OK, let's split the room. Those who like Grace on this side, those who don't, on that side.
Me: this side - Tracy: that side.
We live in a house divided !!
This is the follow-up album to 'Nightclubbing' .. Grace's most successful studio release with songs like 'Walking in the Rain' and 'Pull Up to the Bumper' taking the lead.
'Living My Life' has 7 tracks, all written or co-written by Grace except one. The exception, by coincidence, is my favourite of all her songs.
'The Apple Stretching' was written by Melvin Van Pebbles and performed in his play 'Waltz of the Stork' Grace Jones makes it her own.
'It's just the apple stretching and yawning
Just morning
New York putting its feet on the floor'
Other tracks from the album include 'My Jamaican Guy' and 'Nipple to the Bottle', both of which get airplay.
As with a lot of album cover art, this one became iconic. Created by her then-partner Jean-Paul Goude it's a cut-out from an original photo with the addition of a piece of tape over her eyebrow.
Goude is quoted as saying about her .. “Men think she’s sexy. Women think she’s a little masculine and gays think she’s a drag queen.”
I could rave about a number of songs. 'Slave to the Rhythm', 'Love is the Drug' and the hypnotic 'Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician' as well as those mentioned above, but instead I'll include a link to the one I always go back to .. 'The Apple Stretching'.
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