It’s 40 years this year since Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love, the song which briefly turned him into a superstar in the US. It is, in many ways, the epitome of mid 80s pop/rock, from its crunching production to the blaring guitars and, of course, that video. But even now, few know that the song was originally supposed to be a duet, with Chaka Khan.
It remains unclear to this day why the decision was made to wipe Khan’s vocals. The track, like the rest of Palmer’s Riptide album, was recorded at the Compass Point studios in Nassau, where Palmer was living at the time.
