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After the split with Adam and the Ants, Adam Ant went solo, taking his song writing partner Pirroni with him. Merrick also briefly stayed aboard as drummer/producer for the UK edition of the first solo single "Goody Two Shoes" and demos for the upcoming ''Friend or Foe'' album before moving on to other production work, while Miall and Tibbs' contracts were left to expire.〔 ==1982–2001== With the old Ants all gone except Pirroni, and even he unwilling to perform live any more for the time being, Ant recruited a new band for touring, consisting of new dual drummers Bogdan Wiczling (ex-Fingerprintz) and Barry Watts (ex-Q-Tips), plus guitarist Cha Burns (also ex-Fingerprintz), bassist Chris Constantinou and the former Q-Tips brass section of trumpeter Tony Hughes and twin saxophonists Stewart van Blandamer and Steve Farr.〔Sleevenotes for single ''Desperate But Not Serious''〕 Wiczling had already served as session drummer for the Friend or Foe album and had even re-recorded the drum part for Goody Two Shoes to fit the album sound – it was this reworked version of the song that achieved US success. The album sessions had also featured session brass players Jeff Daly and Martin Drover.〔Album credits – ''Friend or Foe'' LP CBS 1982〕 This new band made its debut at London's Astoria Theatre on 1 October 1982 (the day after Tibbs and Miall's contracts ran out)〔News of Adam No.2, p.7, Arlington Press Ltd UK1982〕 and played a further five UK provincial tour dates on 1–6 November 1982 before heading off to the USA for the start of a US tour in New York on 8 November. The New York concert was the first of 26 club-level US tour dates running up to the concert of 16 December 1982 in Hollywood California.〔 These concerts were intended as a warm-up for a more intensive 1983 US tour of over 60 dates, scheduled to run until May 1983. However, on the nineteenth tour date on 20 February 1983 in Cleveland, Ohio, disaster struck when Ant suffered an injured knee onstage (a relapse of a previous injury suffered while filming Jubilee in 1977), forcing the postponement and/or cancellation of dates throughout February and March while he recuperated. Ant eventually returned to action when he appeared as a guest performer on the ''NBC'' television network's ''Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever'' special filmed on 25 March 1983 in Pasadena, California (and aired in May that year), performing ''Where Did Our Love Go'', during which he was joined onstage by Diana Ross. The following evening in Palm Desert, he resumed the US tour, which was finally completed on 18 May 1983 at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas, Texas.〔 During his recuperation from the knee injury, Ant had stayed in New York and Los Angeles and worked with Pirroni on writing new material.〔'Stand And Deliver', Adam Ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, pp.214–215〕 This and a further writing session with Pirroni in Paris in late May/early June formed the basis of Ant's second solo album Strip. The album was recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm in the late summer of 1983 with Phil Collins as both drummer and producer on both the title track and planned single Puss 'N Boots, with Richard James Burgess adopting the same roles for the non-single album tracks. The single "Puss 'N Boots" reached No. 5 on the UK charts, but the BBC banned both the video and the song for the follow-up single "Strip." Despite a vocal cameo performance from former ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad, "Strip" only managed to peak at No. 41 before being withdrawn by CBS while the parent album barely scraped the UK Top 20. However, the Strip single fared quite well in America, only narrowly missing out on a US Top 40 hit single. To promote the album, which reached No. 65 on the ''Billboard'' Top 200 albums, in early 1984 Ant undertook another extensive US tour, some 60 dates in length, starting on 27 January 1984 at the Atlanta Civic Centre in Atlanta in Georgia and lasting until 27 April 1984 at the Irvine Meadow Amphitheatre in Laguna Hills, California. Although UK television performances of Puss N'Boots and Strip had featured a quartet of Ant, Pirroni, Wiczling and Constantinou, the US tour featured the same seven-piece backing band as the previous album's tour, except for Steve King in place of Stewart Van Blandamer on saxophone.〔Strip Tour "Adam Ant Tour '84" Official Programme, Taurus Music (Overseas) Ltd, 1984 pp.3 & 23〕 The tour shows were also notable for featuring a recreation by Ant of the Chinese Water Torture Cell escapology stunt originally performed by Harry Houdini. In preparation for this, in keeping with the album title, Ant undressed onstage down to a pair of boxer shorts.〔'Stand And Deliver', Adam Ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, p.230〕 With promotion on the Strip album complete, Ant reduced his band to the quartet of himself, Pirroni (now out of retirement again), Wiczling and Constantinou. The latter two adopted the stagenames ''Count'' Wiczling and Chris ''De Niro'' respectively and were upgraded from live backing musicians to being full-time band members, featured on record sleeves,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=We Will be Fine – Apollo 9 )〕 logos〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apollo 9 )〕 and even in song lyrics.