Addicted to Love (song)#Tina Turner version
{{short description|1986 single by Robert Palmer}}
{{About|the Robert Palmer song|other uses|Addicted to Love (disambiguation)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Addicted to Love
| cover = Addicted to Love.jpg
| alt = A model with a hand raised covering her eyes, her other hand is on her hip. She is wearing a black dress and dark tights. Her face is heavy with makeup, the white of her face contrasting dramatically with her red lips. The background is a filled by a sheet of music notation.
| caption = Picture sleeve for UK and European editions of the single (photographer, Peter Ashworth)
| type = single
| artist = Robert Palmer
| album = Riptide
| B-side = Remember to Remember
| released = January 1986{{cite book|first= Tony |last= Bacon |year= 2006 |title= Singles |publisher= Backbeat UK |page= 223 |isbn= 978-1-871547-73-3}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Rock{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" |website= Stereogum |date= 4 December 2020 |access-date= 6 April 2022 |url= https://www.stereogum.com/2109297/the-number-ones-robert-palmers-addicted-to-love/columns/the-number-ones/}}{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/robert-palmer-clues/|title=Robert Palmer: Clues|work=Pitchfork|date=December 22, 2024|access-date=January 22, 2025|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas}} • dance-rock
| length =
- 6:03 (album version)
- 4:04 (single version)
| label = Island
| writer = Robert Palmer
| producer = Bernard Edwards
| prev_title = Riptide
| prev_year = 1986
| next_title = Hyperactive
| next_year = 1986
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|XcATvu5f9vE|"Addicted to Love"}}}}
}}
"Addicted to Love" is a song by English rock singer Robert Palmer released in 1986. It is the third song on Palmer's eighth studio album Riptide (1985) and was released as its third single. The single version is a shorter edit of the full-length album version.
The song entered the US Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending 8 February 1986. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, and it received a gold certification for shipping half a million copies in the United States. It also reached number one in Australia and number five on the UK Singles Chart. "Addicted to Love" became Palmer's signature song, thanks in part to a popular video featuring high fashion models.{{cite news|title= #10 -- "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer -- #10 |newspaper= Chicago Tribune |access-date= 11 July 2014 |url= http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/gallery/p2p-74572046/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 27 May 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190527232319/http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/gallery/p2p-74572046/}}
Background
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 is still credited for the vocal arrangements in the album liner notes.
Most guitar parts, including the solo, were played by Eddie Martinez.{{cite magazine|first= Matt |last= Blackett |date= 1 February 2004 |title= Guitar Player Magazine Interview |magazine= Guitar Player |via= Myspace |url= http://www.myspace.com/eddiepmartinez/blog/493237306 |archive-date= 15 January 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130115101748/http://www.myspace.com/eddiepmartinez/blog/493237306}} Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (and a bandmate of Palmer's from the Power Station) added rhythm guitar. Keyboards were played by Wally Badarou. As well as producing the song, Bernard Edwards played the bass.{{cite web|first= Rob |last= Burns |date= June 2018 |title= Deep Thinking: Addicted To Chic |website=NZmusician |url=https://nzmusician.co.nz/lessons/deep-thinking-addicted-to-chic/ |archive-date= 16 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211016183103/https://nzmusician.co.nz/lessons/deep-thinking-addicted-to-chic/}} The song's opening drum solo is by Tony Thompson, another Power Station alumnus.
Music video
File:Robert-Palmer-Sunset-Strip-(edit).jpg
The music video (which uses the shorter single version of this song), directed by English photographer Terence Donovan,{{cite news|title= Telling it how it really was |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 15 March 1999 |access-date= 28 July 2013 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/mar/15/features11.g23}} was one of the most noted of the era. The video features Palmer performing the song with an abstract "band", 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.
The five models in the video are Julie Pankhurst (keyboard), Patty Kelly (guitar), Mak Gilchrist (bass guitar), Julia Bolino (guitar), and Kathy Davies (drums).{{cite web |last1=Nobleman |first1=Marc T. |author1-link=Marc Tyler Nobleman |title=The Girl in the Video: 'Addicted to Love' (1986), part 1 of 3 |url=https://www.noblemania.com/2013/07/the-girl-in-video-addicted-to-love-1986.html |website=Noblemania |date=24 July 2013 |id=[Interview]}}
Mak Gilchrist recalled to Q:
I was 21 and got the part on the strength of my modelling book. We were meant to look and "act" like showroom mannequins. Director Terence Donovan got us tipsy on a bottle of wine but as we were having our make-up retouched, I lost balance on my heels and knocked the top of my guitar into the back of Robert's head, and his face then hit the microphone.{{cite web|title= Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer |website= Songfacts |access-date= 10 September 2011 |url= http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1762}}
In a 2013 interview, when asked why she was designated the drummer and not given a close-up shot, Kathy Davies jokingly replied, "I guess the naughty ones always get sent to the back." Davies added that she did not mind it because she thought Palmer "had a good bum."
Palmer recycled the video's models concept for the videos of three other songs of his: "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 fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left." The episode also pointed out several choreographic errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no back beat, such as the second chorus.
The music video ranked at number 3 on VH1's Top 20 Videos of the 1980s and was the last video shown on long running UK music programme The Chart Show.
