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''Warm Leatherette'' is the fourth studio album by Grace Jones, released on 9 May 1980 through 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. ==Background== Although having established herself as a performer with a string of club hits in the USA 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. She 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. The album included 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World Of Grace Jones )〕 Sly Dunbar revealed that "Warm Leatherette", the first song on the album, was also the first to be recorded with Jones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World Of Grace Jones )〕 For Jones' version of "Breakdown", Tom Petty specially wrote a third verse for the song. The album included also 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pull Up to the Bumper by Grace Jones Songfacts work=www.songfacts.com )〕 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 the UK and the USA. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Jones )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Films and Music by Grace Jones )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warm Leatherette (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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