25 November 1980 The band produce an exciting, physical sound but Adam is so lost in his Hollywood fantasies that his performance becomes risible
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For the past three years, no group has been more despised than Adam and the Ants. They have always had a fanatical following, but their melodramatic style – a combination of art school and thuggery – made them the band the critics loved to hate. Recently, to everyone’s astonishment, they produced a hit single and a wonderful album called King of the Wild Frontier.
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