I remember when this song was released, Adam & The Ants played on the West Side of New York City next to the Intrepid Ship. The band came down the Hudson River on a pirate ship hanging from the ropes and blowing off cannons. The Pirate ship docked next to a stage next to the Intrepid, and the band then ran on to the stage, grabbed their instruments and started playing "STAND AND DELIVER". It was the most Amazing stage entrance I've ever seen by any band ever!
Back at primary school in the early 80's, they had a big poster in the canteen which had Adam Ant on it under the words "Adam Ant Says Don't Smoke!". So I never did. Thanks Adam!
Ah mate having something like this to remember your mate years later is the definition of the only good thing we are capable of as humans . If that makes sense . Top man
"Charismatic"...😂 Why? How? Cause he wear's in the eightys lippgloss??? The story of the videos is completly senseless ....typical for this time and i love the eightys.
He had such fabulous bone structure. I still remember being at primary school here in the UK and doing Prince Charming up and down the hall on lunch times :D
agree. Gorgeous guy quite unusually androgenous. Suits make up. Me not so much. My eyes look a bit too starey and intense with it. Interestingly my younger sister doesn't seem to suit black eyeliner either.. It's too dramatic - with her eyes she ends up looking like big doe-eyed Princess Diana whereas I just look like a bloody vampire lol I've been meaning to revisit Prince Charming all day. Now I'm finally going to do it, so I know what you're talking about - because I've got one or two images in my head now ranging from foxtrot ONE TWO ONE TWO with crossed forearms all the way to goose stepping up and down the hall, like Siouxsie Sioux
Saw him in 1982 at 14 years old-I was such a starstruck nerd in my black “Members Only” jacket which was plastered in several dozen Adam Ant pins. Great entertainer he was-I was so disappointed not to have caught the sweaty leg-warmer (remember those 80’s kids?) that he generously flung into the crowd. I remember racing to the phone to call my best friend and fellow Ant-Fan every time one of his videos popped up on the MTV. Ah the good old days!
Hey 1982 fan! I may have been at that show too at 14 yo! He went into a water tank like magicians used and threw the wet legwarmer into the crowd. Yuck! I think INXS opened ! Excellent show.
That’s a yes from me too. I saw him live as a 16 yr old girl. I wrapped a black ribbon around my hand and wrist and swore I’d never take it off. 😂. It drove my teachers mad. 😊 it’s such a shame he’s bald nowadays, oh well I’m fat so I can’t talk.😂😂😊
I was turned onto Adam and the Ants by my older sister, and what we both loved was not just their sound, but their self-effacing and eccentric senses of humor, which absolutely made the music AND the videos. Great stuff.
Ditto. Hearing and seeing this song in the summer of 1981 literally changed my life. I turned down a path of individuality and creativity and music and I never looked back.
Adam had an incredible run from end of 1980 to early 1982. Kings of Wild Frontier, Stand & Deliver, Prince Charming, Ant Rap, Goody Two Shoes. He was on a manic high working 18 hours a day cranking out hit after hit. Great videos.
I loved Adam and the Ants back in day, Kings of the Wild Frontier is a classic album. Thanks for the great memories. These songs are timeless classics. And now my daughter is into this music so it's great as I get to listen to it all over again. I wonder if any of these old videos will get the upscaled HD treatment? That would be great.
He still puts on an amazing show. He recently had some health issues, but will be touring or is back out there. (and I am barely behind you in age, still have all of my Adam Ant pins from back in the day!)
I'm glad I'm not the only 56 year old that still listens to Adam and the Ants! This was such a fun MTV video in the early 1980s. I still remember watching this video on MTV as late as 1988 and feeling sad because I knew music was about to change in the 1990s but I never expected all of the grunge bands to emerge.
i was in a pottery class in 1981 I got given detention for drawing a clay line across my nose and standing on my desk and shouting stand and deliver. my mum got called into school to see the teacher. haha
Ah, 80s music and school detentions, I got one for inciting half the class to bang on the table and stomp the floor like in JoBoxers Boxerbeat [Bam! Bam!]
I'm 74 & miss when MTV still played videos, not the crap todsy! my dj husband played this song in 80's new wave alternative club back then! music was so damn great then! 😊
This is legitimately one of the best songs ever made. Most people could be proud for having written this alone, but he has an entire library of brilliant music on top of it.
"Da deedly qua qua!" I never would have had the nerve to write such a lyric, which is why no one will remember my name. Stand and deliver indeed. Salud!
How could anyone truly understand and appreciate 'Ant-Music' unless they lived through that incredibly special era in time?? I can say that I've personally done my part in educating the 'kids', because in my family I've taught them WELL, and as a result, they're all totalled OBSSESSED with all things '80s'...which is adorable!!
I'm 44 and how am I only discovering this gorgeous man and his music?! He needs a movie made about him. Not the documentary, I've seen that and its amazing in its own right but there needs to be a blockbuster movie about this genius.
