Prince Charming (album)

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Prince Charming
Studio album by Adam & the Ants
Released	November 1981
Recorded	Air Studios, London. August 1981.
Genre	Antmusic
Label	Epic Records
Producer	Chris Hughes
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Adam & the Ants chronology
Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980) Prince Charming (1981) Friend or Foe (1982)

Prince Charming is a New Wave album by Adam & the Ants, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). Unlike Kings of the Wild Frontier, Prince Charming showed the Ants moving away from their earlier Burundi drum style of Kings of the Wild Frontier. It is also noticeable that this album is the first without Kevin Mooney, the bassist from Kings of the Wild Frontier. The album spawned three hits; "Stand and Deliver", "Prince Charming" , and "Ant Rap". The album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with several demo tracks.

The song "Prince Charming" has musical similarities to Rolf Harris' 1965 song "War Canoe".

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni except as noted.

1. "Scorpios" – 2:46
2. "Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios" – 3:28
3. "Prince Charming" – 3:18
4. "Five Guns West" – 5:02
5. "That Voodoo!" – 4:18
6. "Stand And Deliver" – 3:35
7. "Mile High Club" – 2:42
   • by Matthew Ashman, David Barbarossa, Leigh Gorman, and Malcolm McLaren
8. "Ant Rap" – 3:26
9. "Mowhok" – 3:28
10. "S.E.X." – 5:00
11. "The Lost Hawaiians" - 1:05 (unlisted track)

Prince Charming was remastered and reissued in 2004 with six demo tracks:

12. "Prince Charming (Demo)" – 3:09
13. "Stand And Deliver (Demo)" – 3:04
14. "Showbiz (Demo)" – 3:07
15. "Picasso Visits The Planet Of The Apes (Demo)" – 3:21
16. "Who's A Goofy Bunny Then? (Demo)" – 4:24
17. "Scorpio Writing (Demo)" – 3:20

[edit] Credits

• Adam Ant – Vocals, Main Performer
• Marco Pirroni
• Merrick
• Terry Lee Miall
• Gary Tibbs
• Ross Cullum – Engineer
• Chris Hughes – Producer