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Mandrakes Find Recording A Tough Business
Scarborough group, The Mandrakes, went to Hull on Sunday and found that recording is no easy business. They were there to make demo-disks of four numbers written by lead singer Allen Palmer (19). They arrived at Mr. Keith Hird's recording studio at Willerby...
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Robert Palmer's Alley Funk
With his fashionably short blond hair, French silk shirt and digital-readout wristwatch, Robert Palmer looks more like an Esquire fashion model than a British rock star. But instead of the icy macho stance in which those men always seem to get photographed,...
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Palmer: Sleek Flashy Sincere
Concentation The Main Thing For British Singer's Show Many people who attended Robert Palmer's concert had never heard any songs performed by the English rhythm and blues singer before coming to the ballroom Friday evening. When the show was over and...
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The Playboy Who'd Sooner Be A Priest
Mike Gardner talks to Robert Palmer Four o'clock at the Kensington Hilton. Three manicured slivers of sandwich. Two for tea. One warm butter oozing scone with a liberal application of jam being gently nibbled by Robert Palmer. It's been four years since...
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Palmer Doesn't Care Whether The Shoe Fits
Although Robert Palmer didn't have to move to the Bahamas to learn how to produce good music, it's environment apparently lends itself to creative thought. With a solid background of intriguing albums, such as his '74 debut release, Sneakin' Sally Through...
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Robert Palmer
Pat Thomas looks back on the career of one of the finest white soul singers around. When the great book of musical history comes to be written - and it will be - the Yorkshire town of Batley will be remembered for two things. Firstly, for the now defunct...
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Bob's Your Uncle
Cool smoothie Robert Palmer - who caused a right old rumpus when he ditched the Power Station - is back in the charts doing what he does best - crooning about lurve. Addicted To Love has given him his first American Number One, and also his first hit...
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Robert Palmer
Meeting Robert Palmer is an intimidating experience. A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile...
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Elkie Brooks Remembers Singing With Robert Palmer
This was taken at Reading Festival, three months after we released the first Vinegar Joe album with Island Records. In the three years that the band existed, between 1971 and 1974, we released three albums. We were never huge, but we were very popular...
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From The Archives: Robert Palmer
In December 2002 I was working for the BBC’s Top of The Pops website. Mostly I wrote silly pieces of content, like Top 5 Most Depressing Depeche Mode lyrics, or the three news stories that the site used to publish every day. But then I was asked if I’d...
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Compass Point All Stars: Quand Le Meilleur Groupe Du Monde Se Trouvait Aux Bahamas
Il y a quarante ans, Chris Blackwell, fondateur d'Island Records, recrutait la crème des musiciens (Sly et Robbie ...) pour enregistrer avec Grace Jones dans son studio de Nassau, aux Bahamas. Et créait ainsi les Compass Point All Stars, qui virent affluer...
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Compass Point Story
The exceptional quality and particular circumstances of a handful of recording studios have leant them the status of legend. Some have a readily identifiable sound, such as Abbey Road, where the Beatles recorded most of their work, or the 30th Street...
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Compass Point Story (part II)
According to Badarou, the sessions had a pitifully slow and chaotic start. “Upon arrival, Barry and I were put into a big house, but there was no one around but us for days—no Grace, no Chris, no Sly, no Robbie. Then they all came up, two by two. Alex...
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Compass Point Story (part III)
What do you get from the following ingredients? An itinerant non-musician playing a keyboard upside down, three singing sisters not necessarily trained in harmony, an inverted bass line and clandestine handclaps. The answer, obviously, is a hit record...
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Compass Point Story (part IV)
As Tom Tom Club were getting their act together, cockney-styled singer Ian Dury and his longstanding song-writing partner, Chaz Jankel appeared in Studio A to record Lord Upminster with Sly and Robbie and keyboardist Tyrone Downey, a regular member of...
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Compass Point Story (part V)
“The only one session that never work out, that ego cause the album to flop, was James Brown” laments Steven Stanley. “Chris Blackwell wanted Sly and Robbie producing James Brown, Alex Sadkin was the engineer and co-producer; it was a great idea. In Studio...
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Looking For Clues
An explanation first of all. The title of this article is the title of a track from Robert Palmer's 1980 album Clues . Extracted like a plum from a rich but complex pudding, it became a massive hit tune throughout Europe and America. Pulled by the delighted...
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A Logical Expansion: Why Robert Palmer Loves This Italian Studio
In 1984 two brothers, Michelangelo and Carmelo La Bionda, took over the CGD studio in Milan and re-named it Logic Studios. Over the last three years, the duo have built up a tremendous reputation as Italy's principal recording professionals. Logic's reputation...
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A Heavy Touring Nova
The great thing about Robert Palmer live in concert is getting to experience a true representation of his eclectic talent. on his current tour, Palmer embodies a musical versality which you can find not only in his past, with songs like Every Kinda People...
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The Power Station Biography
Chance and circumstance played a major part in the formation of The Power Station in 1985, but it took a more determined approach to re-form the group in 1993 and co-create a new album, Living In Fear . In 1985, Andy Taylor and John Taylor, both then...
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Robert Palmer Interview: The Power And The Story
Some guys have all the luck indeed. It is difficult to imagine anyone in the music business with a more enviable position than Robert Palmer. A smooth English soul singer with matinee idol looks, his long career has been successful enough to allow him...
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2022 Expanded Deluxe Digital Editions
Quatre albums de Robert Palmer issus des années Island sont désormais disponibles sur toutes les plateformes digitales dans des éditions Deluxe qui incluent des faces B, des morceaux remixés et quelques raretés. Ces titres bonus sont les mêmes que ceux...
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Which Of Us Is The Fool
Which of us is the fool indeed. Robert Palmer is currently ensconced in the United States, busily assembling a nifty little combo with which to woo and pulverise American audiences. If his live performances are anywhere near his recorded ones, then the...
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In Robert Palmer's Record Collection, G Is For Gilberto
I've made tape compilations since 1970 of the music I'm listening to and now I have all the titles on computer. I recently pressed the 'alphabeticise' button, and discovered Joao Gilberto came out tops as the most listened to artist. It doesn't really...
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Articles 1990s
Robert Palmer Is Mr. Variety Pittsburgh Press - 1991 Robert Palmer Mellows Out Orange Coast Magazine - 1993 In Robert Palmer's Record Collection, G Is For Gilberto The Independent - 1993 Feature On Robert Palmer nc - 1994 Robert Palmer On Lee Perry nc...