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Sweet Lies (Robert Palmer Song)
"Sweet Lies" is a song by the English singer Robert Palmer, released in 1988 as a single from the soundtrack of the film of the same name. As well as appearing on the film's soundtrack release, it was also included on Palmer's 1989 compilation album '' Addictions: Volume 1''. The song was written by Palmer, Frank Blair and Dony Wynn, and produced by Palmer. Background Palmer's first single release since 1986, "Sweet Lies" was released by Island Records from the forthcoming ''Sweet Lies'' motion picture soundtrack. The single peaked at No. 94 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and remained in the Top 100 for two weeks. In the UK, the song fared better, reaching No. 58 and remaining in the charts for three weeks. In Michael Luckman's book ''Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection'', Palmer is quoted as having called "Sweet Lies" "a lovely record," and confessed it wrote itself, much like his 1988 hit single "She Makes My Day". He was quoted "It came out of th ...
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Robert Palmer (singer)
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and for his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. While his "four-decade career incorporated every genre of music", Palmer is best known "for the pounding rock-soul classic, " Addicted to Love", and its accompanying video, which came to epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s." Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe, he found success in the 1980s, both in his solo career and with the Power Station, scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Three of his hit singles, including "Addicted to Love", featured music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan. Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards fo ...
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Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Island Records operates four international divisions: Island US, Island UK, Island Australia, and Island France (known as Vertigo France until 2014). Current key people include Island US president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to its significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels. Artists who have signed to Island Records include Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Queen, Jethro Tull, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brian Eno, Demi Lo ...
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Simply Irresistible (song)
"Simply Irresistible" is the first single released by English rock singer Robert Palmer from the 1988 studio album ''Heavy Nova'' and is presented in one of the most distinctive and memorable music videos of the 1980s. In 1988, the song reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart, being denied the top spot for two weeks by Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine." It was No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for three weeks. It also earned Palmer his second Grammy Award the following year, and the song was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single.BRITs Profile: Robert Palmer
. Brits.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2012
'' Cash Box'' called it a "hard charging power-guitar fueled rocker."
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Sweet Lies (film)
''Sweet Lies'' is a 1988 film from Island Pictures, directed by Nathalie Delon and starring Treat Williams as an insurance investigator in Paris who becomes the object of a bet made by three women, who start to fall for him. Its title track was performed by Robert Palmer. Plot Cast * Treat Williams as David Carroll * Joanna Pacuła as Joelle * Julianne Phillips as Dixie * Norbert Weisser Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born actor based in the US. Based in Venice, California, he is a founding member of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the ProVisional Theater, and the Padua Playwrights Festival. A long-time collaborator ... as Bill * Brendan Kelly as Nino Scrocco External links * 1988 films 1988 romantic comedy films Films set in Paris American romantic comedy films Films scored by Trevor Jones English-language French films 1980s American films {{1980s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ...
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Soundtrack
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track (''dialogue track'', ''sound effects track'', and '' music track''), and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the f ...
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Pride (Robert Palmer Album)
''Pride'' is the seventh studio album by English singer Robert Palmer, released in April 1983 by Island Records. The album peaked at No. 37 in the UK Albums Chart. The album also peaked at No. 12 in France, No. 15 in the Netherlands and No. 36 in Sweden. Critical reception In a contemporaneous review, ''The Globe and Mail'' found that Palmer "has created a synthesis of English mainstream pop and heavy black rhythms, utilizing various combinations of more roots-oriented West Indian music such as calypso and soca, the almost-tribal rhythms of such African musicians as King Sunny Ade, and to a lesser degree, the more familiar patterns of urban American funk." A retrospective review concluded that " hesuave British musician's 1983 project added a new, contemporary funk edge to his musical palette", and noted that the album, "once again self-produced, showed a typically eclectic range of styles". Another reviewer found that "The Silver Gun”, which is sung in Urdu, is "a very ha ...
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Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" is a 1978 song, written and originally recorded by Moon Martin and sung a year later by Robert Palmer. The song became one of Palmer's definitive hits. Background Moon Martin originally recorded the song in 1978. Martin's record label Capitol Records released the song in the United Kingdom and Spain as a stand-alone vinyl single but inserted the song into the United States release of Martin's album ''Shots from a Cold Nightmare''. His original recording did not enter the music charts. Robert Palmer version A year later, the song appeared on Robert Palmer's 1979 album ''Secrets''. In Palmer's home country, the United Kingdom, the song debuted and peaked at #61 on the UK Singles Chart on 7 July 1979. The version became more successful in other countries. In the United States, Palmer's version reached #14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, #10 on the '' Cash Box'' Top 100, and #1 on the Canadian ''RPM'' chart in 1979. The Palmer version was r ...
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Robert Palmer may refer to: Academics * Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002), historian * Robert E. A. Palmer or R. E. A. Palmer (1933–2006), classical scholar and ancient historian * Robert Brian Palmer (born 1934), British-American nuclear physicist and researcher Business * Robert Palmer (computer businessman) (born 1940), CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation * Robert W. Palmer, land appraiser for Madison Guaranty; pleaded guilty in Whitewater controversy * Robert Palmer (vintner) (1934–2009), American advertising executive and vintner Music * Robert Palmer (singer) (1949–2003), English singer-songwriter and musician * Robert Moffat Palmer (1915–2010), American composer Politics and military * Robert Palmer (MP) (1793–1872), English Conservative Member of Parliament * Robert Moffett Palmer (1820–1862), American diplomat and politician * Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme (1890–1977), General Secretary of the British Co-operative Union and member of the House of Lor ...
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