Grace Jones - The Russell Harty Show interview + Love is the Drug 

Perfect for a model

That’s so beautifully put

How big was she

@@CyprusHot As a musician, she was as big as Madonna in her prime, or Lady Gaga depending on your age.

@@oneofyou6773 was she really? From what I heard Grace was always very underrated in popular culture, idk if she was ever as much of a big name as Madonna or Gaga

@@luigiiodice3517 IMO she rivaled or exceeded Madonna's popularity in the late-70s to mid-80s in pop and disco. Grace's star faded in the late 80s while Madonna took it to another level, particularly with the song Vogue and popularizing "voguing". In the 90s Madonna kept going and also proved to be a more successful actress than Grace (but Jone's acting credits would surprise many). Madonna, a dancer, also took her choreography to another level, becoming a stellar performer. Grace, a model, didn't perform as much, but usually shocked with daring outfits and was always interesting to watch. Underrated, I don't think so. I actually used to think she was overrated, because though she could sing, she had very limited range, yet for-a-minute kept coming out with hits. She had a unique sound, was a style icon and was a visual phenomenon, an enigma, eccentric as well as being decidedly androgynous, before it was acceptable. Misunderstood, would probably be more fitting. She was/is an "artist".

She was right

yes yes yes

Yeah right

Jealous that she assaulted him ? Weirdo

Nah, she definitely commanded respect. 48 laws of power. She was controlling the room and it made him emotionally unstable

@@adriantoogenuine No. she was being weird and difficult

@@NashvilleTuneStream and?

Grave Jones was born to be a Provocative Masterpiece of a Human Being.

She seems somewhat lost

What?

They were so intimidated by the strong Jamaican woman that they feel they had to belittle her and it didn’t work! Blood clots!!!!!

@@derekatkinson4674 hahaha bomboclaats

@@matimus100 how?

I think it was just as bad at the time, so it hasn't aged at all really.

I wouldn't either. He was not worthy to sit next to her. He was nobody, I'm sure.

Oof! Tell me about it! She’s gorgeous! ❤️😍❤️

That's what I say. Nest cheekbones ever.

Grace was sweet as a Diva always is and he's got, what he very well deserved!!. She was tired,(it was very easy to recognize it) travelled far and was modeling and shooting for the last three days...then she asked him not to turn his back on her and he kept on doing it. Good for you Grace!.

If he had just swapped chairs and seat his guest like Graham Norton does there might not have been a problem.

He was being patronising towards her, "she" has a name.

What a 'switched on lady'!

@@suzannerossiter1682 agree.

One of the sexiest and most amazing performances I’ve seen of hers! ❤️❤️

Isnt this the guy she smacked rhe shit out of when he turned to tlk to the other guy?😂😂😂 I loved her growing up she fked w them keeping them on their toes, so glad born in 75, got to be kid and teen in 80s 90s now its just sad. We are Jones and I named my Dog Grace from Peaky Blinders loved the name, I say she's grace jones but noone gets it sad. Im like look her up she was wild! I saw her on Chatty man, older still fantastic and must be such a great fun grandma imagine Grace Jones and her stories she has! Lol ❤❤😂

Oh FGS what the heck? People born in the 90s have no idea how people were free before their time, because they are too busy being totally disrespectful, patronizing, condescended, erasing history, and they do not realize that, what a a shame not have lived through that time when ANYONE had the room to make of themselves ANYTHING they wanted with nobody breathing down their neck, even stand for themselves like GJ did here, and even if a chunk of nobodys out there was doing that criticizing being a jerk, our generation was braced enuff to stand up for ourselves, we had room and freedom to carry, it was regenerating to show our strength as individuals, not like today to bitch about everything! BTW just for the record being androgyny ( or being yourself) was not invented pre or post millenium only weaponized (identity poltics)! Nobody 's fool! JS

see Russell Farty's interview with David Bowie - it's truly awful.

She's just weird!

I used to know a guy who went to school with her back in JA. He said she was exactly the same as a teenager.

She herself said that she was high, tired and did not know how cope with that. So she finally got aggressive.

@@guillandanthony711 Not true, she said that he was rude from the very start, so she popped him. She didn't do it hard either, just to be as disrespectful as he was, not harm him.

@sandpiper9288 with a superiority complex?

@@guillandanthony711 No, they were just wet, intimidated, boring ass clowns and she was years ahead of them, powerful, statuesque and an Icon.

@@guillandanthony711 should she have had to cope with his overt racism and snide sexist comments?

It's tongue in cheek in a very British way. People from other countries don't understand that, but Grace did.

