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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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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. In...
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A Note From Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor, who has been inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with Duran Duran tonight (Nov. 5, 2022) in Los Angeles, was not able to attend the ceremonies due to illness. The band acknowledged his absence by reading portions of a letter that...
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Dada: A Short Presentation
In January 1971, the newly-formed band Dada briefly toured the UK with Iron Butterfly and Yes, as part of 'The Age Of Atlantic' package tour (named after a compilation album from Atlantic Records). This is how the official programme introduced them. A...
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Compass Point
Titre : Compass Point Auteur : Darren Sylvester Date de publication : 2012 Editeur : M.33 (édition limitée à 1.000 exemplaires) Type : Livre de photos Ayant appris la fermeture prochaine des célèbres Compass Point Studios situés aux Bahamas, l'artiste...
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Rendez-Vous Avec Le Moon (partie 1)
A perte de vue, le boulevard électrique filait vers la mer. 8 PM et la nuit caresse peu à peu les sommets des buildings. Je me tasse un peu plus au fond des fauteuils de cuir noir de la Limo de location. En faisant jouer l'interrupteur, la vitre automatique...
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The Story Of Vinegar Joe (part I)
Mock muggins, sexual advances, and sweat stains were all part of the Vinegar Joe story - along with some blistering British blues-rock. But one member was plotting to leave... It's late 1973, and Vinegar Joe singer Elkie Brooks is walking home to her...
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Interview With Steve Smith (2009)
When did you meet Robert Palmer, and what were the circumstances of the meeting? Was he still with Vinegar Joe at the time? I met Robert when my band (Smith Perkins Smith-the 1st American band signed to Island Records) played with VJ at Leicester University...
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Songs & Visions: The Carlsberg Concert '97 (part II)
The full cast attending the photocall The rehearsals Four days before the show, I attended a full rehearsal of the band, orchestra, and singers at London's Olympic Studios, where the project had been taking shape over the previous two and a half weeks....
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Brian Cooke: Jimi Hendrix, Robert Palmer, The Mandrakes And Me
Just over half way through my 3 year art school education in Hull, a new young band called The Mandrakes appeared for the first time at the Condor club in Scarborough. It was Wednesday January 27th 1965 and due to the long Christmas break from college,...
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The Island Records Years
Titre : The Island Records Years Date de publication : 17.02.2023 Label : Edsel Type : Coffret Coffret Deluxe regroupant sur 9 CD tous les albums de Robert Palmer de la période Island (1974-1985) avec des titres bonus. Le son a été remastérisé par Phil...
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Power Play
Robert Palmer scores the biggest hit of his career with Addicted To Love . "It was... anxious," confesses Robert Palmer, his mellifluous baritone uncharacteristically raw as he recalls the previous night's sold-out concert at Boston's Opera House, the...
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The Deb's Delight Takes Fright! (part I)
Heart-throb Robert Palmer pinned down in New York. Three times I got out of my warm bath to answer the telephone. The first call was a few seconds of silence and down. The second call stopped ringing just before I could pick it up. The third caller had...
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The Deb's Delight Takes Fright! (part II)
I am sitting on the fourth bar stool from the window, between Robert Palmer on the fifth and Joe on the third. I order drinks. Robert's first: a Tom Collins. The American bartender in his white smock takes great care with this order, and Robert gets a...
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The Deb's Delight Takes Fright! (part III)
Do you get pissed off with the whole routine of touring? "I suppose I get cynical about it but I don't get pissed off by it; because I like to sing. I like the physical sensation of it and everything - when it comes down to it the only real thing that...
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The Place That Changed Me
Robert Palmer in Shinjyuku Central Park, Tokyo (1985) Twenty-five years ago the rock star found Japan impenetrable. Twenty-four visits later the etiquette and send of dignity keep him coming back When I first went to Japan, nearly 25 years ago, one of...
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Some Guys Have All The Luck
"When we first moved into Nassau, we had a neighbour who had this daughter and she was like a sylph: she had green hair from the chlorine in the pool because she was a champion swimmer, she was brown from the sun and she was neither a boy nor a girl -...
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The Story Of Vinegar Joe (part II)
Vinegar Joe made three albums – a self-titled debut (1972), Rock ’n Roll Gypsies (also 1972) and Six Star General (1973). They were an electrifying live act and quickly became a staple of the UK’s then-thriving university circuit. But they struggled to...
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The Deb's Delight Takes Fright! (part IV)
I probably have a lot more sympathy with Robert Palmer than you expect me to have. We think along very similar lines at the moment, having reached similar conclusions about similar things from different directions. I have exactly the same attitude as...
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Carl Carlton And Melanie Wiegmann: Glory Of Love
Good advice is not always costly. Robert Palmer, Carl’s best friend and musical mentor, gave the impetus in 1999. Impressed by Carl’s songwriting output and overall artistic charisma, he confronted him during one of their many joint productions: “Why...
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Intimate Details
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...
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Chaka Khan's Upcoming Musical To Feature Robert Palmer!
Official artwork for I'm Every Woman: The Musical, which is set to premiere in 2026 A new musical based on the life and career of R&B diva Chaka Khan will play in London next year. Titled I'm Every Woman: The Musical, the show will celebrate Khan's rise...
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In Plain Sight
Titre : In Plain Sight: The Photographs 1968-2017 Auteur : Jean Pagliuso Date de publication : 2018 Editeur : Damiani Books Type : Livre de photos Jean Pagliuso is a world-class fashion photographer whose photographs of fashion models, music and film...