Grace Jones

‘Every night was Halloween’ – how one ‘camera girl’ captured the madcap style of 80s New York

Grace Jones, David Bowie and Debbie Harry feature alongside lesser known dancers in Sharon Smith’s Polaroids of the city’s club scene, where dressing up was your passport into the creative world

Ellie Violet Bramley

31, Dec, 2024 @6:00 AM

From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury and Madonna snogging Britney: 41 era-defining music photos

Icons, rock stars – and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world

Alexis Petridis, Michael Cragg and Gabrielle Schwarz

28, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM

Beauty and the beat: why do so many models shoot for pop stardom?

Sam Fox managed it – but Naomi Campbell didn’t. As Paris Hilton assails ears with a new album, we look at the chequered history of models in pop, from Grace Jones to Kim Kardashian

Shaad D'Souza

06, Sep, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘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

Jim Butler

20, Nov, 2023 @12:14 PM

The 20 greatest concert films – ranked!

As Taylor Swift’s Eras tour reaches cinemas, with Beyoncé’s Renaissance following soon, we pick the films that best converted the live experience to the screen

Alexis Petridis

12, Oct, 2023 @2:00 PM

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

Exclusive: Directors struggle to fund work because of risk-averse commissioners and lack of resources, she says

Dalya Alberge

24, Apr, 2023 @1:47 PM

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

From a snarling Debbie Harry to a radiant Amy Winehouse, Furmanovsky reveals the layers of her complex subjects. She explains how she conquered her shyness to tour with Pink Floyd aged 19 and why music has a ‘grounding’ quality

Harriet Shepherd

13, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘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

Alexis Petridis

24, Oct, 2022 @4:09 PM

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

Rich Pelley

17, Sep, 2022 @1:00 PM

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

Michael Cragg

28, Jul, 2022 @9:13 AM

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

The deadpan London post-punk band and the gloriously danceable Malian musician offer a delicious contrast early in the festival

Kitty Empire

18, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM

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

Royal Festival Hall, London
Stylish and commanding, Grace Jones retains perfect poise in this strong show – even during a hula-hooping wardrobe malfunction

Alexis Petridis

12, Jun, 2022 @11:19 AM