Throwback Thursday Video Of The Week: Robert Palmer “Addicted To Love”
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It’s hard to pick just one music video to represent an entire decade, but Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” is a good candidate for the 1980’s.
The 1985 video was so immediately iconic that the supermodel formula was used again in the late singer’s videos for “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On” (1985), “Simply Irresistible” (1988), and in animated form for “Change His Ways” (1988).
Pepsi liked the look of those videos so much, they enlisted Robert and company for some TV commercials in 1989. The concept was later flipped around in Shania Twain’s 1997 video for “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.”
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Phil Harris is 50% of "Phil & Mel in the Afternoon" on K104.7. He has been with the station since 2013 and on the air in Charlotte since 2000. Before coming to the Queen City, Phil worked for radio stations in Pittsburgh, Austin, and Seattle. In addition to the weekly "Throwback Threesome" music video feature, Phil writes about things that matter to Charlotte sports fans and pet owners. He happens to be both.
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