-->

• British rock, pop and blue-eyed soul singer/songwriter Robert Palmer worked as a successful solo artist from the mid-Seventies through the mid-Eighties before teaming up with Duran Duran's guitarist and bassist Andy and John Taylor and accomplished session drummer Tony Thompson to form The Power Station in 1985.

  Palmer resumed his solo work right on the heels of the Power Station's massive MTV success and immediately scored again with the release of one of the video network's most iconic clips, "Addicted to Love."

• Fast Facts

  1. Full name: Robert Allen Palmer
  2. Born: January 19, 1949
  3. Birthplace: Batley, Yorkshire, England
  4. Died: September 26, 2003
  5. Cause: Heart attack
  6. "Addicted to Love" won the 1987 Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

• An MTV Icon

  The concept for the video for "Addicted to Love" was so simple—place Palmer and band on a small soundstage with a colorful backdrop and have them perform the song. The genius move, however, was substituting gorgeous, statuesque women in identical short black dresses, jet black schoolmarm hairdo's, and the fullest, reddest lips ever seen on film for the band. The rest is MTV history.

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Duran Duran | Rod Stewart | Billy Joel | The Cars | Billy Idol

Categories

• View History
• Discuss on the Message Board
• Embed this Page
• Share this page