Music

July, 1978

Double Fun (Island) is Robert Palmer's fourth solo LP, and it continues in the sex-funk groove of the first three. There's even another suggestive cover to give you a little jingle: Palmer in a swimming pool, grinning, with two empty wet bikinis lying on the deck near him. Palmer is an accomplished and distinctive singer. When his first solo LP, Sneaking Sally Through the Alley, came out, it had us jumping up and down and foaming at the mouth: a new major talent, etc., etc. But the follow-up alb...