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Addicted to Love (song)

"Addicted to Love"
Addicted to Love.jpg
Cover art for UK and European editions
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Riptide
B-side "Remember to Remember"
Released January 1986
Format
Recorded 1985
Genre
Length
  • 6:01 (album version)
  • 4:04 (single version)
Label Island
Writer(s) Robert Palmer
Producer(s) Bernard Edwards
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"Riptide"
(1986)
"Addicted to Love"
(1986)
"Hyperactive"
(1986)
"Addicted to Love (Live)"
Tina Turner - Addicted to Love (Live).jpg
Single by Tina Turner
from the album Tina Live in Europe
B-side
  • "Overnight Sensation" (Live)
  • "Legs" (Live)
Released 1988
Format
Genre Rock
Length 5:10 (single mix)
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Robert Palmer
Producer(s) John Hudson
Tina Turner singles chronology
"Nutbush City Limits (Live)"
(1988)
"Addicted to Love" (Live)
(1988)
"Tonight (Live)"
(1988)

"Addicted to Love" is a song by English rock singer Robert Palmer released in 1986. It has become his signature song, thanks in part to a popular video featuring high fashion models. Other artists have since released versions of it.

It is the third song on Palmer's Riptide album and was released as its second single. The single version is a shorter edit of the full length album version.

The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending 8 February 1986. The song ended up topping the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. It was one of the last 45 RPM singles to receive a million-selling Gold certification. It also reached number one in Australia and number five on the UK Singles Chart.

Originally intended to be a duet with Chaka Khan, the song was made without her because her record company at the time would not grant her a release to work on Palmer's label, Island Records. Chaka Khan, however, is still credited for the vocal arrangements in the album liner notes.

Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (and a bandmate of Palmer's from The Power Station) provides lead guitar. The other guitar part on the song is played by Eddie Martinez and keyboards by Wally Badarou. The song is also notable for its unaccompanied drum opening, by Tony Thompson.

Noddy Holder (the lead vocalist of English rock band Slade) stated in an interview that this song was the main track he wished he'd written himself. "The one main song that I wish that I'd written and recorded is 'Addicted to Love' by Robert Palmer. To me, that's a perfect pop song. Everything about it really hits the nail on the head."

The 1986-produced music video (which uses the shorter single version of this song), directed by British photographer Terence Donovan, was one of the most iconic of the era. The video features Palmer performing the song with an abstract "band", being a group of female models whose pale skin, heavy makeup, dark hair and seductive, rather mannequin-like expression follow the style of women in Patrick Nagel paintings.


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