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Memorabilia #17
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Robert Palmer And The Duran Duran Twins Refuel At The Power Station (part II)
John Taylor and Andy Taylor first "got on" with Palmer at the Rum Runner Club in England about three years ago, at which they discussed the possibility of a project together. Not long after, of course, Duran Duran took off worldwide and the Taylors' time...
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Memorabilia #3
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Memorabilia #2
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Memorabilia #9
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Palmer Looks Upon Success As Side Effect
Robert Palmer's music career has been a case of now you see him, now you don't. He has made a habit, since his debut with Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley in 1974, of topping the charts and then suddenly disappearing from the public eye for several years....
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The Power Station Turns 40: Inside The High-Gloss Chaos Of The '80s Ultimate Supergroup
By the mid-1980s, both John Taylor and Andy Taylor had a problem. Their band Duran Duran had conquered the world, selling out arenas and dominating MTV with their high-gloss pop aesthetics. But for the band’s rhythm section and lead guitarist, something...
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Videos Give Palmer A Leg Up In U.S.
Fashionable and suave, Robert Palmer is a cultured rocker. His last three videos even feature a cast of beautiful models dancing and pretending to play instruments while the well-dressed singer belts out some catchy hooks. Although the video concept was...
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Power Station: It's Not Punk Or Funk
When John Taylor of Duran Duran decided to start an "extra-curricular" band more than three years ago, he and fellow D-2 member Andy Taylor envisioned a sound somewhere between Sex Pistols punk and Chic funk. But that's "not quite" how it came out, according...
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Wally Badarou 2023 Interview
Wally Badarou (1982) His reputation for futuristic pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner. During the course of the 1980s the pioneering French keyboardist and synth innovator Wally Badarou played on a string of...
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Island's Palmer Just Wants To Write, Record And Play Music
With his fifth Island release, Robert Palmer is an artist on the verge of a breakthrough. Secrets is the highest debut on the Cash Box Top 200 Albums chart this week at #87 bullet, following last year's Double Fun LP which reached the #26 spot. Bad Case...
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Finer Things: A Vinegar Joe Story By Malcom Dome (part IV)
In early 1973, Vinegar Joe headed across the Atlantic for a tour that began on March 16 and ended May 14. "We were told by John Sherry, our booking agent, that the North American tour would break the band over there," remembers Mullen. "But that was never...
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Finer Things: A Vinegar Joe Story By Malcom Dome (part II)
Brooks feels the relationship between Smith and Gage was very well defined. "As far as I can recall, Pete was very much the leader in the studio when it came to the production side of things. Vic was more of an engineer than anything else. The fact it...
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Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)
Jamaican drummer Lowell Fillmore "Sly" Dunbar has died at the age of 73. Best known for being one half of the famous Reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie with bassist Robbie Shakespeare (who died in 2021) as the other half, Dunbar is said to have learned...
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Clive Arrowsmith On Shooting Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer by Clive Arrowsmith (1987) "I shot these images of the late great Robert Palmer for Elle Magazine (London). He was such an elegant man and arrived dressed in a beautiful blue silk suit, he was incredibly well turned out for a rock star....