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Grace Jones

November 2023

  • ‘I’m not trying to be the best. I just want it to be magic’ … Wally Badarou

    ‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

    His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

October 2023

  • From left: work by Bianca Saunders, Ann Lowe (pictured seating) and Sindiso Khumalo

    Now you see me: the Black fashion designers overlooked by history – in pictures

  • Stop Making Sense

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest concert films – ranked!

April 2023

  • Sophie Fiennes directs her brother Ralph on the set of Four Quartets

    ‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK

  • ‘Entirely lovely’ … Bob Marley shot by Jill Furmanovsky in London, 1978.

    ‘I had a reckless feeling of destiny’: photographer Jill Furmanovsky on Blondie, Bob Marley and rock’s boys’ club

October 2022

  • ‘It was stupid not to let Frankie Goes to Hollywood play on Relax’ … Horn at home, in the house formerly owned by Bob Hoskins.

    ‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits

    From Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Grace Jones, ABC and Tatu, he gave pop some of its greatest, most forward-looking moments. He also sang for prog rockers Yes. The trailblazing knob-twiddler recalls his best – and worst – decisions

September 2022

  • Grace Jones in a black dress, black gloves and black hat, her head on one side with wild staring eyes

    This much I know
    Grace Jones: ‘Even if I stand on my head, I still can’t do it. How these young girls twerk, I don’t know’

    The actor and singer, 74, tells Rich Pelley about working as a go-go dancer, hanging out with Keith Haring, dropping LSD in the 60s and missing out on Blade Runner

July 2022

  • Beyoncé at the 2021 Grammy awards.

    Beyoncé returns with Renaissance: a play for the mainstream and a strike against perfectionism

    The musician’s seventh album is seemingly shooting for cultural saturation while celebrating norm-defying musicians and workers

June 2022

  • Florence Shaw of Dry cleaning and Oumou Sangaré performing at Meltdown festival.

    Dry Cleaning; Oumou Sangaré review – stars of Grace Jones’s Meltdown

  • Grace Jones in silk top hat, black dinner jacket, with white stripes on face and white cogwheels painted on her skin possibly

    Grace Jones review – eerily unchanged artist has us all slaves to her rhythm

April 2022

  • Walk this way … Abbey Road 1969

    Wrappers delight: The best album cover shoots – in pictures

  • A composite picture of Paul Verhoeven, Sharon Stone, Joe Eszterhas, Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, a still from Starship Troopers and some tiramisu

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Paul Verhoeven’s convent romp to the Sopranos?

July 2021

  • Mario and Melvin Van Peebles.

    Blaxploitation salvation: the directors’ children rescuing their fathers’ lost movies

    Melvin Van Peebles and Perry Henzell made seminal 70s films – now their kids have recovered their fathers’ would-be classics

May 2021

  • The Klinaklini Glacier in Canada. A recent study has suggested that glaciers around the world are collectively losing around 267bn tonnes in mass every year.

    Brief letters
    Cold truths about vanishing glaciers

    Brief letters: Losing glaciers | India’s Covid statistics | Singing blackbirds | Prime minister’s answers | Graces Jones’ perfect song

April 2021

  • Grace Jones in Chicago, 1978.

    Ranked
    Grace Jones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • Roger Moore in A View to a Kill – the pinnacle of Moore and therefore the pinnacle of Bond.

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why A View to a Kill isn't a bad movie

September 2020

  • Richard Bernstein. Grace Jones Mask for Warm Leatherette, 1980. The Estate of Richard Bernstein

    Grace Before Jones review – a peek behind the mask of megastardom

    A fascinating look at the many faces of a model who has posed as warrior, diva and ballerina – and fought her way to the top

June 2020

  • Grace Jones by Tim Bret-Day, 2010

    Grace Jones, Jagger, Gaga and more music legends – in pictures

    From Bowie outtakes to early shots of Rihanna and Amy Winehouse, these rare prints are being sold to support the entertainment industry during Covid-19 and fight racial injustice

May 2020

  • ‘For Allen, music was the most important message, always’ ... Tony Allen.

    Tony Allen: the Afrobeat maverick who blazed a trail across the globe

    The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated until the end

April 2020

  • Grace Jones

    Listener's digest
    Grace Jones: where to start in her back catalogue

    In Listener’s Digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Today: the strident, sensual, muscular disco, funk and pop reggae of Grace Jones
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