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}} ''Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter'' is the sixth solo studio album by Adam Ant. The album's title was announced by Ant in the NME in April 2010. As per Adam's announcement at his gig in Chatham in September 2012, the new album was released on 21 January 2013 by Ant's own record label Blueblack Hussar Records.〔 (Company no. 07178030, registered on 4 March 2010)〕 Despite the independent self-release, the album reached number 25 on the UK Albums Chart, only one place lower than its predecessor, released on the major EMI label nearly eighteen years earlier. It had previously been at number 8 in the Midweeks. ==Background and development== In 2009, it was announced that Ant was planning on putting a new record out, with "sources" telling ''The Sun'' that labels were involved in a bidding war over the new material. Adam Ant started working on the album in late 2009. The majority of the double album was recorded with Boz Boorer on a laptop. In addition, former 3 Colours Red guitarist Chris McCormack co-wrote six tracks for the album (four of which appeared on the finished product). Also, originally he was due to have been recording with writing partner Marco Pirroni. However they separated and scrapped all work around March 2010 coinciding with Ant's return to live performance. In place of these, Ant rerecorded five songs from a late 1990s demo session with Pirroni; four of these five made it to the final tracklist. The songs "Sausage" (originally titled "Call Me Sausage"), "Vivienne's Tears", "Hard Men, Tough Blokes" (originally titled "Tough Blokes") and "Punkyoungirl" were originally demos from 1997 which had been reworked for the album. Ant explained that the idea behind the album's title was that the Blueblack Hussar was his classic ''Kings of the Wild Frontier''-era persona, back from the dead, while the phrase 'marrying the gunner's daughter' (an old naval term for a form of corporal punishment in which sailors were tied to a ship's cannon and flogged) was intended by Ant to serve as a metaphor for how he believes artists are treated by the music industry. The album first started to receive attention after NME confirmed Ant was back in the studio in March 2010.〔〔 In an April 2010 interview for the NME, Ant announced he was also working a new album, with the title ''Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter''. This was planned to feature collaborations with McCormack, Pirroni, a member of Oasis (later identified as Andy Bell) and Morrissey's writing partner Boz Boorer. Ant described the album at the time as a "live record that lends itself to performance" which would feature a "kind of concept. It's a very old fashioned, old school, step-by-step album". In addition, Ant rerecorded a song in tribute to the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who died earlier that month, and who also once managed Adam & The Ants. Named ''Who's A Goofy Bunny Then?'', the track was only previously available as a demo recorded in the early 1980s, although material from the song had been recycled in 1983 for "Libertine", a track on Ant's second solo album Strip, released that year. Despite this, Ant said he wanted to release a new version in tribute to the recently deceased punk manager. "Malcolm was a sort of mentor in my life" he explained. "As close as you can get to a surrogate father." The song, Ant explained, took its name from a term of endearment bestowed upon McLaren by Ant – referring to his "quite prominent teeth". The track which Ant and McCormack were reported to have worked on with Beady Eye member Andy Bell was entitled "Cool Zombie". Initially Bell, allegedly at the behest of Liam Gallagher, attempted to block its inclusion on the album.〔Adam Ant interview, The Sun 31 December 2010〕 This led to a quite personalised war of words between Ant and Gallagher; consequently Bell denied he had been put under any pressure. "It was totally my decision not to allow the track to be used," he said "and I'm annoyed at Liam being dragged into this situation which has nothing at all to do with him." Bell also gave further insight into the origins of the song, explaining that he and Ant have "a mutual friend who I had played around on a track with who then passed the music over to Adam without my knowledge. I then explained the track couldn't be used for his album (this was just a rough demo) and thought the matter was closed. Adam then mentioned in the press he had recorded with one of Oasis, but Liam Gallagher had banned the track from being used." Ant eventually rerecorded the song for the final release with two members of his live band, guitarist Tom Edwards and drummer Andy Woodard. Subsequently, the song became the first single from the album. In early 2011, in preparation for a cover feature for issue 2 of ''Vive Le Rock'' magazine, Ant granted journalist John Robb an exclusive listen to the entire work-in-progress for the upcoming album. Robb reported in the feature that the songs written with McCormack were 'tough, hard neo-industrial song that sound like the Physical-era Ants' while those written with Boorer were 'really cool twangy rockers.' "Gun in Your Pocket" was 'a rocking neo-Stooges rush' and other songs were described as 'slower almost ballad-like songs, and a brace of off the wall angular moments that hark back to the groundbreaking Ants of the debut ''Dirk Wears White Sox'' album.'〔 In a 2012 interview, Ant's friend, backing vocalist and songwriting partner Georgina Baillie commented on the song "Gun in Your Pocket", reported to be a collaboration between Ant and herself. She confirmed that the track – which had previously been announced as an album track and single before eventually becoming the B-side to Cool Zombie, and which concerned the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row of which she had been an injured party – was a different song from "Rubber Medusa" (concerning Brand and his later partner Katy Perry) which she and her band the Poussez Posse had been performing live in support slots for Ant's tours. "The first one that Adam and I wrote was about an ex of mine – guess who! Which is not on the (''Poussez Posse'') album, which is called "Gun in Your Pocket". Adam actually wrote that before he met me at the Zodiac Mindwarp gig in April (sic) 2010. That night, he told me 'I have a song about you and your granddad,' and I was 'Oh my God! That's amazing' ... I didn’t see Adam for 4 to 5 months and then I bumped into him around where we both live and we were talking and then the writing started happening ... The first one Adam and I (''subsequently'') wrote together was "Rubber Medusa", which was about Russell. Adam came up with the title which is a quote from the ''Jubilee'' film – the person does look like a rubber Medusa so I see why he said it."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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