documentary series Rock & Roll (aka Dancing in the Street) on which he served as chief consultant. In 1985, he was recruited to play clarinet by friends Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on the song "Silver and Gold" by U2's Bono for the Artists United Against Apartheid album Sun City. Throughout his life, Palmer published scholarly liner notes for albums by dozens of top jazz, blues, rock and roll and world music artists, including Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Yoko Ono, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, Ornette Coleman, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, La Monte Young, and many more. He worked as screenwriter, narrator, and music director of two documentary films The World According to John Coltrane (which he also directed, with Toby Byron) and Deep Blues (based on his book by the same name), He wrote a book about Jerry Lee Lewis, entitled Jerry Lee Lewis Rocks. He was heavily involved in the 1995 WGBH/BBC co-production Rock & Roll, broadcast in the United States in late 1995 on PBS but never released for general sale. Palmer died from liver disease at the Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, on November 20, 1997. His daughter Augusta Palmer directed a documentary called The Hand of Fatima (2009) about Palmer's lifelong relationship with the Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar References Sources Dougan, John. [ "Insect Trust biography."]. Allmusic. Accessed Dec. 9, 2004. Wertheimer, Linda (November 20, 1997). "All Things Considered: Robert Palmer" (audio). NPR. Accessed Dec. 9, 2004. Robert Palmer collection at Tulane University. Includes digitized photographs collection. 1945 births 1997 deaths American music journalists American male saxophonists Record producers from New York (state) American male screenwriters American music critics Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas Blues historians People from Valhalla, New York 20th-century American historians 20th-century American saxophonists 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Screenwriters from Arkansas Screenwriters from New York (state) 20th-century American male musicians Musicians from Little Rock, Arkansas 20th-century American screenwriters Deaths from liver disease Tav Falco's Panther Burns members