I'm 42. I was alive in the 80s and never really knew anything other than goody two shoes, which I didn't like. I just re-listened in my late 30s and thought it was great. I'm exploring the rest of his stuff now, in my 40s, and he's so great. Sorry it took me so long. Missed out
He was, and perhaps is, insanely charismatic. I saw this video on MTV in 1982, and it was the first time I had ever seen or heard of him. I was an instant fan.
This is punk music. Glorious glorious punk music from the punk era. I know you were not there in the punk era, I was and this is definitely punk era music. That short era was so influential on rock and roll and heavy metal going forward. Matthew
The most handsome daring and imaginative singer in the 1980s. A record Adam Ant can be very proud of. Fame is so fickle people wanting to see the next best thing and Adam is one of all them but whoa what an impact he made.
He was definitely one of the first creators/adopters of the "New Romantic" look - it got a lot more polished and less "historical" after, but he rocked it hardcore
@@BWater-yq3jx lol. That's like Poison trying to say they weren't a hair band when they were the ground zero of hair bands. Same with Adam Ant getting all mad about it when he created the sh*t. May as well own it
Me and a mate saw Adam and the Ants playing Sydney in 1982 when we were both 14.I think we were almost the only males in the crowd and we kept getting our bums pinched, it was awesome.
@@inessalamanca6249 it was amazing!!! would definitely go again if the chance arises. me and my friends managed to push to the front and there were some people around us who were absolutely shit-faced, but i guess its all part of the experience. very fun 10/10 lol
I absolutely loved Adam and the Ants when I was a kid... I still do!! I was a crazy, mad little BMX punk fan kid... When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I went to the infant's school fancy dress party, dressed as Adam Ant (thanks to my big sister) and I actually won the fancy dress!! 😄
That sounds like an EPIC night!! I was 9, and I remember going round my freinds and we'd put it on his parent's super loud HIFI and we'd be bouncing around jumping up and down on the sofas like the lunatic little sh*ts we were. The song somehow super-aroused our excitement. Liberating! And of course his looks and the costumes, such wonderful campy dressing up. I'm 53 now and still think he looks wonderful in this video. If I could fit...I'd wear!! (I'm 6 foot 2 with 36 inch waist and size 14 boots...I don't think I'm fitting into Adamant's wardrobe anytime soon haha
Lol! 😂 it's funny, peculiar, aging, how people can relate to a point in time. I was a big fan of Adam & the ants too. Now grey, big feet & yep, 36 waist, lol! @uberbeast113
shh don't tell anyone but I remember when this first came out in 1981! wow was it really THAT long ago,those days when your boyfriend wore more eyeliner than you (and mine looked great!) and I still to this day love it and can dance round the living room to it.. ❤
How can anyone not love this? Never fails to make me smile, feel energetic and nostalgic at the same time, and wish I could still jump out of trees like Adam.
Omg I am 51 years old now and this was my favorite band growing up!!!! When I listen to it I can literally feel the energy of my youth!!!! I am in tears with emotion!!!!
Phawk. I'm.52..first.show.adam.ant..san francisco.civic auditorium. Now. A Dead Jerry Head Rasta Floyd Allman's Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran 🏜️ Jah sisters Jah Trey Jah Duane Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I Jah
First record I ever bought. I was 9 (NINE!!) years old. Went into the record shop in Muswell Hill and asked the intimidatingly cool 80s punk girl behind the counter for Adam Ant! Handed my pennies over. I had a homemade record player in my bedroom and I swear I played that 7 inch record so many times it must have disintegrated at some point. I loved him so much! That and Tubby the Tuba got played to death. 😆😂 I moved on to tape and mini disc fairly quickly, but this will always be the first record in my now extensive 80s and 90s vinyl collection. ❤
@dave setchell used to love that song when I was 8 or 9! In school in Friday assemblies we were allowed to listen to a song on the record player. The choice was mull of kintyre or floral dance. Loved them both.
Adam Ant is the most extraordinary looking man. There's not much I wouldn't have done to have him stand and deliver. Rather talented too. What I loved about the 80d was the way music, fashion, art all merged. Vivien e Westward so influential at this time on the London scene.
It's interesting, I'm a Renaissance Actor, and in my Renaissance Guild we had a couple that looked exactly like the Noble Couple in this video and this happens to be their favorite Adam Ant video as well ... "Stand And Deliver"! ...🤘😎🎶🎵🎸
This is music at it's finest! True genius in every possible way. Very fortunate to have been brought up with music of this calibre. I'm an 80's child and my mum had this on vinyl - I lived off music like this! They just don't write music for it's very purpose of being something to listen to and think about any more. That thing we call art has gone. But this art will always stand the test of time.
35 years old this month this video was released. It was the dawn of the music video and MTV. My sister had posters of this chap all over her bedroom walls. Along with Micky Rourke from 9½ Weeks. (Before he ruined himself) Fun fact, Adam, real name, Stuart Goddard, only briefly enjoyed the fruits of his new wave career before being crippled by manic depression and bi-polar disorder.
