by Grace Jones
**PROMOTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL EXCESS LUGGAGE EXPENSES**
10. HOTEL—Purchaser is responsible for providing artist with rooming at five star hotel. Hotel must have 24 hour room service. Rooming requirements as follows: Six (6) Hotel rooms for three nights (the night of the show and the night before and after the show)
Grace’s room is to be a presidential suite, which MUST include:
(2) Large separate rooms
(2) Bathrooms
(24) HR Room Service
Full Spa facilities (steam room)
*Management’s approval of the hotel is required before booking*
11. PER DIEM to be provided upon arrival at Hotel. They are as follows:
€300 (EURO) a day for Grace Jones
€150 (EURO) a day for Crew
NO ONE IS ALLOWED ON STAGE DURING ANY PERFORMANCE, UNLESS PERMITTED OR INTRODUCED BY ROAD MANAGER!
At the edge of the Caribbean Sea. April 2015, Alligator Head, Port Antonio, Jamaica. (Greg Gorman)
Honeymoon in Bali, looking like it’s the 1950s, with my one and only husband, Atila. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
My mom’s mom, who we knew as Aunt Ceta, who raised me while my mom was in Syracuse, on her first visit to America. What a face! (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Invitation to my mom and dad’s 59th wedding anniversary in 2006. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
With brand-new Paulo at home in New York on 54th Street. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Great-grandmother Walters—we called her Ma—watering the garden in Spanish Town. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
It was arranged that photographs of the children would be sent to Mom and Dad in Syracuse every so often so that they could see us growing up. This one is taken in Spanish Town. Back row, L-R: Chris (then known as Patrick), and Noel. Front row, L-R: Pam, me holding a doll, and Max. We tried to smile to look as though we were happy, but that wasn’t always the case. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
A one-man show. A red curtain, an accordion, a minimal staircase, one leg up. Voila— theater! And a Grammy nomination. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
All Saints Church and All Saints School, together the center of my early life in Spanish Town, Jamaica. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
My supreme mom, Marjorie. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
A Jones family reunion, with Paulo at top left. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Ibiza in the 1980s, getting ready to head into the water or into outer space. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Hugging the High Priest—a Polaroid of me loving Timothy Leary at some point in time. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Lounging in a restaurant in New York, who knows when and where, dressed to solve a mystery. (John Carmen)
Acting natural in a 1970s disco setting wearing my specially designed Studio 54 New Year’s Eve Norma Kamali unitard. (John Carmen)
With Paulo, watching whales off the California coast, just after my breakup with Dolph. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
First lady of the church, my mom, Marjorie, and my dad, Bishop Robert Jones. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Bishop Walters and his wife, Zina, forever in their Sunday best. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Video shoot for “Living My Life,” where a passionate argument between me and Jean-Paul Goude becomes a song becomes an image. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
With Iman and friends. (John Carmen)
Model Naomi Campbell and Sven (my biggest boyfriend) celebrating my birthday at Stringfellows Nightclub, NYC. (John Carmen)
Me with Paulo and his dad, Jean-Paul Goude, at Paulo’s birthday party, November 2014 in Paris. (Sophie Christophe)
Standing with Angelo, my film double for many years, and Sara Douglas. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Performing in 2009 at the Island Records 50th anniversary show in London. A Philip Treacy hat that could lift me into outer space, and a Jean Paul Gaultier corset. I still wore Gaultier even after Madonna stole him from me years before! (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
Backstage with comedienne Sandra Bernhard at a gay benefit in New York. (John Carmen)
A quiet drink at the Studio 54 bar, a little overdressed. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
Using a New York rooftop as a stage, totally believing in myself, in 1981. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
With photographer Greg Gorman and crew at the photoshoot for the cover of this book. Alligator Head, Jamaica, April 2015. (Greg Gorman)
Backstage at the Heaven nightclub in London, 1985. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
Hugging genius—Polaroid of me loving Issey Miyake at some point in time in my Paris apartment. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Wearing Jean-Paul’s clothes, getting a little mixed-up, ready for the New York night. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
At my first Fashion Rocks appearance with Annie Lennox and a friend. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Christmas 2014 at Goldeneye, Jamaica. Four generations are pictured: Me, my mom, Paulo, and his daughter, Athena. (Grace Jones Private Life Collection)
Performing in London, 1984, giving great shape to the 1980s. (AdrianBoot/www.urbanimage.TV)
Acknowledgments
I’LL NEVER WRITE MY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . .
