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Biography (1974)
As many Americans are Anglophiles (Sparks being a prime example), so do the English lust to be American. Man and Hawkind look towards the 1967 San Fransisco era, while Frankie Miller leans towards a soul influence. Robert Palmer digs rhythm 'n' blues....
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New Album Treks Techno-Rock Course
With his new record album, suave British rocker Robert Palmer appears to be taking something of a gamble at a rather delicate point in his career. But that's just one opinion. Robert Palmer has a different view. Palmer has been on the verge of stardom...
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Robert Palmer: The Island Years
It's immensely egotistical of me, but it's great that finally, a mere decade after I did some work, I can see the results. In early 2004, following a random discussion about how no one seemed remotely interested in the late Robert Palmer's back catalogue,...
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Cool Palmer: 1989 Singapore Concert Review
Robert Palmer, the doyen of the cool school of smart-suited rockers, demonstrated his hip ability to hold an audience without resorting to kinetic frenzy at Top Ten in Singapore last Wednesday night. For nearly two hours, Palmer and his crack seven-piece...
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TV Dinners
Robert Palmer - TV Dinners Titre : TV Dinners Ecrit par : F. Beard / B. Gibbons / D. Hill Première publication : Sur l'album At His Very Best (2002) Paroles : TV dinners, there's nothing else to eat TV dinners, they really can't be beat I like 'em frozen...
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Simply Irresistible
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible Titre : Simply Irresistible Ecrit par : R. Palmer Première publication : Sur l'album Heavy Nova (1988) Classement : US#2 / UK#44 Récompenses : Grammy Award de la Meilleure Performance Vocale Rock Masculine « It gets...
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I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Robert Palmer - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (feat. UB40) Titre : I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Ecrit par : B. Dylan Première publication : Sur l'album Don't Explain (1990) Classement : US#24 Modern Rock / UK#6 Paroles : Close your eyes - close the door You...
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In The Pleasure Groove
Titre : In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death And Duran Duran Auteur : John Taylor Date de publication : 2012 Editeur : Little Brown & Sphere (UK) / Dutton (US) Type : Essai Après Andy Taylor en 2008, le bassiste John Taylor est le deuxième membre de Duran...
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People Funny Boy
Titre : People Funny Boy: The Genius Of Lee "Scratch" Perry Auteur : David Katz Date de publication : 2006 (UK) / 2012 (FR) Editeur : Omnibus Press (UK) / Camion Blanc (FR) Type : Essai EXTRAIT Around the same time that Disco Devil was voiced, Robert...
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Woke Up Laughing
Titre : Woke Up Laughing : Adventures In Tropical Music 1977-1997 Date de publication : 1998 (US) Label : Metro Blue Type : Compilation Morceaux : 1. Housework 2. Charanga (alternate version) 3. Woke Up Laughing (79/89 mix) 4. Aeroplane (remix) 5. History...
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Discographie
Nouveau: Vous pouvez maintenant lire les critiques originales de tous les albums de Robert Palmer, Power Station et Vinegar Joe issues de la presse internationale! New: You can now read original reviews of all Robert Palmer, Power Station and Vinegar...
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The Good Life Of Rock 'n' Roll's Robert Palmer
The Cary Grant of rock quests for the best in clothes, food and shelter. Much has been made of Robert Palmer's taste for the good life: the closets full of expensive Italian suits, the dream homes in Switzerland and the Bahamas, his appetite for champagne...
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Robert Palmer On Lee Perry
By the late 70s Lee Perry's reggae productions had become remarkably popular not only with Britain's West Indian populations but with a significant number of whites. A telling array of white rock stars tried to work with perry including Paul and Linda...
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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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Johnny Et Mary (version 2023)
Salvatore Adamo - Johnny et Mary Artiste : Salvatore Adamo Titre : Johnny Et Mary Ecrit par : R. Palmer / S. Adamo Nouvelle adaptation en français de Johnny And Mary par le chanteur italo-belge Salvatore Adamo sur son album de reprise In French Please!,...
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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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Robert Palmer Mellows Out
In a reflective moment during the end-of-tour party in the classic 1984 rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, consummate British rocker David St. Hubbins contemplates his future now that his band, Spinal Tap, is about to end its 15-year run. "As you know,"...
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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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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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A Latter-Day Nordic Rudolph Valentino, Who Does What He Likes - Naturally
Some People Can Do What They Like is the title of Robert Palmer's new album. The title quite simply explains a good deal about Robert, a musician who's enthusiastic fans dig him because he's doing what he wants to do is just - so good! "My music is like...
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Drive: Original Reviews
BBC : He emotes, he urges and, above all, he convinces. Robert Palmer must really regret ever making that video for Addicted To Love . Forever burned into the public consciousness as the lounge lizard with the leggy backing band; few people seem to remember...
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Rediscovered : Uncovering The Underrated And Overlooked
Rock, pop, soul, funk, reggae: a musical Zelig reappraised Robert Palmer, who died 20 years ago, aged only 54, was a Zelig-like figure in pop history, someone whose musical life intersected with everyone from Elkie Brooks to Gary Numan, from Little Feat...
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Simply Irrefutable
Far from the dilettante playboy his image suggested, could the shapeshifting Robert Palmer be one of the most underrated singer-songwriters of his era? As a new boxset compiles his recordings for the Island label, we reassess his chameleon-like solo career...
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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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Sweet Success
Two years after recording Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley , his first album for Island Records, Robert Palmer's future has begun to clarify. His latest effort, Some People Can Do What They Like , has bulleted to #48 on the Cash Box Top 100 Album chart...