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Ed Naha
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Ed Naha is an American science fiction and mystery writer and producer. He was born June 10,1950 in the town of Linden and his first known publication was artwork that appeared in the first issue of Modern Monsters magazine, dated June 1966. Naha graduated from Kean University in New Jersey wfith a degree in Secondary English Education and his early career was as a journalist, writing pieces about film and rock music for American publications such as Playboy, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and The New York Post. He worked in publicity and artistic development at Columbia Records, where he was mentored by the producer and he produced the spoken-word album Inside Star Trek in 1976, featuring the series creator Gene Roddenberry with guests William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, and Mark Lenard. That same year, the Bruce Springsteen album Born to Run, Naha worked as a staff writer and editor for the science fiction film magazine Starlog. Under the pseudonym Joe Bonham he edited the first issue of Starlogs sister magazine, Naha has written more than 25 novels in the horror, mystery and science fiction genres, including the Traveler science fiction series under the house pseudonym D. B. Drumm, which Naha shared with John Shirley and his mystery novel Cracking Up was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original by the Mystery Writers of America in 1992. His novelizations include prose adaptations of the films Dead-Bang, Ghostbusters II, Nahas nonfiction works include The Science Fictionary, The Films of Roger Corman, Brilliance on a Budget, The Making of Dune, and the posthumous editions of Lillian Roxons Rock Encyclopedia. Nahas screen work includes two screenplays for Roger Corman, Oddballs and Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, and three scripts for producer Charles Band, Troll, Dolls, and Spellcaster. He served as a writer and producer of the TV shows Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Nahas contractual work for Hollywood is done through his company A Fine Mess, Inc. named in honor of his comedy idols, Laurel and Hardy. A remake of Troll is reportedly in preproduction for 2012 release, as a sideline, Naha maintains a political blog, hosted at The Smirking Chimp, which he says was motivated by his concern over the inauguration of George W. Bush as 43rd President of the United States. Ed Naha at the Internet Movie Database Ed Nahas blog at The Smirking Chimp Nahas account of his years at CBS Ed Naha at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Adam Ant
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Adam Ant is an English singer and musician. He gained popularity as the singer of new wave group Adam. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003. Stuart Goddard was born a child in Marylebone, London to Leslie Goddard. Home was two rooms in De Walden buildings, St Johns Wood and he recalls, There was no luxury, but there was always food on the table. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur and he is of partial Romani descent, his maternal grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was Romanichal. This heritage would become a basis for a theme in his later work and his parents divorced when Goddard was seven years old and his mother supported him by working as a domestic cleaner, briefly working for Paul McCartney. Goddards first school was Robinsfield Infants School, where he created a stir by throwing a brick through the head-teachers office window on two consecutive days. After taking and passing six O levels and three A levels in English, History and Art, Goddard then attended Hornsey College of Art to study graphic design and he later dropped out of Hornsey, short of completing his BA, to focus on a career in music. The first band Goddard joined was Bazooka Joe, in which he played bass guitar, since starting his course at Hornsey, Goddard had married fellow student Carol Mills, with whom he lived at her parents residence in Muswell Hill. I just didnt eat, he has said of this period, I wasnt attempting to slim, eventually, Goddard took an overdose of all the pills he could find in his mother-in-laws kitchen cabinet. After having his stomach pumped, he was sent to Colney Hatch mental hospital in North London, I was totally fucked up in the head. Things went wrong and something snapped, I just became a vegetable for three months. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college, upon his discharge from the hospital, Goddard renamed himself Adam Ant with Mills renaming herself Eve. Adam and the Ants started as part of the punk rock movement. Ant later acted in Derek Jarmans seminal punk film Jubilee in 1977, as Adam and his debut as a recording artist was the song Deutscher Girls, which featured on the films soundtrack, along with Plastic Surgery which was performed in the film itself. Deutscher Girls/Plastic Surgery was re-released as a single in 1982, the band toured extensively around the UK, but proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. Late 1979 saw the release of their début album Dirk Wears White Sox, with Matthew Ashman on guitar, Leigh Gorman on bass, Adam Ant approached Malcolm McLaren and asked him to manage the band
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Gail O'Grady
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Gail Ann OGrady, an American actress and producer, is best known for her roles on television. Her roles include Donna Abandando in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue, OGrady is also well known for her lead roles in a number of television movies. She has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award three times, OGrady was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Jan and Jim OGrady, a financial planner. She was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from Wheaton North High School in 1981 and she appeared in a few commercials before moving to Los Angeles in 1986. OGrady began her career as a model for Montgomery Ward and by making several commercials, in one, she played the neighbor for whom Michael J. Foxs character chased down a Diet Pepsi. In time, she began making guest appearances, often as a villain and she made her big screen debut in the 1988 romantic comedy Shes Having a Baby, and later was cast in a recurring role on the ABC drama China Beach, opposite Dana Delany. She also guest starred on other shows, and appeared in made for television. Her first major role was as Donna Abandando on the ABC police drama NYPD Blue, OGrady played the big-haired squad secretary from 1993 to 1996, and for each year received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Along with cast, she won Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 1995. OGrady left the series in 1996, and made a pilot for her own sitcom, The Gail OGrady Project, but the show was not picked up by any of the networks. From 2002 to 2005, OGrady starred as Helen Pryor, in the NBC television series American Dreams, the series was canceled after three seasons. In fall 2005, OGrady was lead actress in the ABC comedy series Hot Properties, the series was canceled after 13 episodes. In 2006, she guest starred on Two and a Half Men, and in 2007 had a role on Boston Legal as Gloria Weldon. Also in 2007, she starred in the Hallmark Channel movie All I Want for Christmas. OGrady had series regular roles on the short-lived CW series, Hidden Palms as Karen Hardy in 2007, and on Hellcats, playing Wanda Perkins, the mother of the main character from 2010 to 2011. In 2008, she had a role on ABC series Desperate Housewives as Anne Schilling. She also has appearances on Monk, CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, The Mentalist, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, Drop Dead Diva, Hawaii Five-0. She also was cast in recurring role as Conrads first wife on ABC primetime soap opera Revenge
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Adam and the Ants
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Adam and the Ants were an English new wave band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group, which lasted from 1977 to 1982, existed in two incarnations, both fronted by Adam Ant, the second incarnation of Adam and the Ants featured guitarist Marco Pirroni and drummer-producer Chris Hughes and was noted for its use of Burundi drums. It lasted from February 1980 to March 1982 and achieved commercial success in the UK. After witnessing this, Adam quit the band with the intention of forming his own, tentatively called The B-Sides, they practised regularly over the following months but, lacking a drummer, never managed to play a gig. Meanwhile, Adam Ant had befriended some influential figures in the burgeoning London punk scene, most notably Jordan, the Ants eventually formed in early 1977 consisting of Lester Square, Andy Warren and Paul Flannagan. Lester Square left to finish his course at an art school and to later form The Monochrome Set just days after The Ants played their first gig on 5 May 1977, mark Ryan replaced him on guitar and played the first formal gigs. Shortly after this, the group adopted the longer Adam and the Ants bandname, the band made their radio debut on the John Peel show with a session recorded on 23 January 1978, including the song Lou featuring the groups manager Jordan guesting on lead vocals. The following day, Adam and the Ants re-recorded Deutscher Girls for the Jubilee soundtrack album, touring extensively around the UK, often with Siouxsie and the Banshees, they proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. In response, the group formed a strong – at times ideological – rapport with amateur punk fanzines such as Ripped And Torn which gave them more favourable coverage. The band built up a cult following but struggled to find overground success or even a record deal until 1978 when they were signed to Decca. By this time, Adam and the Ants had been through several changes before eventually settling on the stable line-up of Adam Ant, Matthew Ashman, Andy Warren. Many of these and other recordings and demos would eventually surface as bootleg recordings. They also recorded a further two John Peel Sessions in July 1978 and March 1979 and all three sessions were released in 2001 on The Complete Radio 1 Sessions, do It rejected the new songs and Ashman returned to the band shortly thereafter. Late 1979 saw the release of Dirk Wears White Sox, the album was somewhat dark, with post-punk riffs and some vestiges of glam rock, as well as attempts to fuse this sound with funk and soul. Lyrically it addressed subjects such as fetishism, historical figures like Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy and Cleopatra as well as art history, particularly the Futurism movement. It gained a cult following rather than success, leading a frustrated Adam to hire Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the Sex Pistols. During February–April 1980, a new version of Adam and the Ants was formed with Marco Pirroni, Kevin Mooney, Pirroni would become an influential member of the group, co-writing all of their new songs with Adam Ant. The label released the single under the shorter title Cartrouble in March 1980, the following month, the by-then recruited full band recorded the single Kings of the Wild Frontier for prospective record companies
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Dirk Wears White Sox
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Dirk Wears White Sox is the debut studio album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants. It was released on 30 October 1979 by record Do It and it holds the distinction of being the very first number one album on the UK Independent Albums Chart when the chart debuted in Record Week in 1980. The album was made with an early line-up of Adam and the Ants, guitarist Matthew Ashman and drummer David Barbarossa went on to form Bow Wow Wow with then-Ants bassist Leigh Gorman. Original bassist Andy Warren had departed shortly after recording the album to join former Ants guitarist Lester Square in The Monochrome Set. Many of the songs, notably Cleopatra and Never Trust a Man, remained a part of Adam Ants live repertoire throughout his career, the Dirk of the title refers to classic British film icon Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Wears White Sox was released on 30 October 1979, the album was re-released in 1983, featuring a different album cover taken from a December 1979 video for the song Zerox. Catholic Day and Day I Met God were dropped and Cartrouble appears in its single version and this edition also adds three songs from the same era not on the original LP, a re-recording of Kick. Zerox, and Whip in My Valise and it was re-issued again in 1995 by Sony, featuring the original black-and-white album art in somewhat cropped form. Chris Woodstra of AllMusic described the style as a sometimes-awkward fusion of punk, glam and minimalist post-punk with bizarre images and disturbing tales of alienation, sex. Peter Parrish of Stylus wrote Dirk slips somewhere between The Banshees Scream and Gang of Fours Entertainment, all stark, angular and brittle, all tracks written by Adam Ant
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Kings of the Wild Frontier
