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Some People Can Do... + Double Fun (Collector's Edition)
Titre : Some People Can Do What They Like + Double Fun Date de publication : 2013 Label : Edsel Type : Coffret Morceaux : 1. One Last Look 2. Keep In Touch 3. Man Smart Woman Smarter 4. Spanish Moon 5. Have Mercy 6. Gotta Get A Grip On You (part II) 7....
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Sneakin' Sally... + Pressure Drop (Collector's Edition)
Titre : Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley + Pressure Drop Date de publication : 2013 Label : Edsel Type : Coffret 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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Robert Palmer: Singer, 1949-2003
To his irritation, Robert Palmer became as famous for his suits and matinée idol image as his music. But his sense of style shouldn't disguise the fact that he possessed one of the finest blue-eyed soul voices, deployed to brilliant effect early in his...
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Collected
Titre : Collected Date de publication : 2016 Label : Universal NL Type : Coffret Morceaux : 1. Get Outside 2. Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley 3. Give Me An Inch 4. Which Of Us Is The Fool 5. Man Smart, Woman Smarter 6. Every Kinda People (remix) 7. Best...
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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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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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Pop Singer is Mr. Elegance
Robert Palmer may be the Cary Grant of the music business. Like Grant, he has an elegant manner, look and delivery. His music intrigues the listener with its seeming simplicity and pulsating rhythms. Palmer has managed to mix the new with old standards,...
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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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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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Essential (2014)
Titre : Essential Date de publication : 2014 (UE) Label : Universal Type : Compilation Morceaux : 1. Some Guys Have All The Luck 2. Looking For Clues 3. Want You More 4. Pride 5. Johnny And Mary 6. You Are In My System 7. Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor,...
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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 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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The Power Station
They're a brand new group with some mighty familiar faces... They're John and Andy Taylor from Duran Duran... Tony Thompson and Bernard Edwards from Chic... And supercrooner Robert Palmer on the mike... And, as David Keeps discovers, they are... The Power...
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Mary Ambrose's Site
20 ans après le décès de Robert Palmer, son ancienne compagne Mary Ambrose a lancé son propre site sur internet. Se décrivant comme auteur-compositeur et multi-instrumentaliste, elle y rappelle sa contribution à l'écriture de chansons comme Aeroplane,...
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Caresses En Musique
Le chanteur, timide et sensuel, conquiert le public féminin avec le charme de sa voix pleine de nuances. Robert Palmer, l'un des phénomènes musicaux du moment, dans les charts aussi bien avec l'album Clues qu'avec le simple extrait du LP Johnny And Mary...
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Ripping Yarns
From Batley to the Bahamas, Robert Palmer's distinctive and diverse music has provided a refreshing alternative to mainstream pop. Or is that just a polite way of saying he hasn't had a hit lately? The legend International Musician finally finds gainful...
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Some Guys Have All The Luck
Robert Palmer is the boy from Batley who made it big. A new album, a wardrobe full of smart suits and a sumptuous international lifestyle - his only worry is whether he'll have to loosen his belt. Robert Palmer quite possibly thinks he's it. But that's...
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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 João Gilberto came out tops as the most listened to artist. It doesn't really...
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La Story Jamais Contée De Robert Palmer (Podcasts)
A l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire de la disparition de Robert Palmer, survenue le 26 septembre 2003 à Paris, la station de radio belge francophone Nostalgie a créé une série de podcasts retraçant le parcours du chanteur en 5 épisodes. "La Story Nostalgie"...
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Duran Duo In "Power" Project
All-Star Collaboration If the abrasive edge of Duran Duran's recent hit Wild Boys took part of the band's young constituency by surprise, that legion of fans better brace itself for an even funkier move by the group's guitarist Andy Taylor and bassist...
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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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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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The Gentleman Rocks On
Like most of his recent albums, Robert Palmer's latest effort, Don't Explain, parades a wide diversity of styles ranging from the metal-funk he pioneered on Riptide and bossa nova to soul and Carribean pop. The work was recorded in Logic Studios, Milan,...
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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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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...