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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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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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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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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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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 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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1989 International Rock Awards Photo Sessions
Le 31 mai 1989 se déroule à New York la première cérémonie de remise des International Rock Awards qui récompensent les meilleurs musiciens du genre au cours de l'année écoulée. Figurent notamment à cette cérémonie Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, David...
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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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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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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...
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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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Firing Up The Power Station (part 1)
Firing Up ‘The Power Station’ for a 40th Anniversary Boxed Set: Duran Duran’s John Taylor on Coralling Robert Palmer and Members of Chic for a True Pop Supergroup. As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor...
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Firing Up The Power Station (part 2)
Robert Palmer, by 1984, was a cooly composed, eclectic, British R&B-rock vocal legend — a “concessioner of many things,” by Taylor’s estimation — without having ever had a huge, continuous presence on the charts since his solo album debut with Sneakin'...
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Soulman Palmer Sizzles
In August 1985, British rock group Power Station played a Lansdowne Park concert without soul smoothie Robert Palmer in the lineup and the result was disappointing. Fill-in vocalist Michael Des Barres just couldn't match Palmer's eclectic musical presence,...
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How To Get Rid Of The Nude In Your Bedroom (part I)
Robert Palmer, who's Big In America, finds his musical progress rather cluttered with scantily clad femininity. Tony Stewart murmurs disapprovingly. Somehow it's still hard to accept that Robert Palmer is becoming an established solo artist in America,...
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My Life In Dire Straits
Titre : My Life In Dire Straits Auteur : John Illsley Date de publication : 2021 Editeur : Diversion Books (US) / Bantam Press (UK) Type : Essai Dans ses mémoires, le bassiste de Dire Straits revient notamment sur l'enregistrement de l'album Communiqué...
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The Interview
The dapper Yorkshire crooner is back with his first album in five years. He may not be as slim as he was in his 80's prime, but he's still addicted to love, thanks to his current muse. Robert Palmer saunters into the Milan restaurant looking - at least...
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Some Guys Have All The Hits
It's hard to be a superstar in today's tough musical world. Caught for a long time between ever-changing trends, Robert Palmer finally found his blue-eyed soul after a good deal of searching. Several glasses of Smirnoff later, the Northern rock'n'blues...
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Honey
Titre : Honey Date de publication : 1994 Label : EMI Type : Album Classement : UK#25 Morceaux : 1. Honey A 2. Honey B 3. You're Mine 4. Know By Now 5. Nobody But You 6. Love Takes Time 7. Honeymoon 8. You Blow Me Away 9. Close To The Edge 10. Closer To...
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The Very Best Of Robert Palmer
Titre : The Very Best Of Robert Palmer Date de publication : 1995 (UE) / 1997 (US) Label : EMI (UE) / Capitol (US) Type : Compilation Classement : UK#4 Récompenses : Disque de Platine UK Morceaux : 1. Addicted To Love (edit) 2. Bad Case Of Loving You...
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Robert Palmer's Acceptable Success
Robert Palmer's success - at last - must be as gratifying to his long faithful followers as it is to him. But if success is changing him, blue-eyed soul singer Palmer doesn't show it. Sure, he has all the style and cool evident on his fine first album...