Adam And The Ants - Ant Music 1981

Good quality rare video. Info from a fellow Youtuber "paulsupanet" says its from Mulicoloured Music show (swap shop) This was shown on Saturday Mornings. aaahhh! good old days!...Thx Paul. A new version of the Ants was formed with Marco Pirroni (an ex-member - for short time - of Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Models, Rema Rema and Cowboys International) (guitar), Kevin Mooney (bass guitar), and two drummers, Terry Lee Miall and Chris Hughes (ex-The Blitz Brothers, future Tears For Fears producer), called also Merrick. Pirroni would become an influential member of the group, co-writing all of their new songs with Adam Ant. While in the process of assembling the band, Ant and Pirroni re-recorded the Dirk Wears White Sox track "Cartrouble Pt.2" as a contract fulfilling single for Do It, together with future Culture Club drummer Jon Moss and with Hughes producing. The label released the single under the shorter title "Cartrouble" in March 1980 (with Moss credited as "Terry 1+2"), and it reached Number 1 on the UK Independent Singles Chart. The following month, the by-then recruited full band recorded the single "Kings Of The Wild Frontier" for prospective record companies. Without label support, the band carried out a major UK "Ants Invasion" tour, at the end of which, they signed a major label deal with CBS Records and began recording Kings of the Wild Frontier, having first rush-released the title track as a single. That album was a hit in the United Kingdom and put the band at the forefront of the New Romantic movement. The album reached #1 on the UK album charts on 24 January 1981. There were several hit singles from this LP, including "Dog Eat Dog" (reaching No.4 on the UK singles charts in October 1980), "Antmusic" (No.2 in January 1981), and "Kings of the Wild Frontier" (No.2 in March 1981, previously No.48 in August 1980). In addition, "Antmusic" made it to No.1 in Australia for five weeks. Decca and Do It Records both repromoted all of the band's previous output in order to cash in on the success of the album and its satellite singles. "Young Parisians" reached No.9 in December 1980 (giving the old Ants band a posthumous UK Top 10 hit single) while the Dirk album made it to No.17 in the album charts in February 1981. "Zerox" and "Cartrouble" also charted that month, making it to No.33 and No.45 respectively in the UK Singles Chart. Bassist Kevin Mooney left the band in 1981, and was replaced with Gary Tibbs who joined just in time to promote the hit single "Stand & Deliver". Please visit my other Channel. Keep Rockin!.
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[thestarsign]

I would go back to the 80's in a heartbeat! Adam Ant was hotter than hell. Sexy, cute, talented, smart and did I mention hot! This IS music. I HATE most of the crap around today. I'm so GLAD I was part of the Gen X growing up when this stuff was popular. I can't believe this is 30 years old! How did the 80's/90's go by so fast. Please someone invent time travel and take me back.

[basildonbitch]

Oh god he was so sexy...............

[angelictigress04sks]

MY BEST FRIEND AND I WOULD ARGUE.. CAUSE BOTH OF US THOUGHT HE WAS SOO HOT!!!!!! WHO GOT TO HAVE THE CRUSH ON HIM .. LOL NO KIDDING

[jon2564]

Remember when MTV had music videos? MTV introduced me to Adam Ant!

[epiclord12]

i'm 11 but i love this

[kazzasnap]

ge back to the 80,s now please what we got now shit!

[1blueeyes1980]

Adam Ant is super talented rock on!!

[chezzeeX]

@SuperSimonuk Alot of the music today is the same old rubbish. Rappers are no different from eachother.Alot of bands copy those from years gone by,because the music was mostly good ,original and influential that bands today try to immitate them. Quite often bands bring songs out that are perhaps are ok,but usually just are known for one song coz the rest are usually crap. Alspo the women singers tend to get by on being as sexy as possible to get the attention.

[zapkvr]

These guys saved popular music. 

[antonialeigh]

hahaha, look at all the chicks gushing in these comments over Adam Ant and how hot/gorgeous/sexy he was. Oh god....... damn right he was.

[falica77]

Kevin used to be married to Jordan from Sex. It ended when he smothered, by mistake, one of her cats after he had nodded off. Or so I have heard......

[SuperSimonuk]

@thestarsign i remember when adam and the ants used to be on top of the pops and my parents would sit there and say how "music these days is a load of old rubbish" 30 years later, you are here saying how adam ant is great and modern music is rubbish, what do you think the chances are of someone in 30 years time saying how Justin timberlake was "real music" and all modern stuff is rubbish?