Trivia

His 1986 hit music video for "Addicted to Love" was memorable for its expressionless, slick-haired, identical-looking models who played as his back up band. A similar look was carried on through his videos for "Simply Irresistible" and "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On". But the original concept was later parodied in several other music videos, including Sam Kinison's "Wild Thing", Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl" where little girls were shown playing the part, 'Weird Al' Yankovic's "UHF" where the women additionally sported mustaches and glasses, and Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" which used male models. The models featured in Palmer's original "Addicted to Love" music video were, Patty Kelly (guitar), Julie Pankhurst (keyboard), Mak Gilchrist (bass guitar), Julia Bolino (guitar), and Kathy Davies (drums).

Palmer won two Grammy Awards - 1986 Best Male Rock Vocalist ("Addicted To Love") & 1988 Best Male Rock Vocalist ("Simply Irresistible") - He also won MTV's Best Male Video Award for 1986 ("Addicted To Love") and was winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine's 1990 Readers Poll for the category "Best Dressed Rock Star".

Name of his daughter: Jane (born December 1979)

Name of his son: Jim (born January 1978)

Singer/songwriter

His first big break into the music business was a stint as lead singer for The Alan Bown Set in the late sixties.

Participated in live street concert performed for "Save the Rose Theatre" campaign, see also Saving the Rose Theatre (1989) : number exceeds 106 acts on an media industry donated stage South bank, London. Considered as an 'irony' of the songwriter due his prior divorce. Also a 'Nexus' link to several film soundtrack inclusions whose main cast members (not beyond 2005), also attended.

He is mentioned in Australian Crawl's song "Beautiful People.".

Bill Siddons was his Manager.