Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer (1986)

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Additional information about this, Robert Palmer vinyl art.

Robert Palmer – The Artist

Robert Allen Palmer ( 1949 – 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, his sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. His 1986 song “Addicted to Love” and its accompanying video came to “epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980’s.”

Addicted to Love – The Song

Addicted to Love is a song by English rock singer Robert Palmer released in 1986. It is the third song on Palmer’s eighth studio album Riptide (1985) and was released as its third single. The single version is a shorter edit of the full-length album version. The Song was an International hit. “Addicted to Love” became Palmer’s signature song, thanks in part to a popular video featuring high fashion models. Most guitar parts, including the solo, were played by Eddie Martinez. Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (and a bandmate of Palmer’s from the Power Station) added rhythm guitar. Keyboards were played by Wally Badarou. As well as producing the song, Bernard Edwards played the bass. The song’s opening drum solo is by Tony Thompson, another Power Station alumnus.
The music video (which uses the shorter single version of this song), directed by English photographer Terence Donovan, was one of the most noted of the era. The video features Palmer performing the song with an abstract “band”, a group of female models whose pale skin, heavy makeup, dark hair, and seductive, rather mannequin-like expression follow the style of women in Patrick Nagel paintings. The five models in the video are Julie Pankhurst (keyboard), Patty Kelly (guitar), Mak Gilchrist (bass guitar), Julia Bolino (guitar), and Kathy Davies (drums).

The Female Model – The Shape

This record has been crafted into an image of one of the female models who performed on the music video and appeared on the records picture sleeve and copies of the picture disc.

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