Slave to the Rhythm by Grace Jones

Slave to the Rhythm, Grace Jones's seventh studio album, arrived on Island Records on 28 October 1985, and it's less a collection of songs than a grand production number. Trevor Horn, the producer who had founded ZTT Records, built it as a concept album, and the liner notes go so far as to subtitle it a biography, with Jones cast as the subject of her own studio spectacle, all glitter and big, clanking rhythm.

She was everywhere that year, playing May Day in the Bond film A View to a Kill, and the record matched her profile. It became one of her most commercially successful albums and gave her the biggest hit of her career in "Slave to the Rhythm", which also made the UK top 40.

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