I will say that this and few of his other songs got a lot of heavy play on early MTV back in the mid-80's as MTV needed just about any video they could find in those early days and many were British New Wave as groups in England seemed to embrace MV's a bit early than American acts did, so you saw a lot of British New Wave in those early days.
When I was younger I loved the way he dressed and the way he danced. I was so into the men wearing make up and frilly shirts. The new romantics era was beautiful.
I'm still listening to Adam and the ants,grew up with the new romantics etc, the 80s will still be listened to in 20yrs time,best decade for music in the world EVER, and my life,big up the 80s
Man on man this song hit me like a flipp'n ton of bricks along with Antmusic. I was in Jr High and hated so much of the top 40 crap that permeated the industry. Adam Ant was so far ahead of his time. The sound of the two drummers was incredible. No one was like him and there will never be anyone close.
💖💖💖 Still a *TOP NOTCH* video & song...even after all these years! His live shows are still *ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC!!!* Adam is *ALL IN* while performing & you just can't ask for more than that! He still is my life long favorite & I wish him only *TRUE HAPPINESS & WELLBEING!!!* 💖💖💖
His closeups are contagiously fun! I love when he glances in the mirror, then tosses the gun aside with that fake worried smile! Lol 00:45. This whole video really seems like he's having such a blast. Boy, I really miss the 80s, when stuff like this was our mainstream music. Such creativity. Such variety. Boy, we didn't know how good we had it then.
I just watched the video and thought he was humorously making Blondie-like facial expressions at the camera like she did in her videos apparently to be humorously sexy and I thought that was really funny. This was done in 1981 and Blondie was wildly popular in Britain from the mid 70s to a little bit after this video came out, so I think that must have been what he was doing. I was looking through the comments to see if anyone else thought that too.
There's still good music if you take the time to look for it. Literally, just download indie music on your phone or something. The music on there is new and amazing.
I miss my MTV. I haven't heard this in decades, but once I streamed this I was right back into that time period. A great song I forgot I loved. OG shit mate.
Rather fitting, especially because highwaymen were contemporaries with pirates. Charming to think that while Captain Jack was out on the sea swashbuckling The Dandy highwayman was in some woodland shouting “ Stand and deliver!”
This may be my favorite but Adam and the Ants had many great songs. They were huge when i was in junior high but seems like people have kind of forgotten about them when it comes to 1980’s bands. Other than being talented and having great songs one of the things I like best about them is that they are probably one of the most unique and original bands ever. No one else from the past or present looks or sounds like Adam and the Ants. A true original.
I graduated from a hick school early when I was sixteen. I left for Alaska, married and had two kids by 1984. I was in UAA at night and working on a huge business plan with friends and their contacts. There were actual disco clubs in Anchorage then and heard Stand and Deliver the first time. I wish my kids could have comprehended how these videos changed everything!! No computer renderings...actual videos of acting! Fyi...divorced in 1987...lol.
I remember when this song was released, Adam & The Ants played on the West Side of New York City next to the Intrepid Ship. The band came down the Hudson River on a pirate ship hanging from the ropes and blowing off cannons. The Pirate ship docked next to a stage next to the Intrepid, and the band then ran on to the stage, grabbed their instruments and started playing "STAND AND DELIVER". It was the most Amazing stage entrance I've ever seen by any band ever!
Sounds fantastic. Is there any video of this?
Wow!! Amazing experience 🔥🔥🔥 lucky you!!
WOW!
No way,that’s too sick
Damn would have loved to have seen that love Adam
How lucky were we?
The best decade ever. Take me back!
Happy 70th birthday, Mr G.
I would say "They don't make them like this anymore" but they really didn't make them like this back then. Such a unique sound.
don't tread on an ant
Yea well he wasn't the most famous but he is unique and weirdly good he like playing dressuo a little to much but to each his own
in a time of skinhead/ mod/ newromantic/punk ?
Osnt
Illiant
Back at primary school in the early 80's, they had a big poster in the canteen which had Adam Ant on it under the words "Adam Ant Says Don't Smoke!". So I never did. Thanks Adam!
don't drink, don't smoke - what do you do?
@@somebodyelse714Eat brownies?
1984
yea never drank, never smoked, never took drugs, probably has 14 children
That’s Fantastic! 😂
My mate was the biggest fan of the Ants back in the 80s. He died of a muscle disease at age 18. This was his fav song. RIP Frederik!
So sorry but I hope that this song brings back happy memories of him for you.
Ah mate having something like this to remember your mate years later is the definition of the only good thing we are capable of as humans . If that makes sense . Top man
Would have been put down as a Covid death today after testing positive in hospital.
@@CelticSaint Topical and redpilled but damn man have some respect for the dead.
That's really sad to hear but one thing's for certain, the man had brilliant taste in music.
One of the most flamboyant, charismatic pop stars of all-time. Great songs, brilliant videos, amazing look...love him to bits.
He was 27 in this video
"Charismatic"...😂
Why? How?
