Robert Allen Palmer (January 19, 1949 - September 26, 2003) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is known for his distinctive, affectionate voice, a mixture of musical styles on his album, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues, and sharpness of fashion. He found success both in his solo career and with Power Station, and has 10 Top tracks in the UK and USA.
The famous music video directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan for "Addicted to Love", "Simply Irresistible" and "I Does not Mean to Turn You On" hits featured an identical woman dress up with a pale face, dark eye makeup and red lipstick bright, resembling a woman in the art of Patrick Nagel, a popular artist in the 1980s. Palmer's involvement in the music industry began in the 1960s, spanning four decades and including a spell with Vinegar Joe. Palmer received numerous awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards for Best Male Vocal Performance, an MTV Video Music Award, and two Brit Award nominations for Best British Male.
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1964-1973: Band awal
Palmer's father was a British naval intelligence officer stationed in Malta. Palmer moved with his family from Batley (where he was born) to Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1949. Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music at American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough High School for Boys. His first big break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden from the band The Alan Bown Set in 1969, after Palmer was invited to London to sing on their single "Gypsy Girl". The vocals for The Alan Bown Set! , originally recorded by Roden (and released in the US that way), re-recorded by Palmer after the success of the single. According to music journalist Paul Lester, Palmer rose from the northern clubs in England to become "elegant and sophisticated" and mastered several styles.
In 1970 Palmer joined the 12-piece jazz-rock fusion band Dada, featuring singer Elkie Brooks and her husband Pete Gage. After a year, Palmer, Brooks and Gage formed a soul/rock band, Vinegar Joe. Palmer plays the rhythm guitar in the band, and shares the lead vocals with Brooks. Signed to the Island Records label, they released three albums: Vinegar Joe (1972), Rock 'n' Roll Gypsies (1972) and General Star Six i> 1973), before disbanding in March 1974. Brooks later said that Palmer "is a very handsome man", and that female fans love to discover that Brooks and Palmer are not linked romantically. Maps Robert Palmer (singer)
1974-1984: The beginning of a solo career
Island Records signed Palmer for a solo deal in 1974. Her first solo album Sneakin 'Sally Through the Alley recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1974, was heavily influenced by Little Feat music and fusion funk from Meter who acted as a supporting band alongside producer/guitarist Lowell George of Little Feat. Although not successful in the UK, both album and single reached the Top 100 in the US. In particular, "Sailin 'Shoes" (the album's first track), Palmer's "Hey Julia" and the title song Allen Toussaint-writes bring almost the same rhythm, and packed in the album as a "trilogy" without a pause between them..
After moving with his wife to New York City, Palmer released Pressure Drop, named for a cover version of reggae that hit Toots and Maytals, in November 1975 (featuring Motown James Jamerson bassist). She toured with Little Feat to promote reggae and rock-infused albums.
However, with the follow-up album failure Some People Can Do What They Love , Palmer decided to move to Nassau, Bahamas, just across the street from Compass Point Studios.
In 1978, he released Double Fun , a Caribbean-influenced rock collection, including the cover of "You Really Got Me". The album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard chart and scored the top 20 songs with Andy Fraser-writing "Every Agry People". The song has been covered by other artists including Chaka Demus and Tang, Randy Crawford and Amy Grant. It reached number 16 on Billboard Hot 100.
Palmer's next album is an artistic departure, concentrating on pure rock. 1979's Secrets produced their second Top 20 single with Moon Martin's "Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)". The number 14 hit also gave Palmer his first Billboard Hot 100-year hit.
The 1980s saw Palmer discover an increasing number of commercial successes. The Clues album, produced by Palmer and featuring Chris Frantz and Gary Numan, produced hits on both sides of the Atlantic, first with radio-friendly "Johnny and Mary" and then "Looking for Clues". Interesting music videos that fit the new wave synth-pop style gave him much needed exposure to a younger audience. The success was repeated with the 1982 EP release of Some Guys Have All the Luck .
In April 1983 Pride was released, which although not commercially successful as Clues , featured Palmer's cover song and cover from "You Are in My System" System, with David Frank's System donate the keyboard track to the last song. On May 31, 1983, Palmer's concert at Hammersmith Palais was recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 1. On July 23, 1983, Palmer performed at the Duran Duran charity concert on Aston Villa football field, where he attacked friends with Duran Duran members who would spawn supergroup of Power Plant.