Mom, Dad, Chris/Patrick, Noel, Bev, Pam, Janet, Maxwell, Randy, Aunt Sybil, Hyanthe, Alison, Ma Powell, Aunt Ceta, Grandpa Dan Williams, Grandpa Pat Jones, Bishop Walters, his wife Zina, Mas P, Mas K, Sister Leah, Sister Bobsie, Aunt Sybil, Uncle Roy, Uncle Sidney, Uncle Easton, Uncle Randolph, Cousin Zeke/Norman, Cousin Marie, Cousin Wayne, Uncle Jacky, Cousin Jackie, the Cuban relatives, Spanish Town neighbors, Syracuse neighbors, church friends, church crushes, church singers.
Paulo and Athena.
Sam, Jean-Paul, Dolph, Sven, Chris, Atila.
Andy, Richard, Keith, Tom.
Chris Blackwell, Suzette Newman, Issey Miyaki, Eiko Ishioka, Francesca von Habsburg, John Carmen, Steve Newman, Raphael Santin, Toukie Smith, Natalie Delon, Azzedine Alaia, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kenzo Takada, Dennis Hopper, Luciano Pavarotti, Glenn O’Brien, Alex Sadkin, Tom Moulton, Trevor Horn, Bruce Woolley, Nile Rogers, Ivor Guest, Barry Reynolds, Mark Van Eyck, Frankie Crocker, Mark Jones, Timothy and Barbara Leary, Danny Huston, Cubby and Barbara Broccoli, Sophie Fiennes, Tony Moses, Chris Cunningham, Greg Gorman, Adrian Boot, Philip Treacy, and Russell Harty.
Taking care of business: Marjorie Grant of L.A., Eric of Ocho Rios, Vanja, Goran, Jane, Amber, and Brendan Coyle.
All my life sisters: Jerry—“Grace, honey, we’re in a hell of a rodeo”—Jessica, Mary, Patti, Efva, Antonio, Tara, Lulu, and Kate.
Studio 54 and the Hells Angels, Lion of Pantrepant and Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
Island Records 1977–1985, the Compass Point All Stars 1980–1982, and Wall of Sound 2008.
All those who made it into the book and this list and to those who didn’t but will next time; those who helped me get here on time one way or another; those along the way who captured the moment; those who help me write, sing, perform, and stage my songs; Jennifer Bergstrom, for asking me if I wanted to write a book; and the team at Gallery Books.
The 2009 Bordeaux vintage.
As told to Paul Morley, at the San Marco restaurant, somewhere on the waterfront between London, New York, Venice, Paris, Alligator Head, and Goldeneye, Jamaica.
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PAUL MORLEY
Elizabeth Levy, Madeleine Morley, Tricia, Nina, and Jeremie at Gallery Books, Jayne, Carol and Cairo, David Godwin, the North Wales relatives, Chris Blackwell, Suzette Newman, and, wherever she is, whatever the time . . . Grace Jones: “Paul, before we do some work, I need to go for a swim. I need to feel weightless.”
GRACE JONES has been making a name for herself as a performer, actress, and musician since she left Jamaica as a twelve-year-old in the 1960s. First findin
g fame as a fashion model in the early 1970s, then as a sensational disco queen during the Studio 54 years, she is as much surrealist as showgirl, as much performance artist as party animal. She has been a Bond villain and a Warhol confidante, a postmodern icon and an avant-garde pop star. I’ll Never Write My Memoirs is her first book.
Writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic PAUL MORLEY has written about music, art, and entertainment since the 1970s. He was a founding member of the electronic collective Art of Noise, and he first worked with Grace Jones as part of the team that produced “Slave to the Rhythm.”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Grace I’ll never write my memoirs / Grace Jones as told to Paul Morley. — First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
pages cm
1. Jones, Grace. 2. Models (Persons)—United States—Biography. 3. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. 4. Singers—United States—Biography. 5. Jamaican Americans—Biography. 6. Jamaica—Biography. 1. Title
CT275.J7515A3 2015
782.0092—dc23
[B] 2014038494
ISBN 978-1-4767-6507-5
ISBN 978-1-4767-6509-9 (ebook)