Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

1985) The music video was directed by Terence Donovan, in which Palmer's backing band is a group of mini-skirted identical women whose pale skin, strong makeup, and black hair makes them resemble the women in Patrick Nagel paintings. The video is notable for being the first (and last) one shown on long running UK music programme The Chart Show. Palmer recycled the video's "identical women" concept for the videos of three other songs of his; namely "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 video was very popular and was referenced/parodied in several videos, including Beyoncé's "Green Light", which shares many of the same elements. It is also referenced in Mr Blobby's music video for "Mr Blobby", Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", in which Palmer's women are substituted for men dancing in the same way. Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing," Bowling for Soup's "1985" and "Weird Al" Yankovic's "UHF." In addition, Weird Al parodied the song itself in a song called "Addicted to Spuds". As well, Bill Nighy's character, Billy Mack, parodies the video in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually, and 13 years earlier Leslie Nielsen's character, Father Jebedaiah Mayii, parodies the same in the 1990 comedy "horror" film Repossessed. It was also used in a dream sequence of Dr. Joel Fleischman in an episode of Northern Exposure. The 2006 Super Bowl spot of the TV series "Lost" featured an edited version of the video with inserted images of the show's first and second seasons and modified lyrics that changed the word "love" for "Lost" (hence the title, "Addicted to Lost"). The Video ranked at number 3 on VH1's top 20 videos of the 80's. _________________________________________ Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 -- 26 September 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, was an English singer-songwriter. He was known for his soulful voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop and blues.

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Added: April 3, 2008