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Kings of the Wild Frontier is the second album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants. It was released in November 1980 by CBS Records International and this album introduced the Burundi beat sound to popular music. Kings of the Wild Frontier was released on 3 November 1980 by CBS Records in the UK and Epic records internationally. It reached No.1 in the UK Album Chart, and spawned three hit singles, Kings of the Wild Frontier, which was released in July and reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart, Dog Eat Dog, which reached No. 4, and Antmusic, released in December and reaching No,2, as well as No.1 in Australia for five weeks. The album was the UK number 1 selling album in 1981, the US version of the album dropped Making History in favour of two tracks penned by Ant prior to teaming up with Marco Pirroni, Physical and Press Darlings. The album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with several bonus tracks, a multi-disc Super Deluxe Edition was released 20 May 2016. It include a DVD of the long out-of-print Ants in Japan concert video, in his retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it one of the great defining albums of its time. Theres simply nothing else like it, nothing else that has the same bravado, the same swagger and this walked a brilliant line between campiness and art-house chutzpah, and it arrived at precisely the right time – at the forefront of new wave. Trouser Press cites it as the album where Adam Ant found his groove, Kings of the Wild Frontier is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It is also one of twenty CDs in the Great British Albums box set released by Sony Records in 2012, all tracks written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. Cassette version On 20 May 2016, Sony Music/Legacy Recordings issued a four disc super deluxe box set of Kings Of The Wild Frontier. The box included two CDs, a DVD & a 180g gold newly remastered vinyl LP, all tracks mastered by Adam Ant & Walter Coelho. Tracks 1-17 previously unissued on CD, tracks 19 &20 previously unreleased
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Prince Charming (album)
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Prince Charming is the third album by and final credited to Adam and the Ants, released in November 1981. This album features bass player Gary Tibbs in place of Kevin Mooney, the album included the bands two number-one UK hit singles Stand and Deliver and Prince Charming as well as Ant Rap, which went to Number 1 in Australia. The album peaked at number 2 in the UK charts and received mixed reviews from critics, the hidden track, The Lost Hawaiians, is an instrumental remake of Los Rancheros from their previous album, Kings of the Wild Frontier. Prince Charming was released in November 1981 by Columbia Records, the album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with six bonus demo tracks. The surface might be glossily busy but its no substitute for good songs. Trouser Press called it a letdown and that much of the LP seems forced, ill-tempered, all tracks written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. Note, Some releases have Prince Charming as track 1 and Scorpios as track 3
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Friend or Foe (album)
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Friend or Foe is the debut solo album by Adam Ant, released in October 1982 by Columbia Records. The album peaked at number 5 in the UK, Adam Ants highest charting solo album, following the disbandment of the hugely successful Adam and the Ants earlier in 1982, Adam Ant began a solo career, with fellow Ant, guitarist and songwriter Marco Pirroni. Like their previous band, who had achieved in two years,7 top 10 hits, in the UK Singles chart and the album of 1980 Ants debut single Goody Two-Shoes, was a smash hit. The single reached No.1 in the UK and Australia in June 1982, Friend or Foe the single, was released 1 month prior to the album in September 1982 and was another top 10 hit in the UK, making it to No.9. In addition to Goody Two-Shoes & Friend or Foe, the album included another hit single, a remastered version of the album was released in 2005, featuring twelve additional tracks. All tracks written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, except Hello, I Love You, written by The Doors
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Strip (Adam Ant album)
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Strip is the second solo album by Adam Ant, released in 1983. It marked a decline in Ants success, as it reached number 65 in the US. It was poorly received by critics, singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, of ABBA fame, also performs the female spoken part on Strip. The cover photograph was fashioned after actress Jane Russells famous photo from Howard Hughess 1943 film The Outlaw, the lead single from the album was Puss n Boots, which continued the pantomime themes and fashions of Ants earlier work. The single reached number 5 on the UK chart in 1983, becoming Ants final UK top 10 hit, the title track, Strip was released as a single in 1984 and reached number 41 on the UK singles chart and number 42 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The album was re-released in an edition in 2005 with eight bonus tracks. An extensive tour of the U. S. was undertaken after the release, in Adam Ants 2006 autobiography, he mentions that the promoters and tour managers were given the incentive of higher pay if the album hit the Top 40 in the US. Some performances of the tour can be found on YouTube, all songs written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. Tretow – mixing Allan Ballard - photography Strip at Discogs
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Vive Le Rock
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Vive Le Rock is the third solo album by Adam Ant, released in September 1985. Producer Tony Visconti, famous for his 1970s work with Ants heroes Marc Bolan and David Bowie, commented on his work with Adam on Vive Le Rock and he was great to work with. Hes very opinionated and knows what he wants and we didnt quite agree during the mixes, he kind of wanted everything very trebly and Im a bassey kind of producer. The album was a realization of the new rockers in space ethic and look Adam Ant had begun with the hit UK single Apollo 9 in September 1984 and this album at first received only minor attention in the United States, peaking only at number 131. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number 42, one single from the album was released in the US – the title track Vive Le Rock. The 12th track Human Bondage Den was released on the original cassette, most re-releases did not feature this track until Columbia Records re-released the album in 2005. Many say Vive Le Rocks commercial failure was that Adams new concept did not click with the buying public. However, one could possibly attribute the failure of the album to the fact that it was so long in coming, Apollo 9 was a hit a year before Vive Le Rocks release. This may have led to his decision to work heavily on his acting career, however, in the same book, Ant discusses his performance at Live Aid, where the band before him played over their allotted time, so he could only play one song. He chose the current single, Vive Le Rock, while his acrobatic performance left him winded, he states that as Bowie played TVC15, Rebel Rebel and Heroes, I gaped in awe. Here was a lesson in how to be a star, all songs written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. O. E