He's anything but dull. He was a provocative interviewer to everyone.

That was my thought as well :)

Yes. I agree.

I've seen Tori Amos do the same thing. Strong women don't tolerate being talked down to.

How was he supposed to talk to the other guests without turning his back on her?

She’s being a high diva, it’s funny but glad it’s him

Russell Harty was a bit of a knob, granted, but she was also being difficult and very immature.

@@ajs41 Move his chair back. Have the guests on one side. Why is this a mystery to you? 🙄

After this amazing moment every chat show made sure the host was not turning their n]back on a guest ,,,another magic moment that grace changed the world ,just like private life drama changed disco

lol!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh cmon give her a fair go

It's called jet lag. Get out more.

I’m never usually one to assume someone is high but she seems annoyed, tired, bored and high lmfaooo

@@GregoryCurtisRogersPark you're delusional lmao, she's zonked.

Yes I agree

Neither do I. She's too strange to be interesting.I'm not surprised he suspects she's drugged up.

He was just so rude, he made every assumption about her mannerism and conversation etiquette. All because why? Yes, he was absolutely intimidated by the forever beautiful Grace Jones 🖤

@@elkpaz560 you’ve never met an interesting person before?

Writing about the incident in her autobiography, she blamed the outburst on a combination of bad coke, hallucinations, and being covered in pigeon excrement. She penned: 'Bad coke was the last thing I wanted before I went on a live television show. The purest form, maybe, but anything else was not going into my body. 'I was meant to sit next to Russell Harty and keep still and quiet. I was all dressed up like an Amazonian seductress, and treated like the hired help. I thought, "This is no way to treat a guest." This wasn’t at all like what we’d rehearsed. 'Being stuck there while he ignored me made me feel very uncomfortable. I felt I was provoked. I was feeling exhausted, had no idea where I was, and was coated in pigeon s**t; now it seemed I was hallucinating that I was on a live chat show and the host was ignoring me. P***ed off, I poked him in the back.'

Yes!

Moving his chair back after she said not to turn his back on her should have been an obvious solution. She had to tell him to do it after reiterating multiple times not to turn his back on her. Dude's a disrespectful douche.

Hang on - she seems to want the entire show to be about her. Every time he tries to talk to someone else, she doesn't like it. Isn't that a bit rude? Expecting other guests not to be interviewed.

I said the exact same thing to my partner then only show you the mad 'Black Woman" but never show the reason for the reaction !

@@ajs41 Who were the other guests? Nobodies.

I know that this is a year late, but like the first reply said, there is no excuse for the back turning. Grace said that when they were in the initial rehearsal before the show, Harty faced her, but when they all came back and the show began, he turned his chair so that he was no longer facing her, excluding her from the group. But yeah, this guy was a fucking racist dick.

Ahem. Having re-read the book, Grace actually said that she refused the bad coke she was offered before this show.

I hope Mr Harty learned a valuable lesson - when you treat someone like they are a naughty child, don't be surprised when they behave like a naughty child.

@@lewisclark1122 Well he was a school teacher.

+Anon B Grace Jones was not some "bad students" he can "discipline" by talking down to her ... you don't treat adults like they are bad kids who needs discipline, you have to have some tact with people like Grace, she holds herself with a lot of high esteem and would not tolerate the slightest hint of condescension, not everyone have the power and stamina to carry Grace's kind of self confidence so when you meet someone like her you have to really be o your toes not to overstep the boundaries she created or she'll eat you up and spit you by the way side ... unless of course you have as strong a character as she does ...

@@88feji agreed the only other female artist of Grace's ilk imo is Nina Hagen. I wonder if they have ever met? I'd love to see them meeting if not

Looked like it was amazing.

Yeah but they ran out of time🤬

It’s awesome cover of Roxy Music

@@gwilson4907 Running out time is for people that can't claim a second and turn it to an Icon status. That lite time showed us what a fabulous woman and a great singer she was.

Russell Harty talked to everyone like this, not just Grace.

@@ajs41 yes, he was a jerk on the regular

@@ajs41 Crazy that someone like him got his own talk show on TV. Really odious man if this is how he talks to everyone.

@@ajs41 Well, he realized that night there are someone people you can't talk to this way and he looked like boring old clown.

She clapped the man in his head yano😅😅😅 listen don't play with a jamaican woman.

When they started rolling the credits, I was like 'what the f-'... Soooo rude and unprofessional of them. DAMN.

Rolling the credits like that was normal in those days.

