25 years ago; Robert Palmer Hits #1 w/Addicted to Love

[simmytbone]

Hey guys,

In 1980, The Late Robert Palmer scored his only #1 Pop Hit in Canada called "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)", but it was 25 years ago in 1986 when Palmer scored his only #1 Pop Hit here in America with a song that he wrote called "Addicted to Love"

The song was also produced by The Late Bernard Edwards of Chic Fame and a man who worked w/Palmer as part of the Supergroup called The Power Station

The song became a #1 Hit on the Mainstream Chart here in America

The music videos for this group of songs, directed by legendary British photographer Terence Donovan were some of the most iconic of the era. The videos feature Palmer performing with an abstract "band," being a group of models whose pale skin, heavy makeup, dark hair and seductive, rather robot-like expression follow the style of women in Patrick Nagel paintings

The models in the video are (from left to right) Patty Kelly, Julie Pankhurst, Teri Marguerite Ryan and Julia Bolino with Kathy Davies at the back on drums.

Teri Marguerite Ryan recalled to Q magazine:

“I was 21 and got the part on the strength of my modelling book. We were meant to look and “act” like showroom mannequins. Director Terence Donovan got us tipsy on a bottle of wine but as we were having our make-up retouched, I lost balance on my heels and knocked the top of my guitar into the back of Robert’s head, and his face then hit the microphone."

Palmer recycled the video's "iconic models" concept for the videos of three other songs of his : "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (also from Riptide), "Simply Irresistible" and the animated "Change His Ways" (both from Heavy Nova)

VH1's Pop-Up Video trivia about the video include the fact that a musician was hired to teach the models basic guitar fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left". The episode also pointed out several choreographical errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no backbeat, such as the second chorus

The music video ranked at number 3 on VH1's Top 20 Videos of the 1980s and was both the first and last video shown on long running UK music programme The Chart Show

The Music Video has either influenced or been parodied by other music videos including:

Tone Lōc's 1988 "Wild Thing"

Paula Abdul's 1989 "Forever Your Girl"

"Weird Al" Yankovic's 1989 "UHF"

Mr Blobby's 1993 music video for "Mr Blobby"

Shania Twain's 1999 video for "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"; employing tongue-in-cheek gender role reversal, this features several male models as musicians backing the female lead singer

Bowling for Soup's video for "1985" released in 2004

Beyoncé's 2007 video for "Green Light", which shares many of the same elements

Queen's 1989 video for "The Miracle"

Ring of Honor wrestler Rhett Titus has begun using the song as his entrance theme

Addicted to Love also became the name of the 1997 Film Starring Film Veterans Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston and the late Maureen Stapleton

The movie's title is based on the same song by Robert Palmer

and now, here it is:

Robert Palmer and his only #1 Pop Hit "Addicted to Love"

Enjoy

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by tnawcwvictoriafa

Hey guys,

it was 25 years ago in 1986 when Palmer scored his only #1 Pop Hit here in America with a song that he wrote called "Addicted to Love"

The song became a #1 Hit on the Mainstream Chart here in America

and now, here it is:

Robert Palmer and his only #1 Pop Hit "Addicted to Love"

Enjoy

"Simply Irresistible" also hit #1 on the Mainstream Chart. While we're at it, let's compare Robert's cover of "Bad Case of Loving You" with Moon Martin's original.

[Vahan]

Addicted to Love, I Didn't Mean to Turn You On, and Simply Irresistible are great songs.

Both versions of "Bad Case of Loving You" are equally good, but Moon Martin's original seems a tad more dramatic (a good thing IMO).

Believe it or not, but there were two different variations of "Bad Case of Loving You" that Robert Palmer officially released. The original had more 70s' synthisizers.