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Manners & Physique
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Manners & Physique is the fourth solo album from Adam Ant. It was released by March 1990 by MCA Records, the single Room at the Top peaked at number 13 in the UK and number 17 in America. Rough Stuff and Cant Set Rules About Love were released afterwards, Ant is credited with writing or co-writing all the tracks on the album, mostly in partnership with guitarist Marco Pirroni or André Cymone, who is credited with playing Everything Else. Adam himself later claimed that the album was styled after the bass heavy Minneapolis sound of which Cymone, although the album was recorded in 1989, six of the tracks were written in 1986. One of these, the Manners & Physique title track, featured lyrics from a 1986 composition, the album is dedicated to Ann Marie Dollard, Ants Dear Friend, 1956-1988. Dollard was Ants acting agent who was killed in a riding accident and her husband Pat is also listed in the credits. On 20 July 2009, the album was re-released with remastered and bonus tracks. Original Release Room at the Top –4,43 Rough Stuff –4,40 If You Keep On –4,16 Manners & Physique –3,30 Cant Set Rules About Love –4,43 U. S. S. A
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Wonderful (Adam Ant album)
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Wonderful is Adam Ants fifth solo studio album and the eighth LP overall of his career. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200 chart, the band for this album included Ants long-time collaborator Marco Pirroni, along with ex-Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy and Morrisseys guitarist Boz Boorer. This album included more songs than Ants previous albums. This album repositioned Adam as a more mature pop-rocker, with crafted songs that featured acoustic guitars as prominently as electrics, the album was a moderate hit in the US and UK, as was the single Wonderful which became Ants third ever US Top 40 hit single. This was the first Adam Ant album to be released in the US before the UK and its working title was Slapdash Eden and 25 tracks had been written for the project, of which eleven appeared on the final product. The Japanese release came with a mini poster, promotional cards were released, each card related to one of the albums tracks including Ants real meanings behind the lyrics of the track. All songs written by Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni, Boz Boorer except as indicated
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Antics in the Forbidden Zone
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Antics in the Forbidden Zone is a Greatest Hits compilation and accompanying video by the English new wave musician Adam Ant, released 23 October 1990 by Epic Records. The collection does not include Ants Invasion, from which the title Antics in the Forbidden Zone was taken, the video release, published by Sony Music Distribution, collects twelve music videos both from the band and from Ants solo career. Missing are early videos prior to Adam and the Ants signing to Epic and he also remarked of the video release that These groundbreaking videos, while primitive by todays standards, were as important to this bands success as was the music. It includes all of the singles from these releases along with selections from each album. Beat My Guest a song released as the B-side to Stand and Deliver. Though usually stylised as one word, Car Trouble is separated into two words on this collection, all tracks written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, except where noted
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John Peel
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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE, known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as the most important man in music for about a dozen years. In 2012 he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles Sgt, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners favourite records of the year. Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s and he became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners domestic lives. John Peel was born in Heswall Cottage Hospital in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, the solitary Peel was an avid radio listener and record collector from an early age, cutting his teeth on fare offered by the American Forces Network and Radio Luxembourg. He later recalled an early desire to host a programme of his own so that I could play music that I heard. In his posthumously published autobiography, Peel revealed that he had been raped by an older pupil while at Shrewsbury, whilst in Rochdale Monday to Friday, he stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in the area of Milkstone Road and Drake Street and developed long-term associations with Rochdale through the years. In 1960, aged 21, he went to the United States to work for a producer who had business dealings with his father. Once this job finished, he took a number of others, including working as an insurance salesman. While in Dallas, Texas, where the company he worked for was based, he conversed with the presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 election campaign and he later phoned in the story to the Liverpool Echo. While working for the company, Peel wrote programs for punched card entry for an IBM1410 computer. There, he presented the second hour of the Monday night programme Kats Karavan, following this, and as Beatlemania hit the United States, Peel got a job with the Dallas radio station KLIF as the official Beatles correspondent on the strength of his connection to Liverpool. He later worked for KOMA in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, until 1965 when he moved to KMEN in San Bernardino, California, using the name John Ravencroft to present the breakfast show. While in Dallas, in 1965, he married his first wife, Shirley Anne Milburn, then aged 15, the marriage was never happy and although she accompanied Peel back to Britain in 1967, they were soon separated. The divorce became final in 1973, Shirley Anne Milburn later took her own life. Peel returned to England in early 1967 and found work with the pirate radio station Radio London
