I have a buch of Robert Palmer lps, Andy Fraser is on at least one of them & the Robert Palmer sings Numan one is good too. May just dig them out again.
I think about Addicted to Love was where it go too slick for me,always thought Robert Palmer was more in the Grace Jones mould than anything else, a kind of slick whiteboy soul.
If you think Phil Collins went downhill have pity on the soul & reggae fans, they really did suffer from 80s production fubars.
edit just remembered one of Robert Palmers lps has a classic runout [or run in] of someone going uplimber up loosen up limber uploosen just long enough for you to realise that it's limber up loosen up started on the offbeat