Cause he wear's in the eightys lippgloss??? The story of the videos is completly senseless ....typical for this time and i love the eightys.
He’s one of a kind and a special person… I prefers listening to his songs all day and night, much respect ❤. Which is your favorite song of his?
His body of work is so inspiring to me ...
@@johnortega8078 All of them! Did I say he was wonderful ?
He had such fabulous bone structure. I still remember being at primary school here in the UK and doing Prince Charming up and down the hall on lunch times :D
And the white face paint lol
agree. Gorgeous guy quite unusually androgenous. Suits make up. Me not so much. My eyes look a bit too starey and intense with it. Interestingly my younger sister doesn't seem to suit black eyeliner either.. It's too dramatic - with her eyes she ends up looking like big doe-eyed Princess Diana whereas I just look like a bloody vampire lol
I've been meaning to revisit Prince Charming all day. Now I'm finally going to do it, so I know what you're talking about - because I've got one or two images in my head now ranging from foxtrot ONE TWO ONE TWO with crossed forearms all the way to goose stepping up and down the hall, like Siouxsie Sioux
He is still a good looking guy
@@Edward-turtle not now he's not
Saw him in 1982 at 14 years old-I was such a starstruck nerd in my black “Members Only” jacket which was plastered in several dozen Adam Ant pins. Great entertainer he was-I was so disappointed not to have caught the sweaty leg-warmer (remember those 80’s kids?) that he generously flung into the crowd. I remember racing to the phone to call my best friend and fellow Ant-Fan every time one of his videos popped up on the MTV. Ah the good old days!
Okay Boomer!
Not a “boomer” but thanks for the reply!
Gen X!! Great music and great messages about not being afraid to stand out and about accepting each other.
@@Anna_Key 👍
Hey 1982 fan! I may have been at that show too at 14 yo! He went into a water tank like magicians used and threw the wet legwarmer into the crowd. Yuck!
I think INXS opened ! Excellent show.
This video just screams "early 80s new wave!!" like crazy...the camera angles, head movements, make-up...lol
Absolutely fantastic
It screams New Romantic as well.
Fab
@@rommix0 What does "New Romantic" mean?
@@JPVanderbuilt it's what the uk + Commonwealth countries called this music movement: visage, ultravox, etc
Ummmm, NO. This video is more likely ground zero that created 80's New Wave
I was so obsessed with Adam Ant in the 80s. I still get giddy watching him in 2019. What a gorgeous man
I concur completely.
rocker 76\m/ ooo yes and those hip swivels , such a good dancer plus witty, what’s not to love.
That’s a yes from me too. I saw him live as a 16 yr old girl. I wrapped a black ribbon around my hand and wrist and swore I’d never take it off. 😂. It drove my teachers mad. 😊 it’s such a shame he’s bald nowadays, oh well I’m fat so I can’t talk.😂😂😊
@@fionamorris9634 Search Adam Ant 2020, also Washington DC Sept. And 2019 tour.. He's back!
Fiona Morris I did the ribbon thing too!!! I forgot about that!!!
One of the MOST UNDERRATED ARTISTS OF ALL TIME!!!he BROUGHT his own sound and look at the time!!COOLSHIT!!!!MY VOTE FOR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!
Indeed!
For sure!👍
He wasnt underated, these guys were massive in the UK when I was growing up!
Hear hear
Are you kidding? They only admit rappers into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame now
I was turned onto Adam and the Ants by my older sister, and what we both loved was not just their sound, but their self-effacing and eccentric senses of humor, which absolutely made the music AND the videos.
Great stuff.
I turned 54 today. I still cant believe its been 40 years since I fell in love with this video and the music for the first time.
54 in a few days. Agree.
65 and still loving it!
Ditto. Hearing and seeing this song in the summer of 1981 literally changed my life. I turned down a path of individuality and creativity and music and I never looked back.
falling in love with this at 14 now. hope i'll still be listening in 40 years
59 and still loving it,as well as the rest!
Adam had an incredible run from end of 1980 to early 1982.
Kings of Wild Frontier, Stand & Deliver, Prince Charming, Ant Rap, Goody Two Shoes.
He was on a manic high working 18 hours a day cranking out hit after hit.
Great videos.
I loved Adam and the Ants back in day, Kings of the Wild Frontier is a classic album. Thanks for the great memories. These songs are timeless classics. And now my daughter is into this music so it's great as I get to listen to it all over again.
I wonder if any of these old videos will get the upscaled HD treatment? That would be great.
This dude was hella good looking !
Gay
@@neilchristie6387 during pride month, no less
@@neilchristie6387 Was/is he? I doubt he'd have any trouble either way, lol.
Charlie Murphy was right about how guys were dressing back then. th-cam.com/video/ff8LEx9Mw54/w-d-xo.html
Bought his album when I was like 17 now 56 ... and he's still incredible!!
same here
I was about 18 or so, and am 56 now as well👍
He still puts on an amazing show. He recently had some health issues, but will be touring or is back out there. (and I am barely behind you in age, still have all of my Adam Ant pins from back in the day!)