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B-Side Babies
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B-Side Babies is a compilation album by English new wave musician Adam Ant on Epic Records. Not to be confused with The B-Sides, a 7 single of Friends b/w Kick/Physical released by Do It Records in 1982, most of the tracks on this collection were fairly well known to Antpeople regardless of whether or not they owned any of the singles. Beat my Guest was the first song Adam and the Ants played at their gig at the ICA restaurant in May 1977. Fall-In is an old Ants song from 1977 co-written with Lester Square, red Scab Juanito the Bandito & B-Side Baby also date back to 1977. It Doesnt Matter was performed at a John Peel session on 23 January 1978, Christian Dor, originally called Christian Dior, is also from 1978, as are Why do Girls Love Horses. Physical was covered by Nine Inch Nails, and appears as one of the two songs on their 1992 EP Broken. All tracks written by Adam Ant, except where noted
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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Redux (album)
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Redux a compilation album by Adam Ant. It is a 15-track bonus disc that came with the Adam Ant Remastered box set. It features previously unreleased versions of songs from his previous albums. Rex cover version that was demoed in 1996 - Dandy in the Underworld, prick Up Your Ears Jolly Roger Making History Dont Be Square Mowhok That Voodoo. Five Guns West Ups and Downs Friend or Foe Seven Up Desperate But Not Serious/Manzanera Saigon Scorpio Rising Mohair Lockeroom Pin-Up Boys Dandy in the Underworld
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Young Parisians
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Young Parisians was the debut single from Adam and the Ants, released by Decca Records on 20 October 1978. The A-side Young Parisians was a jazz ballad, while the B-side. In December 1980, following the success of Kings of the Wild Frontier and its singles Dog Eat Dog and Antmusic. It was produced by the bands singer Adam Ant and session pianist Jo Julian, at this point, the other permanent members of the band were Matthew Ashman, Dave Barbarossa and Andy Warren. Saxophonist Greg Mason also appeared on the A-side, Young Parisians -3,02 Lady -2,03 Damaged Goods Records released a 12 single of Young Parisians & Lady in 1989. Both tracks appear on the A-side, while two Dodgy Interviews appear on the B-side, the first interview was conducted with Zerox Fanzine in Chelmsford 4 February 1979. The second was done for Pogo Fanzine in Italy after the performance in Milan 17 October 1978. The A side plays at 45 RPM, and the B side plays at 33 RPM
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Zerox (song)
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Zerox is a song written by Adam Ant from Adam and the Ants debut album Dirk Wears White Sox. Adams ever changing line-up of Ants on this track include Dave Barbarossa on drums, the title is a reference to the Xerox photocopier. Whereas Xerox machines are used to make copies of documents and other visual images. The title also references David Bowies description of himself as a human Xerox Machine, on some early versions of the song, Ant can be heard singing David Bowies a Xerox machine on the coda. In one such version, a demo recorded August 1978 at Deccas Broadhurst Gardens studio, the song was an early favourite among Antpeople, and was performed at a John Peel session on 10 July 1978. Adam and the Ants signed with Camden based independent record label Do It Records after leaving Decca Records, do It had the band in the studio almost immediately after signing, with Zerox being the result. The band had developed a cult following and embarked on a major UK tour prior to the singles release on 6 July 1979. Do It, meanwhile, did a series of UK music press advertisements and it was the bands second single, and the first to be supported by a music video. The song was a one hit on the UK Indie Chart. Following the success of their album, Kings of the Wild Frontier. Despite the fact that Whip In My Valise is credited as the singles B-side,2000 copies of the single pressed in July 1980 instead have the song Physical and this was done at the instruction of Do It chief Ian Tregoning who liked this recording. His enthusiasm was not shared by Ant, who later that year put out the song on the B-Side of his single for CBS Records, Dog Eat Dog, on which Ant can be heard saying. The song Zerox was originally entitled Im A Xerox Machine, and was intended to be the second of two singles for Decca Records, with Kick as the B-Side and these versions were recorded November 1978 at RAK Studios, produced by Snips. Ant planned to include the bands Antmanifesto as an insert with the single, for the eventual release of Zerox, these recordings were discarded in favour of the May 1979 Roundhouse recording. A spoof Decca label for the A-Side, under the title Zerox Machine was printed in issue 3 of Ant fanzine Antics In The 90s in 1993, english electronic group Client cover Zerox on their third studio album, Heartland. Released as the second single, it is their first release since they parted ways with Toast Hawaii. Client calls their version of the song Zerox Machine, UK7 single A. Zerox Machine –4,05 B. Zerox Machine –4,43 UK12 single A. Zerox Machine –7,05 B
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Cartrouble
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Cartrouble, written by Adam Ant, was the second Adam and the Ants single released by Do It Records. Released 7 March 1980, it peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart, though usually stylised as one word, it has also appeared as two separate words. Cartrouble differs from Cartrouble from Adam and the Ants debut album Dirk Wears White Sox, Cartrouble is essentially an edited version of Cartrouble without “. ” and with identical lyrics to “…. It has a heavier, but commercially polished sound, making it far more friendly than the original. Cartrouble features Matthew Ashman on guitar, Dave Barbarossa on drums & Andy Warren on bass guitar, a remix of this version appeared on the 12 inch edition of The Antmusic EP in early 1982. This replaced the original on the 1995 CD release of “Dirk Wears White Sox”, the 2004 reissue of the same album includes all three versions, with the original returning as track 1. Cartrouble was re-recorded with a different line-up of Ants in order to fulfil a contractual obligation, adams ever changing line-up of Ants on the single include his future song writing partner Marco Pirroni on guitar, bass guitar and backing vocals, and Terry 1 &2 on drums. Terry 1 &2 is a pseudonym for Jon Moss who went on to superstardom years later as a member of Culture Club, the song also marks the first time Adam and Marco worked together. The lyrics are different from the version of Kick that appears on the Friends single Do It releases in 1982. The single version was used in place of Cartrouble on the CBS Epic Records version of Dirk Wears White Sox that was released in America in 1983, Kick. was also added, while Day I Met God & Catholic Day were dropped
