蜜芽传媒

In most cases, singles were songs plucked from the running order of an album, to give listeners a taste for the main act.

So, of course Grace Jones would do things differently.

One of the most iconic figures in pop music, the recording of her 1985 single Slave to the Rhythm ballooned into an album when her production partners ZTT kept mixing and remixing it, resulting in an album essentially made out of one song.

In Long Player, Steven Rainey explores just what led to the construction of this remarkable achievement, and the legacy it continues to have.