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Fact #63023

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Robert Palmer reaches No1 on the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Addicted To Love. The track will become Palmer's signature song, largely thanks to the populartity of its video featuring a band comprising a bunch of sexy high fashion models.

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Robert Palmer : There was a lot of concern throughout the media about various substances, and … a lot of people I was working with were going off to farms to get healthy and do all the various therapies. It strikes me that it’s not the substance, it’s the personality. It’s the addictive personality that’s the problem. If you’re an addictive personality, it doesn’t matter what’s around, you’re gonna get hooked on it. Food, alcohol, current substances, whatever they are … I just thought it was a facetious kind of thing, being addicted to love.

I just dreamed the tune. I woke up and hummed it into my tape recorder. A lot of times when that happens, it’s just nonsense but, in the morning, I listened to it and I knew I’d caught one.

People think the video was my idea all along - that I would happily want to portray myself as a James Bond of boogie. That surprises me because I don’t think about my image at all.

I’ve always left making videos to someone else. I delegate if I don’t know enough about something. So, before Addicted To Love was released, my record company put me in touch with this director - the photographer Terence Donovan.

We booked a date to film me performing the song and I turned up at the studio not knowing what to expect. All he did was ask me to perform the song three times on my own in front of a blue screen. For one take they filmed me up close, for another they took a long shot and the other was from somewhere in between.

It was all over in about twenty minutes. So I went back to the Bahamas, where I was living at the time and, soon afterwards, I received a copy of the video through the post.

When I saw it, I was shocked. He’d planned the whole thing out. He filmed the girls separately from me and edited the two sections together. In the end, it looked like a photo shoot from Vogue. He’d worked for those magazines, so knew all the right people to do that kind of thing.

I was quite surprised at the video, but I thought it was good because it was camp, funny and glamourous all at the same time. I liked the juxtaposition of the world of fashion with a steaming rock song.
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