Simply Irresistible (song)

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"Simply Irresistible"
Simply Irrestible Robert Palmer.jpg
UK 7-inch vinyl variant of the standard artwork
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Heavy Nova
A-side
  • "Simply Irresistible (Extended Version)" (12-inch and CD)
  • "Simply Irresistible (7-inch version)
B-side
  • "Simply Irresistible (Instrumental Version)" (12-inch and CD)
  • "Nova"
Released31 May 1988 [1]
Recorded1987
Studio Lugano, Switzerland
Genre Rock [2]
Length4:14
Label
Songwriter(s) Robert Palmer
Producer(s) Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"Sweet Lies"
(1988)
"Simply Irresistible"
(1988)
"Early in the Morning"
(1988)
Music video
"Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible (Official HD Video)" on YouTube

"Simply Irresistible" is the first single released by English rock singer Robert Palmer from the 1988 studio album Heavy Nova.

Contents

In 1988, the song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, being denied the top spot for two weeks by Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine". [3] It was No. 1 on Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks for three weeks. [4] It also earned Palmer his second Grammy Award the following year, and the song was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. [5]

Cash Box called it a "hard charging power-guitar fueled rocker". [6]

Music video

The music video was directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan and shows Palmer surrounded by numerous women, all with the same heavy makeup and sweptback hair style. The video features women that Palmer met while visiting the Kentucky Derby (Karen Aubrey McElfresh, Kim Jones, Cheryl Day and Betty-Jo Cox).[ citation needed ]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 1
West Germany (Official German Charts) [8] 57
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [9] 6
UK Singles (OCC) [10] 44
US Billboard Hot 100 [11] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)Position
Australia (ARIA) [12] 2
United States (Billboard) [13] [14] 23

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