May 3, 1986 –
Robert Palmer, blue-eyed soul crooner, had his first No. #1 hit on the Billboard Charts with Addicted to Love, on this date.
The video featured Palmer singing in front of a “band” of beautiful women who looked exactly alike. They wore lots of makeup and identical clothing as they pretended to play the instruments. Elton John’s lyricist Bernie Taupin makes a pretty good case that the models in the video were influenced by the song Bennie And The Jets, where he wrote about a futuristic rock band of androgynous beauties. Said Taupin: “I can’t help but believe that that Robert Palmer video with all the identical models somehow paid a little lip service to The Jets.“
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