In the romantic comedy film Love Actually (2003), written and directed by Richard Curtis, the video for Billy Mack's song, "Christmas Is All Around", is a tribute to "Addicted to Love".{{cite news|first= Kate |last= Abbott |title= How We Made Love Actually |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 16 December 2013 |access-date= 21 December 2015 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/16/how-we-made-love-actually}} The "Addicted to Love" models' blank expression is parodied in the "Christmas Is All Around" video, with the latter's models visibly bored to the point of yawning.
The models were also used in the spoof of the video in "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF wearing glasses and moustaches. The music video was parodied in the videos of Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You," Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing," Mr Blobby's "Mr Blobby", Bowling for Soup's "1985," Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", Shakira's "Las de la Intuición", Kasey Chambers's "If I Were You", Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl", Die Prinzen's "Alles nur geklaut", and Luca Carboni's "Luca lo stesso".
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = 7" vinyl single – US (Island Records – 7-99570){{cite book |first= Martin |last= Popoff |author-link= Martin Popoff |year= 2009 |title= Goldmine Price Guide to 45 RPM Records |edition= 7th |publisher= Krause |page= 502 |isbn= 978-0-89689-958-2 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kO8Pj784_4YC&q=%22addicted+to+love%22&pg=PA354 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
| title1 = Addicted to Love
| writer1 = Robert Palmer
| length1 = 3:59
| title2 = Let's Fall in Love Tonight
| writer2 = Alan Thompson
| length2 = 4:02
}}
{{track listing
| headline = CD single – Japan{{cite web|title= ロバート・パーマー: ろばーとぱーまー |publisher= Oricon |access-date= 19 August 2017 |url= http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/188471/products/169994/1/ |language= ja}}
| title1 = Addicted to Love (12" version)
| writer1 = Robert Palmer
| length1 = 5:02
| title2 = Remember to Remember
| writer2 = Robert Palmer
| length2 = 3:33
| title3 = You Are in My System (remix)
| writer3 = {{hlist|David Frank|Mic Murphy}}
| length3 = 6:05
}}
Charts
=Weekly charts=
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!Chart (2003) ! style=max-width:4em | Peak position |
| {{single chart|UK|42|artist=Shake B4 Use Vs Robert Palmer|access-date=29 June 2013|date=20030112|refname="UK2013"}} |
=Year-end charts=
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Certifications
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Robert Palmer|title=Addicted to Love|award=Gold|relyear=2004|certyear=2023|id=309-2254-1|access-date=21 August 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Robert Palmer|title=Addicted to Love|award=Gold|relyear=1986|certyear=1989|access-date=21 August 2023}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|streaming=true}}
Tina Turner version
{{Infobox song
| name = Addicted to Love (Live)
| cover = Tina Turner - Addicted to Love (Live).jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Tina Turner
| album = Tina Live in Europe
| B-side = {{hlist|"Overnight Sensation" (Live)|"Legs" (Live)}}
| released = March 7, 1988{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Tina+Turner&titel=Addicted+To+Love+(Live)&cat=s|title=Tina Turner singles}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 5:10 (single mix)
| label = Capitol
| writer = Robert Palmer
| producer = John Hudson
| prev_title = Nutbush City Limits (Live)
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Tonight (Live)
| next_year = 1988
}}
American singer Tina Turner made "Addicted to Love" a regular feature of her live shows since 1986, although her version did not make it onto the market until two years later.
A live recording from the 1986/1987 Break Every Rule Tour of the track was included on her Tina: Live in Europe album in 1988, and was also issued as the lead single to promote the album in certain territories – instead of "Nutbush City Limits" — and was a Top 20 hit in the Netherlands.
The two singles had the same B-sides: live recordings of "Overnight Sensation" and ZZ Top's "Legs" and near identical picture sleeves. The version of "Addicted to Love" issued on the single was in fact an alternate mix of the track; the single mix was later included on the European editions of her 1991 greatest hits album Simply the Best, as well as All the Best in 2004 and Tina! in 2008. Another live version was included in Tina Live in 2009.
=Official versions=
- Tina Live in Europe album mix – 5:22
- Single Mix – 5:10
- Tina Live – 4:54
=Charts=
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!Chart (1988) ! Peak position |
| {{single chart|Flanders|23|artist=Tina Turner|song=Addicted To Love (Live)|access-date=28 July 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch40|19|year=1988|week=17|access-date=28 July 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|28|artist=Tina Turner|song=Addicted To Love (Live)|access-date=28 July 2013}} |
| {{single chart|UK|71|artist=Tina Turner|date=19880319|access-date=28 July 2013|refname="UK1988"}} |
See also
References
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External links
- {{discogs master|142476}}
The Video Models
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222151123/http://www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=mod&choice=Julia+Bolino&year=all Julia Bolino]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222151127/http://www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=mod&choice=Patty+Kelly&year=all Patty Kelly]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222151133/http://www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=mod&choice=Julie+Pankhurst&year=all Julie Pankhurst]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111205001147/http://www.makgilchrist.com/Site/www.MakGilchrist.com.html Mak Gilchrist]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222151140/http://www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=mod&choice=Kathy+Davies&year=all Kathy Davies]
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