I'm glad I'm not the only 56 year old that still listens to Adam and the Ants! This was such a fun MTV video in the early 1980s. I still remember watching this video on MTV as late as 1988 and feeling sad because I knew music was about to change in the 1990s but I never expected all of the grunge bands to emerge.
Fully agree, Bob. Bought the albums when I was in my teens ... 56 now and still loving it !!
Was there ever a man so beautiful? I could drown in those eyes! He was way ahead of his time with the videos he did, they were great!
Apparantly this band had two full drum sets playing at the same time. Very unique. I love Adam Ant
Bin ein 1969 Jahrgang und finde Stand and Deliver auch heute noch gut 👍
Had SUCH a crush on him ever since the age of 6. He was the most beautiful thing my young eyes had ever before seen!
Such a yummy piece of eye candy!
i was in a pottery class in 1981 I got given detention for drawing a clay line across my nose and standing on my desk and shouting stand and deliver. my mum got called into school to see the teacher. haha
That was worth a detention Deckard.
Top lad! I just wonder if you also got grounded for enacting Killer In The Home as well!? :-D
Deckard good on ya Deckard
Ah, 80s music and school detentions, I got one for inciting half the class to bang on the table and stomp the floor like in JoBoxers Boxerbeat [Bam! Bam!]
Hahaha so cool, you rebel lol
All together now...🎶Kwah kwah, dah diddly kwah kwah, dah diddly kwah kwah...🎵
I’m 56, watched this on MTV when we’d race home from school to watch it. Still one of my favorite songs.
I'm 74 & miss when MTV still played videos, not the crap todsy! my dj husband played this song in 80's new wave alternative club back then! music was so damn great then! 😊
I m 56 ,and love 80'
58 and still gives me goosebumps...
59 I remember too.
uncccc
This is legitimately one of the best songs ever made. Most people could be proud for having written this alone, but he has an entire library of brilliant music on top of it.
their whole albums ( and his solo ones ) were all fantastically well crafted & produced . Unique Musical genius madness
The Albums are full of brilliant songs...apart from well known commercial stuff.
correct
When this 7" single came out ... I could NOT stop playing it! Still a great track decades later....
listen to more music , haha
I saw Adam and the Ants at The Palladium in New York in 1981. This guy had charisma up the wazoo! Ruffles and leather and ribbons in his hair, Oh My!
"Da deedly qua qua!"
I never would have had the nerve to write such a lyric, which is why no one will remember my name.
Stand and deliver indeed.
Salud!
No one could wear lip gloss or eyeliner like Adam Ant! So gorgeous! I loved AA when I was a teen! :)
I too get hot and bothered lol! He was such a sex symbol,,,
How could anyone truly understand and appreciate 'Ant-Music' unless they lived through that incredibly special era in time??
I can say that I've personally done my part in educating the 'kids', because in my family I've taught them WELL, and as a result, they're all totalled OBSSESSED with all things '80s'...which is adorable!!
Yrue❤
Pretty impossible to explain - truly had to be had to be there. Great job with the Young Ones😉😄
Pretty much the same thing here,my 30 yr.old son loves alot of 80's classic rock & metal,and horror flix!
Adam makes me feel like a teenager in my 50s ❤
I'm 44 and how am I only discovering this gorgeous man and his music?! He needs a movie made about him. Not the documentary, I've seen that and its amazing in its own right but there needs to be a blockbuster movie about this genius.
Happy 70th Birthday, Adam!!!
despite all his troubles the amazing Mr Ant is still going AND still dandy !!!
I'm 42. I was alive in the 80s and never really knew anything other than goody two shoes, which I didn't like. I just re-listened in my late 30s and thought it was great. I'm exploring the rest of his stuff now, in my 40s, and he's so great. Sorry it took me so long. Missed out
I'm 57. This video was on MTV every day in 1982. Those were the days. 😅
I'm 59, was and still is! a huge headbanger, and I loved Adam Ant. I still love him.
Missed him in Boston this year sadly.
Gen X forever!
He was, and perhaps is, insanely charismatic. I saw this video on MTV in 1982, and it was the first time I had ever seen or heard of him. I was an instant fan.
Adam Ant breaking through the window without a stunt double may be the coolest thing in any music video ever.
His face is BEAUTIFUL in the actual sense of the word. Not handsome, absolutely gorgeous.
Those eyes ❤
Reminds me other 80’s beautiful faces like Debbie Harry, Marilyn, Boy George! 😍
Gorgeously handsome
That mix of gorgeusness andcytterly handsome that few people possess
He was so perfectly androgynous and that bone structure…🤦🏻♀️
This is punk music.
Glorious glorious punk music from the punk era.
I know you were not there in the punk era, I was and this is definitely punk era music.
That short era was so influential on rock and roll and heavy metal going forward.
