- Stand and Deliver (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Stand and Deliver
Artist =Adam & the Ants
from Album = Prince Charming
Released = Spring 1981
Format =vinyl record (7")
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = New Wave
Length = 3:08
Label =CBS Records
Writer =
Producer =
Chart position =
* #1 (UK Singles Chart )
* #38 (Billboard Club Play)
Last single = "Cartrouble" (1981)
This single = "Stand and Deliver" (1981)
Next single = "Prince Charming" (1981)"Stand and Deliver" was
Adam & the Ants ' most successful single. It entered theUK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks. [http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/top/1981.htm] It was featured on their "Prince Charming" album. The lyric "stand and deliver - your money or your life" was a phrase commonly used byhighwaymen ineighteenth 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 byAmanda Donohoe who at the time was Adam's girlfriend.This song is featured in the 2008 racing game,
Burnout Paradise .Geek Rock group Young Knives released the single Up all Night with a cover of Stand And Deliver recorded at an XFM Radio session as the b-side, and have also performed it in various of their live shows.
External links
* [http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/top/1981.htm 1981 Charts]
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