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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. [2] Written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, and featuring on the album of the same name, it was Adam and the Ants' second number-one single in a row [3] and was the fifth biggest hit of 1981.
"Antmusic" was the first music video directed by Steve Barron. [9] It features the group invading a discothèque with a giant juke box that different members of the band are shown unplugging to go along with the line, "Unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor."
The first CD covers all of the UK Singles Chart hits from Adam Ant's career (with and without the Ants) from 1980–1990, beginning with Young Parisians & the earliest Dirk Wears White Sox singles from Do It Records (which were re-released once the Ants found fame and charted in the UK Top 40), and ending with the charting singles from his then most recent album, Manners & Physique - "Room at ...
He was the lead singer of Adam & the Ants until their split in early 1982, by which time they had recorded three studio albums. Ant, however, would go solo, and release an additional five studio albums throughout the 1980s and early 1990s ( one other album recorded during this period remains unreleased but circulates widely as a bootleg).
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While widely panned by critics, "Ant Rap" was one of the earliest rap singles to chart in the UK, reaching number 3 on the UK singles chart. [3]Paul Lester of The Guardian described "Ant Rap" as one of "the weirdest chart [hits] of all time: "Adam Ant is easily dismissed as pop pantomime, but his paeans to insects weren't just lyrically peculiar, they were examples of populist daring at its ...
He leaves the bathroom, and, at the end of the video, he leaves the club with the dog and a trail of toilet paper coming off his foot. The remainder of the band appear in a few shots. Natasha Thorp provides the voice of the female singer, but Vera Kopp is the actress that appears in the video. Remixes are included by DJ Tomcraft and Scooter.
The song was first recorded by Ant as a four-track home 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 and recorded a full band demo at Decca Studios circa August 1978. Originally a medium-fast song, the tempo was gradually slowed down ...