Matthew
Adam started out as a punk when he was younger, and his vocals almost always stayed that way.
Adam Ant, killer front man and song writer.
Legend
The 80's FOREVER!
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
A GEM in time we were fortunate to exist in!
The most handsome daring and imaginative singer in the 1980s. A record Adam Ant can be very proud of. Fame is so fickle people wanting to see the next best thing and Adam is one of all them but whoa what an impact he made.
He was definitely one of the first creators/adopters of the "New Romantic" look - it got a lot more polished and less "historical" after, but he rocked it hardcore
And he hated being associated with it. 😖
@@BWater-yq3jx lol. That's like Poison trying to say they weren't a hair band when they were the ground zero of hair bands. Same with Adam Ant getting all mad about it when he created the sh*t. May as well own it
Romantic look he was a pratt in real life posh boy silver spoon up his arse lol 😂😂😂😂😂
Except everyone knows Bowie created the New Romantic movement
I'd like to go back to the 80's and live it all over again
Mike Wazowski the best time of my life.
@@ursulabklyn_mia6148 Mine too.
I'd spend a shitload less time blowing weed the second time around, that's for sure.
Me too! Me too! :)
You must have forgotten about Thatcher and Reagan. th-cam.com/video/ZLllFMF-OkQ/w-d-xo.html might refresh your memory... (but I do know what you mean)
Adam and the Ants had the honour of being my first ever cassette tape I bought with my own money...at 12 years old! I had such a crush on him!
He was so gorgeous back then and Kings of the Wild Frontier was the biz!!!
Me and a mate saw Adam and the Ants playing Sydney in 1982 when we were both 14.I think we were almost the only males in the crowd and we kept getting our bums pinched, it was awesome.
I was 14 in 1982 as well. Cheers!
Um, excuse me? *Your bums kept getting pinched?*
i saw adam in concert a few days ago. my first rock gig at 13!!!
@@many.things9055 how was it? I’m 17 and going in three weeks! I’m so excited :D
@@inessalamanca6249 it was amazing!!! would definitely go again if the chance arises. me and my friends managed to push to the front and there were some people around us who were absolutely shit-faced, but i guess its all part of the experience. very fun 10/10 lol
I absolutely loved Adam and the Ants when I was a kid... I still do!! I was a crazy, mad little BMX punk fan kid... When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I went to the infant's school fancy dress party, dressed as Adam Ant (thanks to my big sister) and I actually won the fancy dress!! 😄
That sounds like an EPIC night!! I was 9, and I remember going round my freinds and we'd put it on his parent's super loud HIFI and we'd be bouncing around jumping up and down on the sofas like the lunatic little sh*ts we were. The song somehow super-aroused our excitement. Liberating! And of course his looks and the costumes, such wonderful campy dressing up. I'm 53 now and still think he looks wonderful in this video. If I could fit...I'd wear!! (I'm 6 foot 2 with 36 inch waist and size 14 boots...I don't think I'm fitting into Adamant's wardrobe anytime soon haha
Lol! 😂 it's funny, peculiar, aging, how people can relate to a point in time. I was a big fan of Adam & the ants too. Now grey, big feet & yep, 36 waist, lol! @uberbeast113
shh don't tell anyone but I remember when this first came out in 1981! wow was it really THAT long ago,those days when your boyfriend wore more eyeliner than you (and mine looked great!) and I still to this day love it and can dance round the living room to it.. ❤
Amazing how fresh this still sounds in 2016. It was like a sonic assault in 1981.
yep .. pre new romantic rules... bow wow wow another kick ass band
seandublinxxxxx bro it’s 2018 and i’m still waking up to thid
Add 2019 to that too... still rocking to this tune!
Here in 2019 It's still better than mainstream music
Heard it first in London, brought it home along with Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Great times.
His videos are absolutely epic. pure irony.
the guy had a good sense of humor
How can anyone not love this? Never fails to make me smile, feel energetic and nostalgic at the same time, and wish I could still jump out of trees like Adam.
Im 72 loved him lol x
This is exactly how I feel, jumping out of the trees
Love this song. Adam Ant was way ahead of his time.
WERE MAKING OUT OF THE 1980'S WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶🥶🥶
Where would we be without Adam and the Ants. What a showman; knows how to make an entrance, remain and then make an exit. Love 'em💙
Omg I am 51 years old now and this was my favorite band growing up!!!! When I listen to it I can literally feel the energy of my youth!!!! I am in tears with emotion!!!!
52.. first.show..thirtteeen Year.old.1983 San Francisco.civic..imsect Nation
Adam started MTV with this videos you will never hear music like this again. Happy 70th birthday Adam.🎉🎉🎉🎉
This song still holds up today. ANTMUSIC!!!!!
This song is officially 40 years old today.
I'm officially living on borrowed time and soon will be parallel for delivery
Indeed it is wow
😮😮😮 were did the years go😢
Phawk. I'm.52..first.show.adam.ant..san francisco.civic auditorium. Now. A Dead Jerry Head Rasta Floyd Allman's Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran 🏜️ Jah sisters Jah Trey Jah Duane Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I Jah
And as a Gen Xer, I still know every word to this song despite not knowing why I walked into the kitchen.
