This DVD contains a rarely seen concert from the model, actress and vocalist. On looks alone, Grace Jones has become an import part of our pop culture. More so than any model of her era, she proved that models could be strong and sensual instead of wispy, helpless and frail. Musically, she transcends genres, incorporating Pop, Disco, Reggae, New Wave and other styles into the mix. These live performances were taped in 1981while on tour promoting her album Nightclubbing. Her striking looks and ground-breaking music are perfect recipes for a feast for the eyes, ears, heart and soul...
Tracklist / Song list:
| 1 | Intro | 1:21 |
| 2 | Warm Leatherette | 3:29 |
| 3 | Walking In The Rain | 4:18 |
| 4 | Feel Up | 3:15 |
| 5 | La Vie En Rose | 5:59 |
| 6 | Demolition Man | 4:04 |
| 7 | Pull Up To The Bumper | 4:50 |
| 8 | Private Life | 2:17 |
| 9 | My Jamaican Guy | 3:34 |
| 10 | Living My Life | 4:20 |
| 11 | I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) | 4:18 |
| 12 | Slave To The Rhythm | 5:10 |
| 13 | Love Is The Drug | 3:15 |
| 14 | Crush | 3:21 |
Grace Jones - 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.
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.
Her first connection with music perhaps is her uncredited appearance on the cover of the 1973 reissue of Billy Paul - Ebony Woman.
She published her autobiography in 2015, I'll Never Write My Memoirs (a line taken from her song Art Groupie), co-written with Paul Morley, in which she comes back on her early childhood in Jamaica, denies some longstanding rumours and fuels a few new ones.
Grace is the granddaughter of Dan Williams (8), daughter of Marjorie Jones, sister of Bishop Noel Jones and Chris Jones (20), and mother of Paulo Goude.