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Dog Eat Dog (Adam and the Ants song)
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Dog Eat Dog is the opening track on the Adam and the Ants album Kings of the Wild Frontier. It was written by Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni, and features the two drummer Burundi beat for which Adam and the Ants would become famous, released as a 7 single on 3 October 1980, it was their first top ten hit. In his 2007 autobiography, Stand and Deliver, Adam said that Dog Eat Dog was inspired by a Margaret Thatcher quote hed read in a newspaper, the expression refers to a situation of fierce competition in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed. The lyrics of song are about bands in competition with each other. The B-side to the single was Physical and it was a rerecording of an old favourite among Antpeople which, up to this point, had been known as Physical or Youre So Physical. The song was first recorded by Ant as a four track demo in the Chelsea flat of Linda Ashby and was first played live in March 1978. Adam and the Ants performed the song at a John Peel session on 10 July 1978, originally a medium-fast song, the tempo was gradually slowed down until by late 1978 it was a slow song. Although used as a set opener on the Spring 1980 Ants Invasion UK tour and this particular version was recorded during the Kings of the Wild Frontier LP sessions circa August 1980. This version, along two other Dirk out-takes, was reissued in March 1982 as The Antmusic EP. Physical was not included on the UK edition of Kings of the Wild Frontier, however, when the album was released in the US, the track Making History was dropped in favour of Physical & Press Darlings for the American release. Physical was covered by Nine Inch Nails, and appears as one of the two songs on Broken. Dog Eat Dog by Adam and the Ants on YouTube Dog Eat Dog at Discogs
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Antmusic
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Antmusic is a song by Adam and the Ants, released as the third single in the UK in 1980 from the album Kings of the Wild Frontier. The first single from Kings of the Wild Frontier was the title track, the follow-up Dog Eat Dog made number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Antmusic peaked at No.2 in the UK in January 1981, the music video to Antmusic featured the group playing in a discothèque with a giant juke box, and persuading the young audience to turn away from disco music and dance to the new-styled Ant-Music. The music video was directed by Steve Barron, the single spent five weeks at No.1 in Australia, and earned the band platinum certification for sales of over 100,000. Adam and the Ants toured Australia in 1981 and appeared on influential TV pop show Countdown, the song was featured in the 2015 film Ant-Man. Although some overseas singles include the 3,36 album version and this short version has never appeared on CD to date. Robbie Williams recorded a version on the B-side of his single No Regrets in 1998. OK Go released a version of it on the B-side of the single Get Over It. DJ Hyper recorded a cover featuring Leeroy Thornhill for their album We Control, the Quakes recorded a cover version on the album Psyops where it is a ghost track. Hypnolovewheel recorded a cover of the song which was included on the compilation album Freedom of Choice, Antmusic by Adam and the Ants on YouTube Antmusic at Discogs
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Stand and Deliver (Adam and the Ants song)
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Stand and Deliver is a song by English new wave band Adam and the Ants, released as the lead single from their third studio album, Prince Charming. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number one on 9 May 1981 and it has sold 1.03 million copies in the UK. On the US Dance chart, Stand and Deliver peaked at #38, in 2008, it was featured as part of the Burnout Paradise soundtrack. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nations 15th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. Copies of the single Stand and Deliver b/w Beat My Guest were included as a bonus item with some vinyl copies of the US version of the album Kings of the Wild Frontier on Epic Records. Epics cassette edition appended the two tracks to end of either side of the tape. Stand and Deliver was then featured on their follow-up LP, Prince Charming, the phrase stand and deliver - your money or your life, used in the lyrics, is commonly associated with highwaymen in 18th century England. The video features Adam Ant dressed as a highwayman who is captured. The videos opening sequence of Adam Ant putting on his make-up before going out on a robbery became a visual image for Adam Ant in the years that followed. The video also has an appearance by Amanda Donohoe, who at the time was Adams girlfriend. In 2009, American rock band No Doubt recorded a version of Stand. It was eventually included on the deluxe edition bonus disc of the sixth studio album, Push and Shove. In 2003, Adam Ant embarked upon an attempt to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered mountain gorilla in Central Africa by reworking Stand. Co-writer Marco Pirroni and EMI Records blocked its release just days before its release on 17 November. Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants on YouTube Save the Gorilla by Adam Ant on YouTube Dennis Moore by Monty Python on YouTube Stand and Deliver at Discogs
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Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song)
