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ROBERT PALMER (1949-2003)
Il est regrettable que l'image vendeuse mais réductrice répandue par MTV au milieu des années 80, celle du playboy tiré à quatre épingles entouré d'une myriade de jolies filles, ait fini par discréditer en partie le chanteur talentueux et le musicien...
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Palmer: His Videos Don't Embarrass Him
It's 4.30pm and Robert Palmer, on his eighth interview for the day, wears a face that has seen it all before. You empathise. Since the middle of last year he's been on the treadmill of concerts, planes, hotel rooms and interviews. In America he did 120...
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Power Station Overcomes Obstacles
When your bass player leaves the band mid-recording and his replacement dies, you might think your supergroup reunion just wasn't meant to be. Not if you're the Power Station. Eleven and a half years after its self-titled album sold an estimated 1,5 million...
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Concert Review: Robert Palmer Adds To His Eclecticism
Robert Palmer, who played at the Beacon Theatre on Friday night, has kept his career going with a fascinating mixture of trends and movements. An early pop eclecticist, Mr. Palmer has spent his career experimenting with reggae, hard rock, African pop...
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Hit Single Expands Singer's Audience
Robert Palmer and I are relaxing and chatting over afternoon tea in a Boston hotel room. Palmer, a 30-year-old blond, blue-eyed rock and soul singer from Britain, is here on a promotional tour in support of his new album, Secrets - already the best selling...
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The Great Presenter
One of our finest pop creators hid in plain sight behind the image of a singing gentleman of leisure. But beneath the expensive tailoring lay a fiercely dedicated, eternally curious music lifer. In the summer of 1983, I worked in a record shop where one...
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Stylistic Influences Pervade Palmer's Music
Robert Palmer doesn't sound like anyone you've heard before. But he tries. Lord knows he tries. He tries Moon Martin power pop. He tries Todd Rundgren rock. He tries Lowell George blues. And he tries to deny it. "That's a lot of rubbish," Palmer says....
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Palming Off The Past
Robert Palmer's roguish dilettantism will get the better of him one of these days. It might have been anticipated that the pre-set routines of a live album would be the noose to string up those British blues band skeletons for all to see. Maybe It's Live...
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Palmer Helped Define Music Video
If video killed the radio star, as the Buggles' song goes, it did wonders for Robert Palmer. With the help of a video band populated by identical leggy, strinkingly glamorous women, the rock singer went from respectable 1970s star to a pop-culture symbol...
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Andy Taylor: "I've Got More Music To Make And I'm Going Nowhere Until I Get It Done" (part I)
Refusing to be dragged under by his terminal cancer diagnosis, Andy Taylor has not only been playing guitar on a new Duran Duran album but also making his first solo record for 33 years. Explaining the importance of music in staying strong during his...
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Future Vinegar Joe Member Reviews Robert Palmer's First Recording With Alan Bown (1969)
Keef Hartley as portrayed on Melody Maker (1969) On the November 1, 1969 issue of the British magazine Melody Maker, future Vinegar Joe member, drummer Keith "Keef" Hartley (1944-2011) reviewed the music releases of the week "in blind date" : The Beatles'...
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The Power Station Biography (1985)
Over three years ago, John and Andy (Taylor) began talking about the possibilities of another band, not to replace Duran Duran, but a one-off project that would fulfill John's original intention for Duran Duran - mixing funk rhythms with heavy metal guitar...
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Clues: NME's Original Album Review
Why Clues ? I mean to say, Robert old chap, it's not as if there's some burning question to all this despite the wacky covershot of your hunky physique knee-deep in some oceanic expanse with the old brows deep furrowed in thought as the handy cassette...
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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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Old Snake Lips Is Back
What Phil Spector did for sound Robert Palmer did for babes, for it is he who immortalised the Wall of Bimbos technique in his mid-80s videos Addicted To Love and Simply Irresistible . You remember the models playing air guitar in spray-on dresses, slicked...
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Remember To Remember
The simply irresistible Robert Palmer, Geoff Brown bids farewell. A hitmaker through three decades on both sides of the Atlantic, Palmer's career blossomed as a singer and songwriter when he quit Vinegar Joe at the start of 1974 and jetted to the USA...
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L'Explosion De Robert Palmer
Palmer est la rigueur même. Son cinquième album est étonnant de concision et de simplicité. Une subtile harmonie d'audace et de sobriété qui sonne juste. Clues coule de source. Et pourtant... Voilà quinze ans que l'hérétique fils d'officier de la Marine...
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Titre : The Dark Side Of The Moon Auteur : Jack Vance Date de publication : 1986 Editeur : Underwood-Miller Type : Recueil de nouvelles Grand amateur de science-fiction, Robert Palmer s'est notamment inspiré du travail de l'illustrateur spécialisé Virgil...
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Pressure Drop
Titre : Pressure Drop Date de publication : 1975 Label : Island Type : Album Classement : US#136 Morceaux : 1. Give Me An Inch 2. Work To Make It Work 3. Back In My Arms 4. River Boat 5. Pressure Drop 6. Here With You Tonight 7. Trouble 8. Fine Time 9....
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Carinthia West On Modelling For Robert Palmer
Born in 1951, Carinthia West is a model, an actress, a photographer, a writer and a muse for rock icons such as Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and David Bowie. She's also the naked girl on the cover of Robert Palmer's second solo album Pressure Drop . Chris...
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Albums Artwork Inspirations
Dans les années 1960, Robert Palmer travailla brièvement en tant que graphiste et, durant toute sa carrière de chanteur, il porta une grande attention à ses pochettes d'albums avec de nombreuses références assumées: Jean-Luc Godard, Edward Hopper, Man...
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Looking For Clues
Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues Titre : Looking For Clues Ecrit par : R. Palmer Première publication : Sur l'album Clues (1980) Classement : UK#33 « I'd been experimenting with a prototype sequencer, a cheap yellow and plastic effort called a Wasp and...
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You Are In My System
Robert Palmer - You Are In My System Titre : You Are In My System Ecrit par : D. Frank / M. Murphy Première publication : Sur l'album Pride (1983) Classement : US#78 / UK#53 « I first heard a white-label of this track in a club in Paris when I was finishing...
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Some Guys Have All The Luck
Robert Palmer - Some Guys Have All The Luck Titre : Some Guys Have All The Luck Ecrit par : J. Fortang Première publication : Sur l'album Maybe It's Live (1982) Classement : US#59 Mainstream Rock / UK#16 « I was working with Moon Martin when I wrote Some...
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I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On Titre : I Didn't Mean To Turn You On Ecrit par : J. Harris III / T. Lewis Première publication : Sur l'album Riptide (1985) Classement : US#2 / UK#9 « This was written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for a teenage...