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Robert Palmer 2003 Interview (part I)
Pete Sargeant talks to English song stylist Robert Palmer about music, musicians and the creative process and the background to his forthcoming album release Drive. By tonight Palmer will have flown back home to Switzerland but this morning he is talking...
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MOJO's All Back To My Place Questionnaire (1999)
What music are you currently grooving to? Brandy's album Never Say Never, because it's bloody great. As a rule, with any CD by anybody there'll be a couple of stand out things, if I'm lucky. I like most of this album, although a couple of songs are a...
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Eddie Martinez: How An Unknown Guitarist Turned A Lunch Date Into Session Work On The Biggest Hits Of The 1980s
Eddie Martinez's chance encounter made him a go-to session player for Mick Jagger, Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer and others Eddie Martinez had scored a few hot touring gigs during the late ‘70s — playing with LaBelle and then with Stanley Clarke and George...
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Power Trip
They said they wouldn't tour. Three of them were wrong. Suzan Colon and David Keeps investigate the "constantly evolving project" called The Power Station. Robert Palmer seems excited. He also seems perfectly at home in the swank surroundings of the Essex...
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Rendez-Vous Avec Le Moon (partie 2)
Comment es-tu devenu un artiste Capitol ? "Un jour, par hasard, j’ai rencontré Jack Nitzsche qui m’a raconté qu’il allait produire un nouvel artiste du nom de Willy De Ville. Jack partait pour New-York, il a embarqué une cassette à moi dans l’avion. Je...
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Secrets
Titre : Secrets Date de publication : 1979 Label : Island Type : Album Classement : US#19 / UK#54 Morceaux : 1. Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) 2. Too Good To Be True 3. Can We Still Be Friends? 4. In Walks Love Again 5. Mean Ol' World 6. Love...
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Robert Palmer: An Appreciation
I haven't heard much from Robert Palmer lately. I had a postcard, written in blithely drunken type from Tokyo earlier this year: 'Thinking of you...' signed... Simon and Yazzy, Robert and Mary XXX... but that's all. A compilation album came out, two or...
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The Power Station
It's the first major project any of Duran Duran have attempted outside the group. Pat Thomas sorts out the who, what, when, where and why. Even in the highly organised world of Duran Duran, things don't always go according to plan. Five years ago when...
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Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade
Sortie en mai 2022 sur le label Edsel-Demon Records d'une nouvelle compilation thématique en 4 CD/2 LP intitulée Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade, assemblée par le très respecté journaliste musical anglais David Hepworth. Robert Palmer...
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Clues
Titre : Clues Date de publication : 1980 Label : Island Type : Album Classement : US#59 / UK#31 Morceaux : 1. Looking For Clues 2. Sulky Girl 3. Johnny And Mary 4. What Do You Care 5. I Dream Of Wires 6. Woke Up Laughing 7. Not A Second Time 8. Found...
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Moon Martin Interview
Robert Palmer recorded your song, Bad Case Of Loving You, which charted well. How did this recording with Robert Palmer come about? At that time, my publishing company was one of the top publishing companies. I had Bad Case Of Loving You and Rolene and...
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Three Robert Palmer Albums To Be Reissued In February 2025
Three Robert Palmer albums from the later years are to be reissued on CD Digisleeve and for the first time on vinyl in February 2025 via Bob Frank Distribution (BFD)! Bob Frank is an entrepreneur and C-Level executive in the music and film business with...
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Every Kinda People
Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People Titre : Every Kinda People Ecrit par : A. Fraser Première publication : Sur l'album Double Fun (1978) Classement : US#16 / UK#53 (1978) - US#8 Adult Contemporary / UK#43 (1992) « Andy Fraser from Free wrote this but...
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Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran
Titre : Wild Boy : My Life In Duran Duran Auteur : Andy Taylor Date de publication : 2008 Editeur : Orion (UK) / Grand Central (US) Type : Essai Andy Taylor est le premier membre de Duran Duran à écrire ses mémoires. Dans Wild Boy, l'ancien guitariste...
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The Postal System
Robert Palmer lives in paradise. While we shiver in chilly Britain the singer who brought you You Are In My System spends most of his time splashing around off the coast of the Bahamas. "For three months of the year the humidity is so high you have to...
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The Island Book Of Records: Volume 1
Titre : The Island Book Of Records: Volume 1 (1959-68) Auteur : Neil Storey Date de publication : 16 octobre 2023 (UK) / 28 novembre 2023 (US) Editeur : Manchester University Press Type : Essai The Island Book Of Records: Volume 1 brings the early years...
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Concert At Villa Park, Birmingham, 1983
On Saturday July 23, 1983 Duran Duran staged an open air benefit concert at Aston Villa football ground, Birmingham, England, in front of 18,000 people. The show began at 6:00 pm with host Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell introducing the first opening act, Prince...
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Hello Goodbye: Michael Des Barres And The Power Station
He replaced Robert Palmer to play Live Aid... but it was never built to last. Hello: July 1985 I'd been in a band called Chequered Past with Steve Jones. The year before we'd opened for Duran Duran, which was to be the entrance to a mad world of private...
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Culture Factory Reissues (2013)
STRICTLY LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION Paper Sleeve CD Deluxe Vinyl replicas Réédition de qualité à l'identique en format CD (13,5 x 13,5 cm) du support 33T original: pochette simple en carton épais, album simple sous pochette, étiquette et CD noir donnant...
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Terence Donovan On Directing The Addicted To Love Music Video
Terence Donovan (1936-1996) In 1996, just a few weeks before he died, famous fashion photographer and film director Terence Donovan said: "When I did my 900th interview about that Robert Palmer video Addicted To Love , someone asked me where I got the...
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Phill Brown 1978 Interview
Recording engineer Richard Elen extracts some useful information from well-known recordist Phill Brown For some reasons, engineers tend to be regarded as mere backroom boys: They never seem to become household names at the listening end of the business...
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An Island Anthology 1967-1972: Vinegar Joe
Vinegar Joe are now famous in the annals of rock history as being the band that first brought to prominence two of Britain's foremost vocal talents of the 1970's, Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer. In 1963, Elaine Bookbinder left her hometown of Salford...
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Bruno Tilley On Directing The Every Kinda People Music Video
"I was fortunate to grow up in a creative environment, thanks to my father, Patrick Tilley. He was a renowned illustrator and designer known for his incredible and award-winning campaigns. As a young person, I had the opportunity to earn some extra pocket...
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Pride Of Place
A review of Robert Palmer's concert at the Dominion Theatre in London on May 30, 1983 Pride seemed the main issue at stake at Palmer's Dominion bash, though perhaps in a different and clearer shape than when it served as the title for the man's most recent...
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The Islander: Chris Blackwell On Robert Palmer (part II)
Robert existed in a strange stratum somewhere above cult figure and below major pop star. But his relaxed, charming sense of style, those international-playboy record sleeves, a pure, unflustered love for just singing and his quick-witted reaction to...