I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
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Adam And The Ants released a One sided Blue Flexi Disc that came free with issue 4 of the Flexi Pop magazine in1981.
Entitled A.N.T.S. it took the disco hit Y.M.C.A, by the Village People and changed the lyrics, turning it into yet another ode to Antmusic for Sexpeople. Pretty funny.
Release Information
UK 7" flexi 1981 (Lyntone FLEXIPOP 004)
Young Parisians was the debut single of Adam and the Ants, released on Decca Records, on 20 October 1978. It was produced by the band's singer Adam Ant and session pianist Jo Julian. At this point, the other permanent members of the band were Andy Warren (bass), Dave Barbe (drums) and Matthew Ashman (guitar). Saxophonist Greg Mason also appeared on the A-side.
At the time, the band were combining the punk sound of their earliest days with a more experimental ethos which would characterize their first two albums, the 1979 debut Dirk Wears White Sox and to some extent its 1980 follow-up Kings of the Wild Frontier (by which time only Adam Ant remained from the line-up of the debut single). The A-side Young Parisians was an acoustic/jazz ballad, while the B-side, Lady demonstrated the band's capacity for fast-paced punk rock.
In December 1980, following the initial success of the Kings album and its singles Dog Eat Dog and Antmusic, the single was re-promoted in the UK, reaching number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.
Click the link below to download the following: Single Version Demo Version Lady - B-Side
'Goody Two Shoes' is a popular song by Adam Ant. The song was released on the album Friend or Foe in 1982.
The title phrase is a disparaging term for someone who is overly virtuous or conformist, and ultimately comes from the children's story The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, published in 1765.
Following the dissolution of Adam and the Ants in early 1982, Adam Ant pursued a solo career.
His debut 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 Ant's frustration with press intrusion, which was reinforced by the video and his clean cut image.
The song was an instant hit, reaching number 1 on the UK singles chart for two weeks in June 1982 and later repeating the feat in Australia. Despite the success, this was his third and final number 1 single. The song was his first and biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, peaking at number 12.
The music video presents a stylized vision of a day in the life of Adam Ant, from dressing in the morning to performing on stage, to being hounded by the media. At the end of the day, he takes home a woman journalist played by British actress Caroline Munro.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Extended Remix Version Red Scab - B-Side
Prince Charming is the third and final album by Adam and the Ants, released in 1981.
Unlike 'Kings of the Wild Frontier', Prince Charming showed the Ants moving away from their earlier Burundi drum style. 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'.
Trackisting:
01 - Scorpios 02 - Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios 03 - Prince Charming 04 - Five Guns West 05 - That Voodoo! 06 - Stand And Deliver 07 - Mile High Club 08 - Ant Rap 09 - Mowhok 10 - S.E.X. 11 - The Lost Hawaiians - unlisted track
'Antmusic' was the third single released in the UK in 1980, from the hugely popular Adam and the Ants album 'Kings of the Wild Frontier'.
'Antmusic' fared better in the UK Singles Chart (than it's previous 2 singles) by peaking at number 2 in January 1981, being held off the top by the re-release of John Lennon's 'Imagine' after his murder in New York City in December 1980.
The 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 chart success of the single was even better in Australia, where it spent five weeks at No. 1, 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.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Fall In - B-Side
'Prince Charming' was a UK number one single for four weeks in September 1981 for adam And The Ants. Written by Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant it was their second number one single. It has musical similarities to Rolf Harris's 1965 song "War Canoe". 'Prince Charming' was the second single from the album of the same name.
The video was notable for its extravagant production. It featured a swashbuckling Adam Ant, in flamboyant Regency clothes, performing a much imitated arm-crossing dance. The video also featured Diana Dors in one of her last on-screen performances.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Christian D'Or - B-Side
'Stand and Deliver' was Adam and the Ants' most successful single. It entered the UK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks. It was featured on their Prince Charming album. The lyric "stand and deliver - your money or your life" was a phrase commonly used by highwaymen in eighteenth century England during robberies.
The song's video features Adam Ant dressed as a "dandy highwayman" who is captured and escapes being hanged from the gallows with help from his accomplices (his band members). The video's opening sequence of Adam Ant putting on his make-up before going out on a robbery became a defining visual image for Adam Ant in the years that followed. The video also has an early appearance by Amanda Donohoe who at the time was Adam's girlfriend.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Beat My Guest - B-Side
Young Parisians was the debut single of Adam and the Ants, released on Decca Records, on 20 October 1978. It was produced by the band's singer Adam Ant and session pianist Jo Julian. At this point, the other permanent members of the band were Andy Warren (bass), Dave Barbe (drums) and Matthew Ashman (guitar). Saxophonist Greg Mason also appeared on the A-side.
'Goody Two Shoes' is a popular song by Adam Ant. The song was released on the album Friend or Foe in 1982.
Prince Charming is the third and final album by Adam and the Ants, released in 1981.
'Antmusic' was the third single released in the UK in 1980, from the hugely popular Adam and the Ants album 'Kings of the Wild Frontier'.
'Prince Charming' was a UK number one single for four weeks in September 1981 for adam And The Ants. Written by Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant it was their second number one single. It has musical similarities to Rolf Harris's 1965 song "War Canoe". 'Prince Charming' was the second single from the album of the same name.
'Stand and Deliver' was Adam and the Ants' most successful single. It entered the UK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks. It was featured on their Prince Charming album. The lyric "stand and deliver - your money or your life" was a phrase commonly used by highwaymen in eighteenth century England during robberies.
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