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Prince Charming was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in September 1981 for Adam and the Ants. Written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, and featured on the album of the name, it was Adam and the Ants second number-one single in a row. Band member and producer Merrick, normally on drums, played a riff on an open-tuned acoustic guitar throughout the song. Lead guitarist Pirroni mimed to this part on both a harp and a miniature harp in the promotional video. The music video was notable for its extravagant production compared to the videos being produced at the time and it featured Adam Ant in a male Cinderella role, complete with moustached drag queen evil step-sisters. The sisters accept an invitation to Come to the ball, sitting at a table in an old style kitchen, Adam is surrounded by his band members, who are encouraging him, Dont you ever/Dont you ever/Stop being dandy, showing me youre handsome. His Fairy Godmother, portrayed by Diana Dors, suddenly appears with five shirtless men dancing the Prince Charming, with a wave of her magic wand, she transforms Adams attire into flamboyant Regency clothes. Adam makes an entrance onto the balcony at the ball. He, the Ants, his Fairy Godmother, her male accompaniment and the guests of the ball dance the Prince Charming. The music video was one of Diana Dors last on-screen performances, the images from the video and song lyrics seemed to lend themselves to the rumours about his sexuality that plagued Adam during the early part of his career. The song also coincided with rumours about Prince Edwards sexuality. According to Adam, Prince Charming is based on Beau Brummell, Pirroni described the song as A cleverer song than any of you realise
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Ant Rap
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Ant Rap is a 1981 song performed by the British new wave band Adam and the Ants. Written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, the song was included on the bands 1981 album Prince Charming and it entered the UK Singles Chart in December 1981 at number 9 before rising to a peak position of number three. The setting for the video is Bodiam Castle and features Adam wearing a suit of armour. While in his uniform, he crashes through a door. Adam then does a Bruce Lee impersonation while rescuing the princess before reverting to his shining armor, the video ends with Adam jumping from the top of the castle into the moat. He throws his sword in the only to see an armored hand lift it again from the water. While widely panned by critics, Ant Rap was one of the earliest rap singles to chart in the UK, the B-side to the single was a rerecording of Friends. The bands former label, Do It Records, would release a recording of Friends as a single in 1982. Adams chest pounding bravado lent itself to the rap of the time and he boasts of his success and his ability to dance, and calls out the anarchists of the music scene, affirming he was never concerned with receiving their credibility. In Friends Adam does a considerable amount of name dropping in an attempt to be guestlisted, among the people he claims as a friend include Shirley Bassey, former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, Michael Jackson, Michael Caine, John Wayne, Stevie Wonder, Eric Fromm and Bryan Ferry
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Deutscher Girls
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Deutscher Girls is a song by Adam and the Ants. It was a posthumous UK Top 15 hit single for the bands first incarnation and it was included in the 1978 Derek Jarman film Jubilee, in which Adam Ant appears as The Kid. Deutscher Girls was written by Adam Ant, and was a fan favourite among Antpeople. The following day 24 January, the song was rerecorded from scratch for the soundtrack album, Deutscher Girls and Plastic Surgery, also from the Jubilee soundtrack, were the first Adam and the Ants tracks committed to vinyl. The latter song was recorded July 1977 at Chappels Studios, with a minor overdub added to the break during the 24 January session. Both songs were regular live anthems of the original Ants between May 1977 and January 1980, with Plastic Surgery continuing to be performed by the new Ants on tours in 1980, both songs have been frequently revived for live concert use since 2010. By 1981, Adam and the Ants had achieved massive success following the success of their 1980 album Kings of the Wild Frontier, the album was the UK number 1 selling album in 1981 and won Best British Album at the 1982 Brit Awards. As Antmusic for Sex People was sweeping through Britain, Adams former label, Records decided to cash in his success by releasing Deutscher Girls as a 7 single. Plastic Surgery was released on the B-side, released 12 February 1982, it reached number thirteen on the UK Singles Chart. Chronologically, it followed Ant Rap, and included the long departed line-up of Ants Dave Barbarossa on drums, Johnny Bivouac on guitar and it was the second-to-last single by Adam and the Ants. Later in 1982, another of Adam and the Ants former labels, Do It Records, Deutscher Girls was inspired by the controversial art film Portiere Di Notte by director Liliana Cavani, and starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. The 1974 Italian film featured elements of Nazisploitation, Bogarde plays a former Nazi, in the song, the roles are reversed. Lyrics were changed from the original Jubilee version when it was released as a three years later. Adam Ant told Sounds, Plastic Surgery by Adam and the Ants on YouTube
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The B-Sides (EP)
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Friends b/w Kick/Physical, also known as The B-sides, was the final single from Adam and the Ants. All three songs were written by Adam Ant, and were early fan favorites among Antpeople, Friends and Physical were performed at a John Peel session on 10 July 1978. All three tracks had previously recorded in 1978 for the Ants first label Decca Records. Kick at RAK Studios in Chalbert Street, London, produced by Snips, Friends and Physical at Deccas own studio at Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, produced by Ant himself. All three tracks were recorded during the Dirk Wears White Sox recording session at Sound Development Studios in August 1979, with the contract thus fulfilled, Adam and the Ants and Do It Records parted ways. Soon afterwards, Adam and the Ants signed with CBS Records, released in late 1980, it was the UK number 1 selling album in 1981, and the 48th best seller of 1980. It was named the Best British Album at the 1982 Brit Awards, chronologically, the single followed Deutscher Girls, which was also an old track released by a former label. It reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart, cleaner, more polished versions of all three songs had already been released as B-sides to previous Adam and the Ants singles. Friends was the B-side of Ant Rap, Kick, with different lyrics, was the B-side of Cartrouble. The version of Physical that appears on this single appeared on the B-side of a July 19802000 copy pressing of the Zerox single, in Friends Adam does a considerable amount of name dropping in an attempt to be guestlisted. Among the people he claims as a friend include Shirley Bassey, former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, Michael Jackson, Michael Caine, John Wayne, Stevie Wonder, Eric Fromm and Bryan Ferry
