It wasn't just "Addicted to Love", "Simply Irresistible" was another big favourite!
Strangely there is no official clip permissible here!
No doubt Shania Twain was paying tribute with this one:
Robert Palmer had been appearing on record for fully 17 years, and making his own albums for a dozen, when he became the new sensation of the MTV generation. 30 years ago exactly, as he received wall-to-wall exposure on the all-powerful video channel and on radio, the Yorkshire-born stylist was at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Addicted To Love.’
The incredible pervasiveness of the promo clip, with its guitar-laden fashion models, became one of the defining pop images of the 1980s and the video era in general. So much so, in fact, that it has rivalled the memory of the song itself, which first emerged as a track on Palmer’s eighth studio album Riptide, late in 1985.
Recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau in the Bahamas, the LP was produced by Chic bassist and writer-producer Bernard Edwards, who had just overseen the self-titled 1985 album by the Power Station. Palmer was, of course, a member of that spinoff supergroup, as were two other contributors to Riptide, Andy Taylor and Tony Thompson. ‘Addicted To Love’ wasn’t even the first single from Riptide, with ‘Discipline Of Love’ being released alongside the album and reaching just No. 82 on the Hot 100. It peaked at an even more modest No. 95 in his home country. But the second single was a different story altogether. The American market led the way with ‘Addicted,’ which entered the US pop chart in February 1986, three months before it debuted in the UK.
The single climbed to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 3 May, completing an epic 13-week run to the summit and replacing Prince and the Revolution’s ‘Kiss’ in the process. It was a banner week all round for Palmer in America, as Riptide climbed 13-9 in its 24th week to become his first US top ten album.
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