Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 10

Form: Instrumental → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Interlude

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Instrumental

• A – G – D/A – A – G – D – A
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄ – I – bVII – IV – I

Verse 1

• A – G – D/A – A – G – D – A
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄ – I – bVII – IV – I

Chorus 1

• F♯m11 – D – A – F♯m11 – D – D7sus4
  vi11 – IV – I – vi11 – IV – IV7sus4

Verse 2

• A – G – D/A (×2)
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄
• A
  I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 1

• A – G – D/A – A
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄ – I

Solo

• A – G – D/A – A
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄ – I

Verse 3

• A – G – D/A – A
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄ – I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 2

• A – G – D/A (×2)
  I – bVII – IV⁶₄
• A
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• D7sus4 (IV7sus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0271, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.