Grace Jones, Bulletproof Heart: Expanded Edition (originally released as Capitol LP C1 91737, 1989 - reissued Gold Legion GLDN 56420, 2012) Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician (The Jazzclubmillionminutemix) (12" A-side - Manhattan K6 (EU), 1987).I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You) (The Perfectly Extended Remix) (12" A-side - Manhattan V-56038, 1986).I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You) (The Right on Time Edit) (12" A-side - Manhattan V-56038, 1986).Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician.I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You).Grace Jones, Inside Story: Expanded Edition (originally released as Manhattan LP ST-53038, 1986 - reissued Gold Legion GLDN 56241, 2012) Laura Branigan, Self Control: Expanded Edition (originally released as Altantic LP 80147, 1984 - reissued Gold Legion GLDN 56239, 2012) Looking Out for Number One (Midnight Mix) (12" promo single - Atlantic DMD 265, 1981).Laura Branigan, Branigan: Expanded Edition (originally released as Atlantic LP SD 19289, 1982 - reissued Gold Legion GLDN 56238, 2012) Hit the jump to explore these titles and place your orders! The initial 1,000 copies of each Grace Jones album will feature a special cardboard slipcase, and all sets will have expanded booklets. (Five remixes appear on Inside Story.)īoth Branigan discs and Bulletproof Heart will be available on September 18, with Inside Story following a week later. While the album was not a commercial success and would remain her last LP for nearly 20 years, it's finally getting its due on CD, with three bonus remixes to boot. Follow-up album Bulletproof Heart was produced by a number of dance producers, including Jonathan Elias, Jones' then-husband Chris Stanley and up-and-coming dance hitmakers Robert Clivillés and David Cole (the individual letters in the C+C Music Factory outfit). dance hit in "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)," co-written by British songwriter Bruce Woolley (who co-wrote Jones' hit "Slave to the Rhythm"). The next year, she took up with producer Nile Rodgers (ironically, a missed encounter at Studio 54 inspired Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to write massive hit "Le Freak" during their tenue in CHIC) and released Inside Story on EMI-owned Manhattan Records. The striking Miss Jones took on her biggest film role in 1985 as the mysterious May Day in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, and would end her longtime association with Island Records with the bestselling Island Life compilation. Gold Legion then turns its attention to an oft-overlooked period for iconic dance musician/model/actress Grace Jones. The expansion of Branigan features the 12" version of "Gloria" as well as 1981 non-LP single "Looking Out for Number One," while Self Control features remixes of the title track and singles "Satisfaction" and "The Lucky One." Branigan's embrace of European musical trends and songcraft netted her greater success as the '80s rolled on, first with a French pop song, "Solitaire," translated into English by a rising lyricist named Diane Warren then with " Self Control," a hard-driving song co-written by Italian pop star Raffaele "Raf" Riefoli that was a Top 5 hit in 1984. Branigan's iconic, addictive single spent an extraordinary 36 weeks on the U.S. The Gold Legion label has two expanded titles coming from a pair of disco and dance legends this fall.Įxpect remastered and expanded editions of the late, great Laura Branigan's Branigan (1982) and Self Control (1984) albums, as well as reissues of Inside Story (1986) and Bulletproof Heart (1989) from Grace Jones, this September.īranigan, the big-voiced New Yorker with a four-octave range, burst onto the scene in 1982 with the release of Branigan, a solid offering of dance-rock bolstered by a cover of " Gloria," an Italian pop hit for Umberto Tozzi in 1979.
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