Stand and Deliver (song)
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| Single by Adam & the Ants from the album Prince Charming |
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| Released | Spring 1981 | ||||
| Format | vinyl record (7") | ||||
| Genre | New Wave | ||||
| Length | 3:08 | ||||
| Label | CBS Records | ||||
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"Stand and Deliver" was Adam & the Ants' most successful single. It entered the UK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks.[1] It was featured on their Prince Charming album. The lyric "stand and deliver - your money or your life" was a phrase commonly used by highwaymen in eighteenth 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 by Amanda Donohoe who at the time was Adam's girlfriend.
This song featured in the 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, they have also performed this at various live shows to great reception.
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| Preceded by "Making Your Mind Up" by Bucks Fizz |
UK number-one single May 3, 1981 |
Succeeded by "Being with You" by Smokey Robinson |
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