The interviewer, David Frost, actually knew Grace very well. He died a few years ago. Grace would often go to his summer parties (a fixture of the summer in London for many years). Grace is one of the nicest people you could ever meet - that, along with her immeasurable talent, is why she has been 'around' so long! You will never meet anybody in the industry who does not like the woman!
you can really sense a mutual respect and understanding, none of the questions were sensational. Grace looks at ease without her usual defensive camp persona. very enjoyable to watch
Agreed. But loads of 80s people, particularly the women got awful ones. I've seen certain ones with my fave singer (Kim Wilde) & so many cretinous questions you wouldn't believe. If it was done now, it'd not be allowed, a pity cos the music biz has long been dead & it's full of talentless slags of both sexes who deserve hate thrown at them!
This woman...This LIVING LEGEND...She is ONE OF A KIND, there is NO ONE and I mean NO ONE like her. She is the ONE and ONLY...She is INCOMPARABLE. No matter how many times others try to duplicate her UNIQUENESS. Hail to the QUEEN 🌟Grace Jones🌟 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
This was a great interview & it shows that she's one of the most underrated artist ever! Grace should've been huge in the US yet never got her due there always ahead of her time what she did 40+ yrs ago is still being copied today and ppl are eating it up yet the ones who copy her never give her the credit she deserves and it's sad
I'm really surprised that she wasn't huge in the US. I didn't know that. Throughout the eighties and nineties she was an absolute icon here in Canada, still is actually.
They weren't ready for her here in the U.S. in the 70's. I first saw her on American Bandstand in the early 70's I was like 13. She was and is so unique I fell in love with her right away. I was from a small country town which I always hated, such narrow minded people and nothing to do. It wasn't until I moved to the west coast that I started to live and I have been to two of Grace's concerts and she was amazing. You're absolutely right she is underrated. She is probably more celebrated abroad.
I'm very impressed with this interview. I especially liked the part where she spoke about coming to accept & like her feminine side and WHY she felt the need to be "over-the-top" masculine. Most interviewers would never have thought to ask that question. Grace Jones scared me a bit when I was a kid. I guess it was the androgynous image she portrayed and her masculine side that confused/intimidated me. However, I've come to appreciate her beauty, art, fearlessness, boldness. She's quite charming, warm and funny. Obviously incredibly intelligent & wise. She has and is living the kind of life most of us WISH we could live. She went against the grain and did what SHE wanted to do. Once I begin watching footage of her, I realize how captivating and mesmerizing she is. You just go: "My God she's a goddess!". Imagine Grace being told she would NEVER get work in places like Paris back during the beginning of her career? Who can look at her & say "No".??? So she took matters into her OWN hands and created work for herself during an even more racist time than now in the fashion world. Grace is a LEGEND.
Grace leads the way and shows the light to the rest of us struggling to find something about ourselves . She liberated all those held prisoner in other people's rules of life.
She was really the most iconic black model of her generation. That crop of girls from the 70's that were so talented beyond being beautiful.....Grace Jones, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Hutton, René Russo, Jerry Hall, Iman Abdulmajid, Beverly Johnson.....just to name a few.
I can’t explain it but this is the most angelic I’ve ever seen her. Her makeup appears minimal, and the real Grace Jones shines through. She was right about the softer approach at this time. You can only be so sharp and bold for years on end before that wears you out eventually. Mind you - this is Grace Jones. “Soft” and “minimal” takes on a whole other meaning here.
I read somewhere a long time ago that it was her one-time husband, Jean-Paul Goude curated that "sharp and bold" persona. She, herself, said during the halcyon days of her career that taking on that persona was about taking the thing people most try to use against you - in her case her purported "androgyny" (which is really just her being ethnically African lineage in an industry dominated by European features and mannerisms) owning it, and turning it into an asset.
Being a nasty, narcissistic, sex-mad, gold-digging, toxic bitch from hell though works out wonderfully for Slagdonna the untalented though & it won't wear that old whore out as it's an utterly unnatural aberration, as is everyone's gamut from tolerance to devotion to it. No matter that effing c*** from beyond hell gets, everyone will love it cos they're as sad as she is! But seeing Grace's softer side is cool, as she's so scary. Before this interview began, I slightly shuddered at the guy doing it as they seem so ill-prepared for her personality.
Grace looks very beautiful in this interview. A badass. A fashion icon. A trendsetter that birthed influenced many such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga etc. Way ahead of her time. Black excellence🖤🇯🇲
I've never seen her with a hairstyle like that.I'm wondering if she didn't have time to see a hairdresser. She's kind of channeling -- to me --a young Dionne Warwick!!
I never thought of Grace Jones as androgenous. Perhaps naivete' on my part, looking back. I just always found her to be very attractive and this is the first interview/video where I have seen her (as also described by the host) as soft and feminine. She looks stunning in this interview and I look forward to digging up more "soft and feminine" videos of her. Not a fan of her singing but she truly is incredibly attractive.
Whatever.... just because Grace is stunning? Every country has its beautiful women but sadly that doesn't ever mean that every person from that particular country is beautiful. Can't believe you thought that it would be possible....unless you are a bit simple?
@@TravisBickle1963 Thank you for your reply. It's an unusual edition of Wogan, as I remember Frost announcing that Terry was ill that night, hence him not being there. Frost was called in at the last minute I recall. I was interested who the other guests were.
her education helped her be so amazing. its nice she rebelled but that core education made her so insanely smart. give your kids the ammo to be themselves then let them go. proof right here it works. big brain.
Grace (Everything future + Love) meets Wogan (Everything patriarchal + problematic). I've always loved how Grace is unphased by the unpleasantries of interviewers especially the white men, trying to crack whatever facade they feel is there.
@@sonjab1241 You are so right. She had the best female celeb body with curves in the right places which I envied and wanted. Surgery and fakeness is a bigger problem now and none of it is a patch on the 80s fashion models. You needed a few male traits to get on back in those days.
The term androgynous refers to a specific body type, which lacks in the pronounced features associated with either gender. That means neither rounded nor typically manly, ergo not typical of either gender but somewhere in between them.
@@AutumnWind92 yeah, I think Taura J may have been referring to older interviews, like the famous 1980 interview with that terrible excuse of a chat show host
You guys keep repeating it under every itw of Jones but actually most white male interviewers went along well with Grace. Why the generalization of a minority action ?