First record I ever bought. I was 9 (NINE!!) years old. Went into the record shop in Muswell Hill and asked the intimidatingly cool 80s punk girl behind the counter for Adam Ant! Handed my pennies over. I had a homemade record player in my bedroom and I swear I played that 7 inch record so many times it must have disintegrated at some point. I loved him so much! That and Tubby the Tuba got played to death. 😆😂 I moved on to tape and mini disc fairly quickly, but this will always be the first record in my now extensive 80s and 90s vinyl collection. ❤
@dave setchell I do!!! Share :-)
Love that story I can picture the scene!! Absolutely great song!!
@dave setchell oh my goodness. .. (Googles Terry Wogans Floral Dance) haha thanks for sharing dude :-)
My first single too. I was also 9 years old. I still love it. 😎
@dave setchell used to love that song when I was 8 or 9! In school in Friday assemblies we were allowed to listen to a song on the record player. The choice was mull of kintyre or floral dance. Loved them both.
Woke up with that song stuck in my head so here I am lol
Dang, we have 2019 and I still love Adam and the Ants. Timeless
He's still fit as....i refuse to believe he's 64!
@How Marvellous Am I Yes he is
@@gaynorlinder5967 I've got tickets to see him next year. Who cares about his age - I'm sure he'll put on a good show regardless! !
November 9th. 2019. I love Adam and the ants😃
Adam Ant is the most extraordinary looking man. There's not much I wouldn't have done to have him stand and deliver. Rather talented too. What I loved about the 80d was the way music, fashion, art all merged. Vivien e Westward so influential at this time on the London scene.
It's interesting, I'm a Renaissance Actor, and in my Renaissance Guild we had a couple that looked exactly like the Noble Couple in this video and this happens to be their favorite Adam Ant video as well ...
"Stand And Deliver"! ...🤘😎🎶🎵🎸
I've only just discovered him and ... ugh. I wish they'd made even just a few more like him! I hope he knows he's still so incredible,
This is music at it's finest! True genius in every possible way. Very fortunate to have been brought up with music of this calibre. I'm an 80's child and my mum had this on vinyl - I lived off music like this! They just don't write music for it's very purpose of being something to listen to and think about any more. That thing we call art has gone. But this art will always stand the test of time.
YerfiRitpal ikr. This song is awesome and 80s music is the best!
He sure was something to look at back in the day. I watched a documentary about him not long ago. He actually is quite a nice guy, too.
But didn't he spend time in a hospital for mental illness? I heard he threatened to assault a group of people once.
@@revacohen he has bipolar I think.
You see that boys and girls???? That's charisma 💥
He definitely had the X factor!
Bought this album in 81 at the ripe old age of 9...favourite album ever
Great album❤
The production on their songs was just fantastic! Just so POWERFUL. Nobody else sounded like this.
A glorious time 40 years ago when this guy ruled Great Britain!
Absolutely bar none!The greatest group.
The drumming! So memorable.
35 years old this month this video was released. It was the dawn of the music video and MTV. My sister had posters of this chap all over her bedroom walls. Along with Micky Rourke from 9½ Weeks. (Before he ruined himself) Fun fact, Adam, real name, Stuart Goddard, only briefly enjoyed the fruits of his new wave career before being crippled by manic depression and bi-polar disorder.
How long has this been part of my life...over 40 years. Where has all that time gone. This is like yesterday in my mind.
Although Adam and the Ant's never really hit it big in America I personally liked much of their unique style of music and videos.
is he autistic? am i? i identified and got this shit imediately whe i was a kid.. cant/wont stop listening
First concert San Francisco civic 83? Was thirteen Adam ant. So he made it to.sf. two drummer strip
I will say that this and few of his other songs got a lot of heavy play on early MTV back in the mid-80's as MTV needed just about any video they could find in those early days and many were British New Wave as groups in England seemed to embrace MV's a bit early than American acts did, so you saw a lot of British New Wave in those early days.
When I was younger I loved the way he dressed and the way he danced. I was so into the men wearing make up and frilly shirts. The new romantics era was beautiful.
akira doe ikr😍
Yes, but also a bit gay.
I can relate🤘
tsopmocful
A bit , how about a lot🤯🦄
tsopmocful Which is why so much of it bopped.
Adam Ant all day long
I'd like to go back to the 80's and live it all over again
Dang, we have 2019 and I still love Adam and the Ants. Timeless
I'm still listening to Adam and the ants,grew up with the new romantics etc, the 80s will still be listened to in 20yrs time,best decade for music in the world EVER, and my life,big up the 80s
Adam and the ants complete 1980s legends end of story 🤘
Man on man this song hit me like a flipp'n ton of bricks along with Antmusic. I was in Jr High and hated so much of the top 40 crap that permeated the industry. Adam Ant was so far ahead of his time. The sound of the two drummers was incredible. No one was like him and there will never be anyone close.
