The Fashion Plate And The Plumber's Mate Dept.

The link between these apparently diverse albums from Grace Jones and Joe Cocker is the band; Robbie Shakespeare on bass, Sly Dunbar on drums, Barry Reynolds and Mikey Chung on guitar, Wally Badarou on keys - the core of the Compass Point All Stars, house band at Chris Blackwell's Bahamas studio, where they were recorded. 

Nightclubbing was a huge, huge crossover hit in '81. Sheffield Steel, a few months later ... aaah ... not so much. It suffered from a wildly inappropriate title (the grim northern city meant little or nothing to a global audience, and had nothing to do with the music) and a wilfully foul cover. I've retitled and redesigned it, because this is how I rock, dudes, but it's your choice.

Grace was at home on an island in the sun, in the zeitgeist, on point. Joe was a transplant; a misfit in any age, looking forward and back, uncertain of his bearings. They're both terrific albums, and that Compass Point groove is fresh as ocean spray on a summer day.

EDIT: Some great links in the comments (although not to these albums, which everybody has, apparently), and a special mention for art58koen's share of Barry Reynold's I Scare Myself [left - Ed.] from both '82 and Compass Point.