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Goody Two Shoes (song)
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Goody Two Shoes is a song by Adam Ant, released on 7 May 1982. It was his first solo record, after the dissolution of his band Adam, the single spent two weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and it became his third chart topper in the space of a year on the chart. Following the dissolution of Adam and the Ants in early 1982 and his début as a solo artist, Goody Two Shoes was written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni and produced by Ant, Pirroni and Chris Hughes. The song details Ants frustration with press intrusion, which was reinforced by the video, the song was an instant hit, topping the UK Singles Chart in June 1982 and later repeating the feat in Australia, where it topped the Kent Music Report. Despite the success, this was his third and final number one single, in the United States, the song was his first and biggest hit, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. There are two versions of the cover, the first has Adam and the Ants across the top of the sleeve and the later version just Adam Ant. This is probably due to the confusion around the timing of Adam going solo, there are also two different studio versions of the song. The UK7 single version is different from the re-recorded version which appears on Friend or Foe. The single version has a different, more reverberating drum track, the Friend or Foe version, instead of Hughes on drums, features Bogdan Wiczling, drummer on the rest of the album. This version also appeared on the US edition of the single, Adam Ant performed Goody Two Shoes at Top of the Pops on 20 May 1982. It was fairly common for Ant to record new versions his pre-1980 compositions for the B-side of his singles, for this single, an old Ant song from 1977 called Red Scab was used. The song was performed live by the Ants between August 1977 and January 1980 when the original Ants split. In mid 1978, following the recruitment of new guitarist Matthew Ashman it was rearranged from a mid-tempo song to a slow song. The new arrangement was demoed by the band at Decca Studios in August 1978. This particular version was recorded in 1982 by Adam, Marco, the song was revived for live performance in 1993 and has been a regular fixture of live shows since then. All songs written by Adam Ant except as noted. Goody Two Shoes –3,15 Red Scab –4,06 The video presents a vision of a day in the life of Adam Ant, from dressing in the morning to performing on stage. At the end of the day, he takes home a woman journalist played by British actress Caroline Munro, in answering the songs theme question
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Friend or Foe (Adam Ant song)
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Friend or Foe was the title track, and second single from Adam Ants first solo album. It was released 11 September 1982, exactly one month before the album came out, compared to its predecessor, Goody Two Shoes, Friend or Foe was received poorly by Antpeople. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, Friend or Foe was written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. The track features Adam on vocals and bass guitar, Marco on guitar, Geoff Daly on saxophone, Martin Drover on trumpet, an alternate version with Chris Merrick Hughes on drums appears on Antbox. The music video, which received rotation on MTV, was directed by Adam. It was fairly common for Ant to record new versions his pre-1980 compositions for the B-side of his singles, for this single, an old Ant song from 1977 called Juanito the Bandito was used. The song was first recorded as a demo in Muswell Hill in May 1977. It was first performed live in January 1978, with one of the earliest renditions being at the widely bootlegged 12 January 1978 concert at the Marquee Club. The song continued to be performed sporadically until September 1979. This particular version was recorded in 1982, the song was subsequently played solo by Ant at a 1987 fan convention and as a duet with Will Crewdson on a 2010 internet radio session. Friend or Foe by Adam Ant on YouTube
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Desperate But Not Serious (song)
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Desperate But Not Serious was the third single and music video from Adam Ants first solo album, Friend or Foe. and was released on 19 November 1982. It peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart, desperate But Not Serious was written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. The track features Adam on vocals and bass guitar, Marco on guitar, Geoff Daly on saxophone, Martin Drover on trumpet and it was fairly common for Ant to record new versions of his pre-1980 compositions for the B-side of his singles. For this single, an old Ant song from 1978 called Why Do Girls Love Horses. was used, Ant first recorded the song as a four track home demo in July 1978 while living in Notting Hill Gate. The song remained unused until this version was recorded in 1982. The song finally received its debut in December 2010 at a concert at Camdens Electric Ballroom as part of Ants World Tour of London 2010-2011. Desperate But Not Serious by Adam Ant on YouTube
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Room at the Top (song)
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Room at the Top was the lead track from Adam Ants fourth solo album, Manners & Physique. It was released as a single on 5 February 1990, a prior to the albums release. After having spent most of the past five years working on his acting career, Room at the Top peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his second biggest hit in the US behind Goody Two Shoes. It was also a number three hit in America. It reached number thirteen on the UK Singles Chart, Room at the Top was written by Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & Prince protégé André Cymone. Adam only provided vocals for the track, while Marco played guitar & bass guitar, Cymone produced the track, played keyboards & did the programming. Or, as Manners & Physiques liner notes put it, everything else, Room at the Top, was styled after the Minneapolis sound, as was most of the Manners & Physique album. Of which, in Ants words, Cymone was one of the architects, the B-side to the single is called Bruce Lee, an obvious homage to the late martial artist. Both songs appear on both sides of the cassette single, when Manners & Physique was reissued on Cherry Red Records in 2009, Bruce Lee was one of five bonus tracks added. US Remix,7 Edit of 12 & House Vocal versions of Room at the Top were also added, Room at the Top by Adam Ant on YouTube
