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episode date - September 26, 2003
There always seems to be a seat – no matter how many stops it has made over the last few weeks - on the bus to the road to nowhere. Robert Palmer probably never realized he was about to get on board, sitting in a place that seemingly should have been reserved for further on down the road. Sadly though, he was found dead in Paris this morning at age 54 from an apparent heart attack.
Ironically, Palmer had just released a new album of rhythm and blues entitled Drive -- (in retrospect, eerily named) – an album he was quoted as saying, was made completely for himself; “the first record I’ve made which I play for my own pleasure…”
The British musician has had a career that spanned over three decades. Refining his style with such bands as Da Da and Vinegar Joe, Palmers’ 1975 smash solo album Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley got him massive attention and college radio play in the US. Singles such as “Pressure Drop”, “Man Smart, Women Smarter”, “Every Kinda People” “Johnny and Mary” and “Bad Case of Lovin’ You” made this velvet throated singer a fixture on the airwaves.
Moving into somewhat curious territory in 1985, he would team up with a hot bunch of contemporary artists, guitarists John and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran and Chic’s drummer Tony Thompson, to form The Power Station. With tracks and videos of the singles “Some Like it Hot” and a cover of T. Rex’s “Get It On”, it would seem this new direction would root and prosper. But that would not be the case.
1986 saw Palmer morph musical personalities once again and it was on MTV that Palmer would get his biggest career kick. His unforgettable 1986 song and video, “Addicted to Love” and 1987’s “Simply Irresistible” -- resplendent with “those girls in black” – put him on a track that would cement him as one of the greatest artists of the decade.
For more on the legendary artist, go to
robertpalmer.com
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