GRACE JONES Warm Leatherette LP 1980 DJ Promo Sly & Robbie Love is the Drug

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GRACE JONES Warm Leatherette LP 1980  DJ Promo Sly & Robbie Love is the Drug
My favorite of Jones recording Sly & Robbie give it the edge that Grace needed.
"Warm Leatherette" is the fourth studio album by Grace Jones, released in May 1980. Her first album recorded at Compass Point Studios, it features contributions from the reggae duo Sly & Robbie and marks a dramatic change in sound, dropping the disco of her first three albums in favour of new wave and reggae.
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.
"Warm Leatherette" was the first Grace Jones album with cover art designed by her then-boyfriend, Jean-Paul Goude. The initial release featured a black and white photograph of Grace Jones pregnant, wearing an Issey Miyake dress.
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".

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."[1] 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's 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. "Bullshit" is an original by Barry Reynolds. Reynolds would later write or co-write several tracks for Jones: "Art Groupie", "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)", the entire B-side of the Living My Life album, and "Well Well Well". "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's next album, Nightclubbing in 1981.