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Sampler
Titre : Sampler Featuring True Love Date de publication : 1999 (Canada) Label : EMI Music Canada Type : Album promo Morceaux : 1. True Love (edit) 2. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On 3. Addicted To Love (edit) 4. Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) (remix)...
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Life In Detail
Titre : Life In Detail Ecrit par : A. Powell / Robert Palmer Première publication : Sur l'album Pretty Woman (1990) Classement : US#7 Mainstream Rock Who could tell just what might happen Sometimes you're gonna feel a shock You got your carbonet - you...
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True Love
Titre : True Love Ecrit par : S. O'Neill / R. Palmer Première publication : Sur l'album Rhythm & Blues (1999) Classement : UK#94 If I’m not mistaken My whole universe was shaken when I fell for you 'Cos all the stars collided when I held you in my arms...
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Coupures de presse 1960s / 1970s
Couverture du magazine musical anglais Groovy (1967) Article publié dans le quotidien local anglais The Mercury (1968) Lire l'article (en anglais) Article publié dans le quotidien local anglais The Scarborough Evening News (1969) Lire l'article (en anglais)...
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Some People Can Do What They Like US Tour (1976-77)
Dates US/Canada : (...) 23.06.76: West Hollywood, CA (Roxy Theatre) (...) 23.10.76: Baltimore, MD (Hollywood Palace) (...) 10.11.76: Vancouver, Canada (Queen Elisabeth Theatre) (...) 13.11.76: Middletown, CT (Wesleyan University) 14.11.76: Boston, MA...
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Pride Tour (1983)
Voir aussi Pride Tour Programme Pour lire l'article Looking For Clues extrait du programme, cliquez ici Dates Europe: 20.05.83: Aberdeen, GB (Capitol) 21.05.83: Edinburgh, GB (Playhouse Theatre) 22.05.83: Glasgow, GB (Tiffany's) 23.05.83: Liverpool, GB...
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A Heavy Touring Nova (1988-89)
Voir aussi Heavy Nova Tour Programme Dates Canada/US: 24.07.88: Toronto, Canada (Roy Thomson Hall) 25.07.88: Toronto, Canada (Roy Thomson Hall) 26.07.88: Kitchener, Canada (Center In The Square) 27.07.88: Montreal, Canada (La Ronde) 28.07.88: Ottawa,...
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Ridin' High Tour (1992)
Voir aussi Ridin' High Tour Programme Dates UK: 17.11.92: London (Royal Albert Hall) 18.11.92: London (Royal Albert Hall) Dates US: Las Vegas, NV New York, NY Chicago, IL San Fransisco, CA Los Angeles, CA Musiciens: Alan Mansfield: claviers Derek Smith:...
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There's Nothing Like A Hit Record
Robert Palmer used to get upset with media attempts to classify him and his music. But he makes it very difficult to assign him to a pigeon-hole because of his diversity. "I might as well dig a ditch if I'm going to do the same all the time," he says....
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Johnny Comes Home
Most folks at the Smash Hits Cultural Collective (motto: "Good Taste Costs Nothing") are keeping fingers crossed in the hope that Johnny And Mary will finally bring Robert Palmer the major chart success that's been eluding him for so long. Born in Yorkshire,...
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Rhythm 'n' Clues
One across (Mary Harron) asks the questions. Six down (Robert Palmer) gives the answers. For about six years now Robert Palmer has been in the odd position of being an almost success. He's never really failed, so he gets no sympathy for being an underdog,...
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The Palmer's Boy
Robert Palmer that is. A maker of tasteful dance records for well over ten years. Big everywhere from Guatemala to the Costa Del Sol. Everywhere except Britain. Surely some mistake, asks Ian Birch? Robert Palmer's late. An hour en retard in fact. Not...
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Chansons
A Addicted To Love ...............extrait de l'album Riptide (1985) Aeroplane...............extrait de l'album Don't Explain (1990) Ain't That Just Like A Woman...............extrait de l'album Drive (2003) All Around The World...............extrait de...
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Articles 1980s
Robert Palmer's Acceptable Success The Argus Press - 1980 New Album Treks Techno-Rock Course The Evening Independent - 1980 There's Nothing Like A Hit Record Kingman Daily - 1980 Johnny Comes Home Smash Hits - 1980 Rythm 'n' Clues Smash Hits - 1980 The...
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The Power Station Live In Japan (1996)
It was 1996 and the 80's had come to a disappointing conclusion in contrast to its glorious on-set. However, Brit-Pop had seen off naff pop, Grunge has passed along with Curt Cobain, House music was exploding, Ibiza was back to its best and something...
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Living In Fear Tour (1996-97)
Dates Europe: 17.09.96: London, GB (Hanover Grand) 06.11.96: Cologne, DE (Underground) Dates JP: 01.12.96: Osaka 03.12.96: Fukuoka 05.12.96: Nagoya 07.12.96: Tokyo (Shibuya) 09.12.96: Tokyo (Sanpurazahoru) 11.12.96: Yokohama Dates US: 02.09.97: New York,...
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Biography (1976)
Robert Palmer is one of the most exciting Soul singers to emerge in the Seventies that I've seen perform. Palmer is a blond, startlingly good-looking young Englishman, whose grace, elegance and compressed energy onstage combine to exude a rare magnetism....
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Some People Like What I Do
Bright lights, big city... It's a reception in honour of the Staple Singers and the Meters at a club down in Greenwich Village, prior to their Bottom Line gig. In attendance: Robert Palmer, and yours truly en route to catch a plane home from Jamaica....
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The Newest Rising Star On Stage...
Robert Palmer opened his fall tour at the Mineshaft Monday, and it promises to be more successful than his tour last spring. Palmer has a new album full of good material, the band is in top shape, and Island Records is preceeding him with massive promotions....
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The Presence Of A Star
"... What matters in Robert Palmer's albums is the overall effect. The tightness, the intertwining of rhythm and melody lines..." Robert Palmer's third album,Some People Can Do What They Like, is one of the strongest, most compelling rock records that...
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The Power Station
At the end of one interview of many in a long day, British singer / songwriter Robert Palmer bull's-eyed the raison d'être of his current project in an uncharacteristically earthy turn of phrase: "Why does a dog lick its balls? Because it can. If they...
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Some Guys Have All The Luck
Robert Palmer has just finished reading the latest biography of Marvin Gaye. One of his heroes? "The closest I can get to a hero. I don't believe in heroes. In fact, I don't believe in anything. Belief insults the mind," he says. Such an expression of...
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Robert Palmer Turns Off The Power
Veteran Vocalist Soling Again Riptide is veteran vocalist Robert Palmer's 10th solo album. But despite this prodigious output, Palmer is probably best known for his brief fling as the voice of the platinum Power Station project. Despite a career that...
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Robert Palmer Wants Intimacy Of Small Concert Venues
For those who thought that Robert Palmer was committing the equivalent of career hara-kiri by eschewing the Power Station's US tour last summer, the British singer has only one answer: "Sorry, but I'm suddenly a success." And for those who think he will...
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Rock And Roll's Sophisticate
"Oh, Mr. Palmer, Fame Is On The Line." Robert Palmer has done about everything to avoid rock stardom. It hasn't been enough. Rock and roll has been blamed for putting enough people into comas, so it was nice that it finally pulled somebody out of one....