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Prince Charming (album)

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Released
  
14 November 1981

Length
  
37:21

Release date
  
14 November 1981

Producer
  
Chris Hughes

Recorded
  
August 1981

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

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Studio
  
Air Studios, London, England

Genres
  
New wave, New Romanticism, Post-punk

Similar
  
Adam Ant albums, New wave albums

Adam ant scorpios


Prince Charming is the third album by and final credited to Adam and the Ants (future albums would be credited to Adam Ant), 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 "Ant Rap", which went to Number 1 in Australia.

Contents

The album peaked at number 2 in the UK charts and received mixed reviews from critics.

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Content

The hidden track, "The Lost Hawaiians", is an instrumental remake of "Los Rancheros" from their previous album, Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Release

Prince Charming was released in November 1981 by Columbia Records. The album spawned the two UK number 1 singles "Stand and Deliver" (with a different ending from the single version) and "Prince Charming", which reached number 1 in April and September 1981 respectively, and "Ant Rap" which reached number 3 in January 1982 when it was remixed.

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

Reception

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." 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", while Rolling Stone called it "exactly the same album [as Kings of the Wild Frontier], except with a blue cover." Trouser Press called it "a letdown" and that "much of the LP seems forced, ill-tempered and silly."

Title track controversy

The song "Prince Charming" employs strong musical influences in common with Rolf Harris' 1965 song "War Canoe", and in March 2010 Harris claimed 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. "Prince Charming" producer Chris Hughes has stated that Harris withdrew his complaint "with a bit of a giggle" when Adam Ant pointed out that both tracks borrowed heavily from an old Maori recording of a 'War Canoe'-type song.

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni.

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

Personnel

Adam and the Ants
  • Adam Ant – vocals, harmonica
  • Marco Pirroni – guitar
  • Merrick – drums, production
  • Terry Lee Miall – drums
  • Gary Tibbs – bass
  • Technical
  • Ross Cullum – engineering
  • Songs

    1Scorpios2:44
    2Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios3:27
    3Prince Charming3:18

    References

    Prince Charming (album) Wikipedia


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