# Robert Palmer -- Dead or Alive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 1999, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490 "1999-11-04T04:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AmyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AmyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmyG)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/1 "1999-11-04T04:27:00Z")
Is musician Robert Palmer dead or alive? I remember reading a couple of years ago in one of those year-end magazine issues (I think it was Entertainment Weekly) that he had died that year, but I’ve not been able to find any more information about it. Am I just hallucinating, or has he actually gone to that great-big-video-with-pouting-carbon-copy-models in the sky? Thanks, Amy ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/2 "1999-11-04T04:35:00Z")
He’s alive. Saw him on Leno just a few weeks back. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/3 "1999-11-04T06:02:00Z")
There was a rock critic named Robert Palmer, and if I remember correctly (which I may not), he died a couple of years back. So it was probably his obit you saw. * * * Modest? You bet I’m modest! I am the queen of modesty! ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/4 "1999-11-04T07:26:00Z")
Yeah, Writer and record producer Robert Palmer died two years ago this month.(He’d much rather it be the musician) An extraordinary soul. I had the pleasure of working with him. Bob, we still miss ya… ---
**Author:** ![AmyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AmyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmyG)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/5 "1999-11-05T06:05:00Z")
Oh! That makes so much sense now…the article was largely just one of those laundry lists of departed celebrities, and since I’m not very well-informed about the music scene, I never realized there was another Robert Palmer around. Of course, I’m sorry to hear the writer/producer’s died. Thanks for the responses. –Amy ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/6 "1999-11-05T06:15:00Z")
Robert Palmer - alive Robert Palmer’s career - missing, whereabouts unknown Women from his video - Searching for more videos that require no musical talent they can call their own. Puff Daddy is said to be interested. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/7 "1999-11-04T20:39:00Z")
The above post is… Simply indisputable. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-palmer-dead-or-alive/4490/8 "1999-11-04T20:55:00Z")
Well, of all the things it could be called, I will gladly take indisputable.