Intimate Details
/image%2F1405709%2F20250318%2Fob_f427a3_robert-palmer-intimate.png)
Name: Robert Alan Palmer
Born: Batley, Yorkshire on January 19, 1949
School: Up until the age of ten I lived in Malta and i loved school. From the age of ten to about 17 I was in school in England and I hated it because instead of being taught how to learn, I was being taught how to pass exams.
Lives: Currently in Bahamas - I've been there for the past eleven years, but I'm moving to Lugano, in Switzerland soon.
/image%2F1405709%2F20250319%2Fob_195730_robert-palmer-bahamas.png)
Robert Palmer at home in the Bahamas
Foods: Sushi, French haute cuisine, Indian.
Hobbies: I'm an avid reader and I collect books. I have the collected works of Jack Vance and another guy called Gene Wolfe. I've got most of Yukio Mishima's books. Also photography in fits and starts, and of course, listening to music.
/image%2F1405709%2F20250319%2Fob_826855_robert-palmer-collected-books.png)
Among Palmer's favourite authors: Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe and Yukio Mishima
Funniest thing that's ever been written about: A Spanish newspaper once wrote that I joined The Power Station for the money - and since I still haven't been paid for my work with them I find it hilarious!
Any disasters on stage: Playing reggae music in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in the mid-70s. The audience had never heard reggae and they turned nasty and started chucking fruit and things at the stage. Now, of course, it's all the rage in Phoenix.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be: New New Year's resolution last year was to be less lazy and it seems this year I'm going to have to make the same one again. Laziness isn't anything to do with the physical, it's a frame of mind, an attitude. I'm real good at just switching off.
/image%2F1405709%2F20250319%2Fob_2bd2f2_robert-palmer-laziness-bahamas.png)
"I'm real good at just switching off" (Robert Palmer)
What makes you angry: My children. I think that's the way children are designed, you know. They're always seeing how far they can push me, how much they can get away with. I never lost my temper in my life until they came along.
What sort of things make you laugh: Just about everything.
Favourite possession: My spirit. It's the only thing I really have.
/image%2F1405709%2F20250318%2Fob_3359da_palmer-intimate-details.png)
Palmer's favourite possession: "My spirit. It's the only thing I really have"
If you could meet anyone from history who would it be: Winston Churchill because from everything I've read about him I bet he was just a laugh a minute.
Three words to describe yourself: Addicted To Love
(No1 Magazine - February 1986)
/image%2F1405709%2F20250319%2Fob_36d88b_robert-palmer-intimate-details-magazin.png)