Why can’t we have cool music videos like this anymore?
GOOD QUESTION. 🤔
@egg arts Because the powers that be in the music industry think the only things that sells music is scantily clad females and profanity.
@@bigdenver7325 and needs to appeal to the dull US market
yeah these 80s songs are so cool, those modern songs with wailing Americans are so annoying!
Because the United Khaliphate is a muslim country now?
Adam and the ants , legends of the eighties, what more can I say .good times and great memories.
I'm so glad for him that he's playing sold out gigs across america right now...he deserves it
Neen88 I’ve seen him fairly recently, and he sounds just like this, maybe nor quite so gorgeous though, still he rocked
Lol he's pretty rough on the eyes these days ....plastic surgery and weight gain.
He has a huge cult following. Glad he got his act together.
@@whispersinthedark88 oh STFU ..Who cares you plonker!
Saw him in Bloomington IL. Those were the best years! Awesome show of course! MEMORIES 😊
Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here
This brings tears to my eyes. Oh what sweet memories !!!
💖💖💖 Still a *TOP NOTCH* video & song...even after all these years! His live shows are still *ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC!!!* Adam is *ALL IN* while performing & you just can't ask for more than that! He still is my life long favorite & I wish him only *TRUE HAPPINESS & WELLBEING!!!* 💖💖💖
I live next to the pub that Dick Turpin (the legendary highwayman) frequented.
It's very loud because of the planes from Heathrow, but I love it.
One of my favourite 80s songs ever! So brilliant! Love the Dick Turpin from Horrible Histories which is based on this song.
I thought the eyeliner on Mat Baynton was so random until I saw this video. Now it all makes sense!
Guyliner on Baynton is not ever a mistake. Ahem.
@@niseplank4527 Trufax. Ahem, indeed.
His closeups are contagiously fun! I love when he glances in the mirror, then tosses the gun aside with that fake worried smile! Lol 00:45. This whole video really seems like he's having such a blast. Boy, I really miss the 80s, when stuff like this was our mainstream music. Such creativity. Such variety. Boy, we didn't know how good we had it then.
Interviewed Adam Ant a couple of times. Here's a bit of audio of the first one: stevepafford.com/six-legs-good-adam-ants-antbox/
I just watched the video and thought he was humorously making Blondie-like facial expressions at the camera like she did in her videos apparently to be humorously sexy and I thought that was really funny. This was done in 1981 and Blondie was wildly popular in Britain from the mid 70s to a little bit after this video came out, so I think that must have been what he was doing. I was looking through the comments to see if anyone else thought that too.
Music is dead now only being born 85 i was lucky to catch the last end of the golden music now it kills my ears mainstream music
There's still good music if you take the time to look for it. Literally, just download indie music on your phone or something. The music on there is new and amazing.
Robbie R. Esq. So true dude
I miss my MTV. I haven't heard this in decades, but once I streamed this I was right back into that time period. A great song I forgot I loved. OG shit mate.
bloody hell he was handsome...I think Johnny Depp stole a lot of his moves for Pirates of Caribbean
He was handsome i really like him
And no one butter to look towards
he was inspired by keith richards
no keith richards but i cant believe he didnt watch this a million times too ha
Rather fitting, especially because highwaymen were contemporaries with pirates. Charming to think that while Captain Jack was out on the sea swashbuckling The Dandy highwayman was in some woodland shouting “ Stand and deliver!”
Sending wishes of good health to the Ant Man! 🖤🖤
I love how terrified Adam looks whenever he's jumping off stuff...
I remember watching this on MTV as a kid when I came home from school..... " good times good times " :-)....Go 80's !!!!!!
This may be my favorite but Adam and the Ants had many great songs. They were huge when i was in junior high but seems like people have kind of forgotten about them when it comes to 1980’s bands. Other than being talented and having great songs one of the things I like best about them is that they are probably one of the most unique and original bands ever. No one else from the past or present looks or sounds like Adam and the Ants. A true original.
Класс! Какая энергетика! Эти ребята задали жару в своё время, добавили красок среди рефлексирующих и мрачных направлений.
In the early eighties every time Adam and the Ants had a new single out, it was like a massive event!
Classic Adam and The Ants, you had to be there to appreciate good music like this, i was and i FUCKING love it!!!!
I loved his music then, and still do today. He was stunning in the last shot 😍
He is bloody perfect! Must be those Romanichal genes
I graduated from a hick school early when I was sixteen. I left for Alaska, married and had two kids by 1984. I was in UAA at night and working on a huge business plan with friends and their contacts. There were actual disco clubs in Anchorage then and heard Stand and Deliver the first time. I wish my kids could have comprehended how these videos changed everything!! No computer renderings...actual videos of acting! Fyi...divorced in 1987...lol.
GEN X forever.
I feel sorry for the young ones now.
They didn't have the AWESOME 80's and 90's to grow up in.