〔"The Greek, The Gypsy, The Italian and the Pole " (refers to ethnicities of De Niro, Ant, Pirroni and Wiczling respectively) http://www.antlady.nl/lyrics/ScorpioRising.html〕 Ant formally unveiled his new four-piece band, all clad in a leather motorcycle gang image, at the 1984 Montreux Pop Festival,〔'Stand And Deliver', Adam Ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, p.234〕 where they gave a mimed performance of Dog Eat Dog, Goody Two Shoes and the ''Strip'' track Navel To Neck. Shortly thereafter, the new band began work with veteran producer Tony Visconti on Ant's third solo album, ''Vive Le Rock''. Initial sessions in the summer of 1984 yielded the single ''Apollo 9'', a UK No. 13 hit in September 1984; however the remainder of the album was not recorded until January–March 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discography Image )〕 That summer, Ant secured a spot at the Live Aid concert – the first live performance of the "Ant/Marco/Wiczling/De Niro" band – but was asked to cut his set to one song, for which he chose his new single, the ''Vive le Rock'' title track The single, however stalled at No. 50 in the UK, in part due to a pressing error with many copies featuring the A-side track on both sides. A year after the top 15 hit success of Apollo 9, the parent album ''Vive Le Rock'' was released in September 1985, to mixed reviews. As part of the promotion, the band performed a live TV session for Channel 4 music show ''Bliss'' hosted by Muriel Gray. Several songs were recorded, although only two – Miss Thing from the new album and Killer in the Home from ''Kings of the Wild Frontier'' – were actually transmitted. Following a warm up date in Puerto Banús, Spain on 23 August 1985, a seventeen date UK ''Vive Le Rock'' tour was scheduled to start in Southampton on 10 September 1985, however due to insurance problems relating to the stage set (which included a particularly rickety bridge) and/or poor ticket sales, this was reduced to three dates – 25 September 1985 in London, 27 September in Birmingham and 28 September in Manchester. The tour fared better in North America with 34 US and Canadian shows from 11 October 1985 in Santa Cruz, California until 14 December 1985 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Ant decided to pause his career in music at the end of 1985 to focus on his acting career.〔'Stand And Deliver', Adam Ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, p.244〕 The Fort Lauderdale show was Ant's last full-length concert until February 1993. Indeed, between December 1982 and February 1995, Ant's only public live concerts outside North America were the four aforementioned UK/Spanish shows, Live Aid, a 1987 fanclub party performance, and a September 1994 EMI corporate event in Brighton. He severed ties with CBS in late 1986, following the release of the ''Hits'' audio/VHS compilation.〔'Stand And Deliver', Adam Ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, p.248〕 In 1990, Ant re-entered the pop music world with the album ''Manners & Physique'', a collaboration with André Cymone, a solo artist and an early member of Prince's band. The album was another moderate success, and featured the single ''Room at the Top'', which was a Top 20 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. ''Rough Stuff'' became the second single for the United States and Germany as ''Can't Set Rules About Love'' charted in the United Kingdom In 1993, Ant toured in support of a planned album called ''Persuasion''. On account of a regime change at MCA, the record company made the unilateral decision not to release this album on the basis that ''Manners & Physique'' had failed to achieve a gold sales certification. Ant was subsequently released from his contract with MCA and later signed by EMI. ''Persuasion'' remains unreleased to this day and, as a result, it has become something of a lost legend among "Antfans", although it circulates widely as a bootleg.〔Adam Ant ''Persuasion'' LP chapter, ''The Greatest Music Never Sold'', Dan Le Roy, Backbeat Books 2007〕 In 1995 Ant released the album, ''Wonderful''. The title track was a successful single, as was a tour of the U.S. in support of the album. While Ant and his group (which retained longtime guitarist Pirroni) played in smaller venues than they had played in the 1980s, the houses were often packed with enthusiastic fans. The tour was cut short due to Ant and Pirroni both contracting glandular fever.〔Ant, A., ''Stand and Deliver: The Autobiography'', p298〕 Ant also played three shows at Shepherds Bush Empire in London and did a mini tour of Virgin Record Shops playing selected tunes from the album ''Wonderful'' and signing records. Adam and his band also played shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Middlesbrough and Stoke-on-Trent. In 1996 Ant and Pirroni recorded two new songs, ''Lamé'' and ''Inseminator'', for the soundtrack to Ant's latest film ''Drop Dead Rock''. Also around this time, they recorded a cover version of the T.Rex song ''Dandy in the Underworld'' which eventually emerged on the 2005 CD Redux. The duo continued to demo other songs around this time, including such titles as ''Tough Blokes'', ''Justine'', ''Picasso Meets Gary Cooper'' and ''Call Me Sausage'', (the last of which leaked out into bootleg circulation among fans). These new songs with Pirroni were for Ant's own new label Blend Records. Pirroni later referred to these recordings as the ''Blend Demos''. They also guested with such bands as Dweeb and Rachel Stamp. While living in Tennessee with new wife and their child, Ant bought a portastudio, as a first step towards a home studio.〔Stand & Deliver, Adam ant, Hodder & Stoughton 2006, p306〕 Interviewed in 2000, Ant's then manager Bryan Stanton claimed that, since the ''Blend'' session, a second set of songs had been demoed and that Adam intended to compile a new album from the highlights of both sets. Stanton reported of Blend that "''there's loads of legal nonsense behind it. It was set up with two other people, and one of those people is causing a few problems. So what he needs to do is leave that and set up another one''". In 2000 Sony released ''Antbox'', a 3-CD retrospective box set of Ant's career, including various unreleased demos, many of them from the original Ants' live repertoire of the early punk days. In 2001, following the September 11 attacks, Ant recorded a charity single for New York firefighters; a double A-side of Neil Diamond's ''America'' with an X-rated new song of his own entitled ''Big Trouble''. The latter received an aborted radio airplay on an edition of Nicky Campbell's radio show on BBC Radio 5 Live during which Ant was interviewed. In interviews from the time, Ant talked of numerous varied plans, including starting another new record label, reforming Adam and the Ants, and a star-studded benefit concert for a forest in Patagonia. 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's musical career」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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