This is an AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED ORIGINAL Vintage 8"x 10" BW photo of Jamaican model, singer, songwriter, record producer and actress GRACE JONES; and Swedish actor, filmmaker, martial artist and chemical engineer DOLPH LUNDGREN, featuring both of their autographs. Hans Lundgren (born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, martial artist and chemical engineer. Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet Union boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 40 films, almost all of them in the action genre.

Grace Beverly Jones OJ (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican model, singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. In 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2008, she was honored with a Q Idol Award. Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s and has been an inspiration for artists including Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Solange, Lorde, Róisín Murphy, Brazilian Girls, Nile Rodgers, Santigold, and Basement Jaxx. In 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 40th greatest dance club artist of all time. Dolph Lundgrenis tall. He turned down the lead role in Gladiator. He does the best Sylvester Stallone impression you’ve ever heard. And he’s probably a genius.

The son of Karl, a Swedish economist and engineer, and Sigrid, a language teacher, Hans Lundgren (as it says on his birth certificate) had already won various US-based academic scholarships (including a placement at Washington State University) before graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a degree in chemical engineering with distinction. He had earned a Masters in the same discipline from the University of Sydney, when he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. That’s when Grace Jones spotted him across a nightclub. It was Grace Jones who suggested he try out for a part as a henchman on the James Bond film A View to a Kill. MIT would have to wait.

“My father called it a disastrous decision,” recalls the 61-year-old. “I mean, to give up that scholarship and become a starving actor? It was insane when I think back. But I had this feeling that I didn’t want to be a chemical engineer. That it wasn’t going to be enough for me. That I would be bored. And then, within a month, I was in the Rocky picture.” Instead, Lundgren found himself at the centre of one of New York’s most romanticised periods. He dabbled in modelling but was too tall and big for most gigs. He earned a basic wage alongside Chazz Palminteri as a bouncer on the door of Manhattan’s Limelight Club. By night, he hung out with Keith Haring, Iman and Steve Rubell. By morning, Grace Jones would bring back as many as five girls for group sex, an activity he describes as “exhausting”. He was a regular at both Studio 54 and the Factory, and Andy Warhol would invite him to do a photoshoot with Jones. But not before Warhol asked him: ‘What are you famous for?’

“It was certainly a shock for this young engineering student,” he says. “I’m pleased to have been part of that scene. It was right before Aids, and the club scene was hardcore. And my girlfriend, Grace, was a big gay icon, so we went to a lot of the clubs. We knew Andy and all the designers, and Michael Jackson and David Bowie. It was simpler in those days somehow. And fun. Entertainment wasn’t corporate in the way entertainment is now. A lot of the people I met back then are not alive anymore. You know, Aids or drugs or a combination of the two. Its bittersweet looking back. Even with Andy. I thought he was an old man at the time but he died in his 50s.”
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