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Extraits d'interviews
Sur la réaction de ses parents à ses débuts: "Ils ont ri lorsque j'ai dit que j'allais me mettre en avant et chanter parce que j'étais si timide. Quand j'ai commencé, j'avais pour habitude de me cacher derrière les amplis et de garder les yeux fermés....
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Keep On Running: The Story Of Island Records
Titre : Keep On Running : The Story Of Island Records Auteur : Chris Salewicz Date de publication : 2009 Editeur : Universal Type : Essai L'histoire du label discographique qui a hébergé Robert Palmer pendant 18 ans, à travers neuf essais et de nombreuses...
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TV Dinners
Titre : TV Dinners Ecrit par : F. Beard / B. Gibbons / D. Hill Première publication : Sur l'album Drive (2003) Paroles : TV dinners, there's nothing else to eat TV dinners, they really can't be beat I like 'em frozen but you understand I throw 'em in...
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My Life In Dire Straits
Titre : My Life In Dire Straits Auteur : John Illsley Date de publication : 2021 Editeur : Diversion Books (US), Bantam Press (UK) Type : Essai Dans ses mémoires, le bassiste de Dire Straits revient notamment sur l'enregistrement de l'album Communiqué...
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The Very Best Of Robert Palmer
Titre : The Very Best Of Robert Palmer Date de publication : 1995 (UE) / 1997 (US) Label : EMI (UE) / Capitol (US) Type : Compilation Classement : UK#4 Récompenses : Disque de Platine UK Morceaux : 1. Addicted To Love (edit) 2. Bad Case Of Loving You...
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Interview with Elkie Brooks (2003)
Jon Kirkman : When Vinegar Joe split, I was very surprised that it took you longer to establish yourself as a solo artist than it did for Robert Palmer although, to be fair, he didn't make the big bucks until the mid eighties, but it seemed the emphasis...
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Questionnaires
Questionnaire 1979 Stage name: Robert Palmer Real name: Robert Palmer Date of birth: January 19, 1949 Place of birth: Yorkshire, England Height: 5'10" Weight: 135 Colour of hair: Brown Colour of eyes: Grey Hobby: Photography, throwing things away Car:...
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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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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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Robert Palmer Is Mr. Variety
With his designer suits, coiffed hair, rouged cheeks and sophisticated air, Robert Palmer carves himself an image of pop music bourgeois, a man whose urbane tastes run far beyond the standard T-shirt, leather and glitter togs of his trade. In other words,...
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Robert Palmer Dead At 54
There was much more to Robert Palmer than a well-tailored suit. The poised and versatile English vocalist died of a heart attack Sept. 26 in Paris. He was 54. Palmer was probably best-known for such mid-'80s hits as Addicted To Love and Simply Irresistible...
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The Enigma Of Palmer
Smooth and rich to some, humble and quiet to others There are those who have it in for Robert Palmer. Partly because his 1986 smash-hit video Addicted To Love was filled with prancing bimbos, making him look like an ageing Lothario. Partly because he...
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Extremes Of Style
Traveling all the musical map, Robert Palmer goes rock, funk, pop with Heavy Nova The black silk tie sways crookedly from the neck of a creased white shirt, the sandy hair looks damp and mussed. There's a cigarette in one hand, a glass of whiskey (no...
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Addictions Vol. 2
Titre : "Addictions" Volume 2 Date de publication : 1992 Label : Island Type : Compilation Classement : UK#12 Récompenses : Disque d'Argent UK Morceaux : 1. Remember To Remember (remake) 2. Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (remix) 3. Maybe It's You (remix)...
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Living In Fear
Titre : Living In Fear Date de publication : 1996 (UE+JP) / 1997 (US) Label : Chrysalis (UE+JP) / Capitol (US) Type : Album Morceaux : 1. Notoriety 2. Scared 3. She Can Rock It 4. Let's Get It On 5. Life Forces 6. Fancy That 7. Living In Fear 8. Shut...
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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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Chris Blackwell's Tribute
"Robert had so much natural style and taste, seemingly in everything. I had gone to what I remember as a rather grungy club outside London to see The Alan Bown Set, a band led by a trumpeter. My wife and myself were watching all the people coming in when...
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Obituary
Gifted soul singer whose hedonistic image belied his solid musical integrity One of the most gifted white soul singers of his crowded era, Robert Palmer, who has died of a heart attack aged 54, worked hard at being misunderstood. Album covers presenting...
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Articles 1960s / 70s
Mandrakes Find Recording A Tough Business The Mercury - 1968 Scarborough Singer Joins Leading British Pop Group The Scarborough Evening News - 1969 Palmer: I Got Something To Shout About Melody Maker - 1974 Biography Island Records - 1974 Robert Palmer's...
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Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
Titre : Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley Date de publication : 1974 Label : Island Type : Album Classement : US#107 Morceaux : 1. Sailin' Shoes 2. Hey Julia 3. Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley 4. Get Outside 5. Blackmail 6. How Much Fun 7. From A Whisper...
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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....
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I Love Slipknot
After 35 years making hit records Robert Palmer has mellowed but lost none of his trademark cool. He tells Jamie Dickson why he is delighted with "his new future" "Were you around in Bangkok when they wanted to put me in that spaceship coming down through...
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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 Caresses...
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Articles 2000s
Robert Palmer: An Appreciation John Taylor - 2000 The Place That Changed Me The Independent - 2000 I Love Slipknot The Telegraph - 2002 Robert Palmer The Guardian - 2002 I Love My... Marvellous Minidisc Player Daily Mirror Magazine - 2002 Robert Palmer:...