TRIBUTE - Robert Allen Palmer 1949-2003, English singer-songwriter, Producer, Grammy Award winner. The Power Station, Vinegar Joe, Dada, Alan Bown, Mandrakes.
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Welcome to @Addiction_ers #RobertPalmer
"...remember what a fearless and trailblazing artist he really was. Not everything works, but you could say the same about Bowie... And judging him on that one video is akin to only remembering David Bowie for 'Let’s Dance'." ClassicPopMag
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1980, September 26. #RobertPalmer hit Philadelphia PA on the Clues Tour performing at the Tower Theater. Sleek synths, tight grooves, and of course Carribean cool.
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#RobertPalmer 'Collected' first released 10 years ago is to be re-released on purple vinyl. 'Collected' provides a retrospective of Robert Palmer's solo work and tracks with Vinegar Joe, The Alan Bown, and The Power Station, as well as UB40. Limited to 5,000 copies @MusicOnVinyl
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1994, September - 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush' and #RobertPalmer plays Tess. Their quiz topic - 'Robert Palmer'. This is fantastic, and Palmer performs two songs, so watch the show before and after.
youtu.be/Z3xjpRbqv1M?t=779&s…
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#RobertPalmer's 'Pride' is his first album from head to studio 'as conceived'. Check it out!
"It's not difficult to imagine why
It's just difficult to be satisfied"
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Track 10: 'THE SILVER GUN'
I could stand the heartache
If I could see you again
Until then, I am alone,
city to city
Walking the streets
With a heavy heart.
#RobertPalmer
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"I worried that...sections of Pride
may yet prove inaccessible, notably
The Silver Gun. It's an (East) Indian song, he explains. It may be a little too much... I don't know how this one will fly, but I tried to make the song a little more mainstream by writing the English lyrics"
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"Excuse me, but I need a mouth like yours
To help forget the girl that just walked out my door
Don't you wanna be my fantasy?"
Excuse me, but I need your chemistry
(Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married)
"Day by day and night by night
I feel you in my mind..."
- 1983 Pride Tour
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#RobertPalmer's 1983 cover of The System's 1982 song 'You Are In My System', featured their keyboardist/ songwriter David Frank. Palmer's vocals and delivery, as ever, lifted the song to a very memorable hit.
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May 31
Today, Pride still feels like Robert Palmer at his coolest. 9 tracks in 'Waiting for' sustains the sleek, restless, pulsating, exhausting groove of the album. Entirely restless, experimental with lean, shiny and sharp edges. At once 80s new wave, but also far ahead of its time.
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Track 9: 'WHAT YOU WAITING FOR' There are some things you can't ignore
Love and devotions won't conform
But it's not up to me or up to you
Vanity's, ideals demand
were satisfied
With what love plans
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May 30
... Playing with AI is an experiment in seeing what it might get right, or wrong, as in the case of this booklet mock up. The song title is wrong, but the 80s vibe and the Bert Kitchen art is a contrast in dynamic for a cunningly clever album. Pride deserves the attention.
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I began wondering what a reissue with a booklet would look like for 'Pride', an album of huge technical achievement, but overshadowed by all other 1980s #RobertPalmer albums. The movement from 70s funk rock to 80s pop rock segued through new wave and 'Pride' is a worthy mention
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May 29
Track 8: 'YOU CAN HAVE IT (TAKE MY HEART)'
One night while I was sleeping, baby
Had a dream of you and I
Found myself asking you, baby
Take my hand and be my wife
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#RobertPalmer’s Pride album is all cool, hypnotic grooves and percussive minimalism, so “You Can Have It (Take My Heart)” stands out as a warmer, more melodic detour that breaks the album’s trance like flow without breaking its mood. It's 70s funk in an early 80s synth epic.
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Track 7: 'SAY YOU WILL'
Please say that I can take you this moment
Please say you'll let me take you for my wife
Our love will grow tonight if you will
Give me your answer,
give me your answer
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RP: "I was working on a cajun rhythm one afternoon when Rupert Hine walked in and started playing a Glen Miller-style horn arrangement over it. It tickled us pink and, to top it off, I sang the wedding vows to the resulting tune. Making music is lots of fun."
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