Prince Charming (album)

Prince Charming
Studio album by Adam and the Ants
Released November 1981
Recorded August 1981 at Air Studios, London
Genre New wave
Length

37:21

2004 reissue 61:17
Label CBS
Producer Chris Hughes
Adam and the Ants chronology
Kings of the Wild Frontier
(1980)		 Prince Charming
(1981)
Singles from Prince Charming
  1. "Stand and Deliver"
    Released: April 1981
  2. "Prince Charming"
    Released: September 1981
  3. "Ant Rap"
    Released: December 1981

Prince Charming is the third and final studio album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants, released in November 1981. This album features bass player Gary Tibbs in place of Kevin Mooney, the bassist on Kings of the Wild Frontier. The album included the band's two number-one UK hit singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming"as well as Antmusic, which went to Number 1 in Australia. The album itself peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart.

Release

Prince Charming was released in November 1981 by Columbia Records. The album spawned the two UK number-one singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming", which reached number one in April and September 1981 respectively, and "Ant Rap" which reached number three in January 1982.

The album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with six bonus demo tracks.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]
Smash Hits[3]

Writing in Smash Hits magazine in November 1981, Ian Birch gave the album 5 out of 10 and commented "Gone are the strong melodies that made Kings of the Wild Frontier so addictive; in are elaborate details (the intros are the highpoint here)...The surface might be glossily busy but it's no substitute for good songs."[3] In his retrospective review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "the songs just aren't there", stating that it "simply has style and sound – which, in retrospect, isn't all that bad",[1] while Rolling Stone called it "exactly the same album [as Kings of the Wild Frontier], except with a blue cover."[2]

Title track controversy

The song "Prince Charming" bears strong musical similarities to Rolf Harris' 1965 song "War Canoe", and in March 2010 Harris stated on BBC Radio 5 live's Danny Baker Show that an out-of-court settlement had been reached and a large sum of royalties received after a musicologist had found the two songs to be musically identical.[4]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. 

Side A
No. Title Length
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
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Stand and Deliver"   3:35
2. "Mile High Club"   2:42
3. "Ant Rap"   3:26
4. "Mowhok"   3:28
5. "S.E.X."   3:50
6. "The Lost Hawaiians" (unlisted track) 1:05

Note: Some releases have "Prince Charming" as track 1 and "Scorpios" as track 3.

Personnel

Adam and the Ants
Technical

References

  1. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Prince Charming – Adam and the Ants | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (Revised ed.). Simon and Schuster. p. 5. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Birch, Ian (12 November 1981). "Album Reviews". Smash Hits (EMAP Metro) 3 (23): 25.
  4. ↑ Danny Baker and Rolf Harris discuss Adam Ant's Prince Charming. Interview with Danny Baker. 27 March 2010. The Danny Baker Show. Retrieved 6 April 2015.

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