Addicted To Love

ROBERT PALMER Would Have Celebrated His 75 Birthday Today

Posted on by JL

19 January 2024

Celebrated singer/songwriter ROBERT PALMER was born in Batley,
England on 19 January 1949. Happy 75 to an exquisite artist.

He recorded/released 14th LPs. All here.

He scored several single hits such as Every Kinda People, Bad Case Of Loving You,
Looking For Clues, John And Mary, and of course Addicted To Love (more than
158 million streams on Spotify).

Palmer passed away on 26 September 2003, following a heart attack, only aged 54. R.I.P.

VERY BEST


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Robert Palmer: Bio

(Image on top: cover of his ‘Collected’ album)

TINA TURNER Broke A Record In RIO DE JANEIRO This Day In 1988

Posted on by JL

16 January 2024

The late great TINA TURNER who passed away last year, aged 83, played an open-air show at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio De Janeiro on this day in 1988. She performed for a massive crowd of 182,000 people. The largest audience ever for a single artist.

ADDICTED TO LOVE

A.w.e.s.o.m.e

FULL CONCERT

TINA TURNER: Bio – Discography – Instagram

ROBERT PALMER – 19 Jan 1949 / 26 Sept 2003

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Songsmith ROBERT PALMER had a cracking career until his sudden
death. He would have celebrated his 74th birthday today.

He died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Paris after a TV
appearance. He was buried in Lugano, Switserland. R.I.P.

One of his best-known hits is, undoubtedly,
ADDICTED TO LOVE from his 1985 LP Riptide

Here’s the iconic video clip.

ROBERT PALMER: Bio – Discography

ROBERT PALMER Topped US Singles Chart With ‘ADDICTED TO LOVE’ 35 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

4 May 2021

Artist: ROBERT PALMER (Batley, England)
19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003 – only 54

Single: ADDICTED TO LOVE
Score: #1 on the US Singles Chart
35 years ago today – 4 May 2021

Album: Riptide

Note: The accompanying clip was a remarkable/memorable event in itself with Palmer backed by a group of sensual moving mannequins looking like robots with pale skin, red lips, layers of make-up, staring eyes and a cold, yet utterly cool expression on their face, following the style of women in the paintings of the late American artist Patrick Nagel.

Here comes the heat…

ROBERT PALMER: Facebook