1985-1997: Power Station and MTV success
When Duran Duran went on hiatus, guitarist Andy Taylor and bassist John Taylor joined former Chic drummer Tony Thompson and Palmer to form Power Station. Their eponymous album, recorded primarily in the band's New York recording studio, with overdubs and mixing at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, reached the Top 20 in the UK and Top 10 in the US. It spawned two hit singles with "Some Like It Hot" (AS number 6) and cover song T. Rex "Get It On (Bang a Gong)", which peaked a position higher than the original in US number 9. Palmer performed live with the band only once that year, on Saturday Night Live. The band toured, and played Live Aid, with singer Michael Des Barres after Palmer bowed at the last moment to return to the recording studio to advance his solo career.
With Palmer bailing on the tour, some critics call it "unprofessional behavior". In the magazine's Number One, he replied to claims that he joined the band for money: "First, I do not need money, and both cash is not exactly long coming." It's not exactly the experience that set me up for retirement. "He is also accused of ripping Power Station's voice for his own record. He yelled, "Listen, I give the Power Station that goes, they take it from me, not the other way around."
Palmer recorded the album Riptide at Compass Point Studios in 1985, recruiting Thompson and Andy Taylor to play on several songs plus Power Station recorder Bernard Edwards, who worked with Thompson at Chic, to lead the production. Riptide displays AS number 1 and number 5 UK singles "Addicted to Love". The single was accompanied by an impressive and much imitated music video, directed by Terence Donovan, in which Palmer was surrounded by an almost identical, fictitious (and aptly pouty) band of "female" musicians, either mimicking or mocking painting styles Patrick Nagel. In September 1986, Palmer performed "Addicted to Love" at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. In 1987, she won a Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Appearance for "Addicted to Love". At the 1987 Brit Awards, Palmer received his first nomination for Best British Male.
Another one from Riptide, the cover of Cherrelle's "I Did not Turn You On", also performs well (US number 2, UK number 9). Another song, "Trick Bag," was written by one of its main influences, New Orleans jazz artist Earl King.
Concerned about the rising crime rate in Nassau, Palmer moved to Lugano, Switzerland in 1987 and set up his own recording studio. Producing Heavy Nova in 1988, Palmer resumed experimenting, this time with the bossa nova rhythm, heavy rock and white-soul balladeering. He repeated the previous success of "Addicted to Love" with the video "Simply Irresistible", again with a group of female "musicians". The song reached number 2 in the US and the last Top Ten Palmer was there. She Makes My Day ballad also proved to be a hit in the UK, peaking at number 6. In 1989, she won her second Grammy for "Simply Irresistible", which will be featured in Tony Award-winning music. > Contacts . In the 1989 Brit Awards, Palmer received a second nomination for Best British Male, and "Simply Irresistible" was nominated for Best British Single. Rolling Stone chose Palmer as a rock star with the best costumes for 1990.
Palmer extended its reach even further for the next album, Do not Explain (1990). It featured two top 10 UK hits with Bob Dylan cover "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (collaboration with UB40) and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me". Throughout the 1990s, Palmer explored further into various materials. The 1992 album Ridin 'High is a tribute to the Tin Pan Alley era.
In 1994, Palmer released Honey to various reviews. While the album failed to produce hit singles in the US, he found success in the UK with the release of three hit singles "Girl U Want", "Know by Now" and "You Blow Me Away".
In 1995, Palmer released the biggest hits album, which reached number four in the UK. In 1995 he reunited with another member of Power Station to record his second album. Bassist John Taylor eventually retired from the project, to be replaced by Bernard Edwards. Palmer and other band members completed the album Living in Fear (1996), and had just started on tour when Edwards died of pneumonia.
In 1997, Palmer performed with Rod Stewart at Wembley.
Personal life
Palmer met his future wife Sue at the Slough train station in 1968, interested in his style (silver boots and matching mini dress) and by a science fiction book he was reading. They married two years later, and had two children, Jim and Jane. The family moved to New York in the mid-1970s and then to the Bahamas a few years later. In 1993, Palmer moved to Lugano, Switzerland, after he discovered that the islands were unsafe due to drugs and gun violence. She divorced the same year.
Death
Palmer died in a Paris hotel room from a heart attack on September 26, 2003 at the age of 54. He has been in the French capital after recording a television appearance in London for Yorkshire TV, a retrospective entitled "My Kinda People". He survived by his parents, his son and daughter, his brother Mark, and his girlfriend Mary Ambrose. Among those who pay tribute is Duran Duran, stating: "He is a very dear friend and a great artist.This is a tragic loss to the British music industry."
Discography
References
External links
- Full discography
- the BBC obituary
- Robert Palmer at Discover Mausoleum
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