“Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer was released in 1986, quickly reaching the top of both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. It was also certified gold, selling half a million copies in the US.
Although the song was a huge hit, it was originally intended to sound much different. It was supposed to be a duet with Chaka Khan. However, her record company would not allow her to work with his label, Island Records. When speaking about how the duet almost came to be, Palmer told the LA Times, “I bumped into her at a club. We hit it off immediately. I spent the evening with her. I was impressed. She’s the one singer I’ve always wanted to sing with.”
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He continued, “I told her I was recording and she wanted to come to the studio. She showed up and we sang this song together that I was working on. The record sounded great.” However, he explained why that version of the song was never released. “Politics intervened. Her people said it was a conflict of interest. She’d have three singles out at the same time.”
Palmer was forced to erase her from the song. However, he believed she still deserved credit for the work she put into it, which is why she is credited for the vocal arrangements in the album notes.
The music video for “Addicted to Love,” which uses a shorter version of the original song, was one of the most popular videos from the '80s. It captured Palmer performing with a group of female models.
When speaking with one model, Mak Gilchrist, about her role in the video, she said, “I was 21 and got the part on the strength of my modeling book. We were meant to look and ‘act’ like showroom mannequins.” She continued, "I remember feeling an acute sense of embarrassment when I first saw how sexy the video was."
Over the course of his career, Palmer created other hit songs like “Bad Case of Loving You” and “Simply Irresistible.” He died of a heart attack in 2003 at the age of 54 in Paris.
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