Robert Palmer had been showing on report for totally 17 years, and making his personal albums for a dozen, when he grew to become the brand new sensation of the MTV era. Within the first week of Could 1986, as he obtained wall-to-wall publicity on the omnipotent video channel and on radio, the Yorkshire-born stylist was at No.1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 with “Addicted To Love.”
The unimaginable pervasiveness of the promo clip, with its guitar-laden trend fashions, grew to become one of many defining pop photos of the Nineteen Eighties and the video period normally. A lot so, the truth is, that it has rivalled the reminiscence of the tune itself, which first emerged as a monitor on Palmer’s eighth studio album Riptide, late in 1985.
Recorded at Compass Level Studios in Nassau within the Bahamas, the LP was produced by Stylish bassist and writer-producer Bernard Edwards, who had simply overseen the self-titled 1985 album by the Energy Station. Palmer was, in fact, a member of that spinoff supergroup, as have been two different contributors to Riptide, Andy Taylor, and Tony Thompson.
Palmer succeeds Prince
“Addicted To Love” wasn’t even the primary single from Riptide. “Discipline Of Love” had been launched alongside the album and reached simply No.82 on the Scorching 100. It peaked at an much more modest No.95 in his dwelling nation. However the second single was a special story altogether. The American market led the way in which with “Addicted,” which entered the US pop chart in February 1986, three months earlier than it debuted within the UK.
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The only climbed to No.1 on the Scorching 100 for Could 3, finishing an epic 13-week run to the summit. It changed Prince and the Revolution’s “Kiss” within the course of, in a banner week all spherical for Palmer in America. Riptide climbed 13-9 in its twenty fourth week to develop into his first US Prime 10 album.
Purchase or stream “Addicted To Love” on Riptide.
