Robert Palmer - Dead at 54
by the guy who defined 'video eye candy' is no more.
although i liked enough of his music to pick up his 'greatest hits' cd, i can't say i was a big fan. 'addicted to love' was ok, but at least it spawned a more-memorable 'addicted to spuds' parody. and 'simply irresistable' has been reduced to commercial jingle-dom.
it's too bad he went so quietly. i don't see any 'tribute concerts' going on. i guess he wasn't that big a deal.
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he died last month, right? i used to love robert palmer! 'addicted to love' and 'simply irresistable.' classics. the videos were so awesome too! he had girls, who didn't play the instruments they were carrying, swaying back and forth looking at the camera seductively. top shelf.
yeah, i think it was 9/29 or something.
tell me about it, i wrote something in the musings, nobody said a thing. I don't think alot of the younger generation knew him. Or maybe they did. But its not like Paul McCartney died, ya gotta be newborn not to kno who HE is.
yo i'm confused, was this dude in The Cure??
no no okay remember Shania Twain's video for "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"...she basically copied robert palmer's video for "Addicted to Love." i think all his videos were him and those models "playing" the instruments behind him. he sang songs you'd know...i.e. do you remember "Simply Irresistable"?
yeah. that song sounded like huey lewis on nyquil
sorry for the dup, then. i haven't been in the musings for about 3000+ messages now. as for the newborn comment...that may be tru for those around here, but even the news didn't seem to cover it. i found an article on like page 82 of the star ledger's saturday paper, a few saturday's ago. it didn't make the front page.
not a dup, a reminder. there was a real short thing in the end of the Newsday Sunday paper after his deth, and a few blurbs on TV. I rememeber him from the 70s. Then he got more popular in the 80s with those videos.
Then he seemed to disappear. See him in the new system?
i hope so, cuz that'll mean that i'm there!