Totally they always cut off the song and used the artist for closing and running the credits back then. She stomped him lol they were laughing when she was tapping him lol

Totally spaced out

@@matimus100 Totally Iconic

Her answers made him look like a chump yet he was gaslighting her

She was high, why show up high to an interview

@@ariela_ contractual obligation

You’d probably have to get high to get through this with this clown lol

He should have got her drink over him 🍷😂✌️

😅😅😅 just clap the man in his head top lol she don't play.

And she wasn’t at all bothered because she isn’t a ‘ victim ‘ ! it was a benign comment in the midst of awkwardness - not at all an ‘attack’. People wern’t so her up then as they are now - clambering to be offended, feel ‘objectified’ ( as if their so very important) or offer themselves up as ‘victims’ - and it literally wasn’t a ‘pun’ anyway !! Merely a slightly awkward comment stating the very obvious fact that she is black! Jesus help us !!

@@leesawford Elijah, if you wished racism was still tolerated just say that :’(

Yes omg it was pretty uncalled for

This was a typical Russell Harty interview. He was like this with everyone.

This made me happy

I think Harty is clinically braindead in this interview!!! LOL!!!

Deeply repressed soul - as yucky as this interview was, (it angered me) I kinda feel for the guy.

@@ajs41 Why did he even have an interview show in the first place? Was he connected or something? He seems pretty unappealing, personality wise.

Lmao

Hahahahahaha. Really, the old man with blue eyeshadow and suit was something else.

Exactly. I was waiting on this comment

Comment of the week lol..

This!!!!

I concur!👍

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I'm wit you here. WE NEED MORE!

So was I, sound really good live : (

My thoughts exactly. Looked like she was killing it.

@@jeanniesgems7662 And after having been deprived of sleep for three days!

IKR

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Of course he was. He was a prudish bore full of ignorance.

This guy was just rude and provocative for the sake of being it. See his interview with Bowie and I wonder if he didn't do the sex pistols too?

@@fabienh3943 - That was Bill Grundy on the Today show (he does look kind of similar to Russell Harty). Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols absolutely destroyed Grundy on Live TV!

he died

He got diseases from fucking rent boys.

Shaun Wapples really

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I think that's probably true. She was not acting normally, but then that's why we love her :) Weird but legit.

Incoherently sure

You are absolutely correct! I can't believe anyone would defend her behavior!!?

I bet y’all are both white

@@sokhnaaaa oh you already know they are, with that white bread comment. When this incident happened, there where people in the audience who said that she didn’t do enough; they said that she should’ve beat his ass to a pulp, because he has the habit of disrespecting his guests!

Are you serious? Dude was being straight up disrespectful with every question. Also, you don't know what he said or did before the cameras started rolling. Grace seemed like she was fed up with him from the start, so my only guess is he was being a bigoted a-hole prior to the show starting. Let's remember this was 1980s British television, when interviewers would get away with all types of inappropriate behavior and questions. Grace wasn't having any of it.

ALL HAIL GRACE

Harty was rude to half his guests. He did an awful interview with Bowie over a satellite link too.

Yes I am watching it now and his attitude is shocking! Imagine Victoria Beckham faced with that kind of hassle on live TV. It just wouldn't happen.

You wouldn't pick up on it at the time because were just more used to it back then. Middle aged white men were just condescending in general, especially to women, and especially to black women, and especially to black women from another country. He had nothing but disdain for her despite the fact she was a global star and he was a tiny little talk show host. Thankfully times have moved on. A reaction like that today from someone in Grace's position would be heralded and the host would be made to apologize, rather than in those days when it was made out to be her being crazy. How much belittling and condescension is one expected to put up with? Another perfect example would be Michael Parkinson's interview with Helen Mirren in the 70s or 80s. At the time, nobody really noticed anything wrong with it and found Helen to be standoffish. Thankfully now we see how ridiculous his line of questioning was and he has even admitted himself that it was terribly sexist and misogynistic. It was just so common place at the time that people didn't notice it. And when people like Helen spoke up they were seen as trouble makers.

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I agree that she’s difficult and standoffish, but Harty was a talentless hack of an interviewer. Very patronising. Greater interviewers would have dealt with her character better.

I don't think anybody is ignoring the fact that she was not easy to interview here, she was sleep deprived (and for all we know, possibly high on something). But as an interviewer he did an awful job of managing that, instead choosing to belittle her to the other guests and be condescending towards her. We don't usually notice when guests are being like this because most hosts have the talent to manage the situation.

Whacky 🤡

She doesn't seem herself for some reason 😕