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A [3:08]
Stand And Deliver (single version)
Ant Lady's lyrics
B [3:11] Beat My Guest (single version)
Ant
Lady's lyrics
Stand And Deliver words & music: Adam Ant/Marco Pirroni
Bass:
Adam Ant
(NOT Gary Tibbs)
Guitar:
Marco Pirroni
Drums: Merrick and Terry Lee Miall
Vocals: Adam Ant Beat My Guest words & music:
Adam Ant
Bass:
Kevin Mooney (NOT Gary Tibbs)
Guitar:
Marco Pirroni
Drums: Merrick and Terry Lee Miall
Vocals: Adam Ant Produced by:
Chris Hughes
Engineer: Alan Douglas
Make Up: Jayne Vincent
Styled by: Charles David Whiteing at Bermans And Nathans
Clothes by: Eve
Photographs by: Allan Ballard
Design by: Jules and Adam Ant
Astrological symbols courtesy of: HMSO Copyright (!)
UK Chart History: (15 weeks)
09 May 1981 - 1
16 May 1981 - 1
23 May 1981 - 1
30 May 1981 - 1
06 Jun 1981 - 1
13 Jun 1981 - 5
20 Jun 1981 - 7
27 Jun 1981 - 13
04 Jul 1981 - 26
11 Jul 1981 - 28
18 Jul 1981 - 40
25 Jul 1981 - 46
01 Aug 1981 - 58
08 Aug 1981 - 61
15 Aug 1981 - 69
Notes:
The brand new single featuring (according to the
sleeve) a brand new line up. Kevin Mooney on bass out...Gary Tibbs in. Even though the ex-Roxy Music bassist
had never even
played on either of these two songs. Kevin played the bass on Beat My
Guest before he left, and Adam stepped back into his old shoes (after
he sacked Kevin) on Stand And Deliver. I guess Mr. Tibbs can't be
too ungrateful as he'd already played on Roxy Music's #1, Jealous Guy,
earlier in the year. Initially released in a limited edition poster sleeve
and appeared as a 12" maxi-single in the States the Netherlands, although it wasn't
extended. A rare US cassette of the
Kings Of The
Wild Frontier album also contained these two tracks, and some US vinyl
copies also came with a free copy of the single.
NME review - 2nd May 1981
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Who is that dashing young chap riding the fiery
charger into the night? Who is he that sits tall in the saddle capturing
all the ladies' jewellery and hearts? Musket in hand and gleam in his
eye- why, it's none other than Tommy Steele in Columbia's 1968 clinker
Where's Jack?
But soft, who comes in the slipstream? Up aloft a
pantomime nag with training wheels, here comers the man of the hour! A
video crew at his heels, a tri-cornered hat on his head, and the words
"meeting Margaret was the biggest thrill of my life" playing about his
lips. Adam Ant! With his trusted band of wandering minstrels bringing up
the rear! What a life! (No ordinary sound effects, for Adam employs two
chaps to bang together the empty halves of coconut).
'Stand and Deliver' is from no LP. 'Stand and
Deliver' goes straight in at number one! 'Stand and Deliver' stretches
the joke a touch thinner. And as he gallops by, splashing mud in the
critic's face, we shout off into the night after this unstoppable
rapscallion, "Take heed, Adam Ant! We'll see you dance at the end of a
yardarm yet!" The rogue rends the night with his cackle...
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