| "Room at the Top" | ||||
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| Single by Adam Ant | ||||
| from the album Manners & Physique | ||||
| B-side | "Bruce Lee" | |||
| Released | 5 February 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Dance-rock, new wave | |||
| Length | 4:09 (Single Version) 4:43 (Album Version) | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & André Cymone | |||
| Producer(s) | André Cymone | |||
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| "Room at the Top" on YouTube | ||||
"Room at the Top" is a song by Adam Ant, and the lead track on his fourth solo album, Manners & Physique. [1] It was released as a single on 5 February 1990, a month prior to the album's release. [2] It would prove to be Ant's final top 20 single in the US.
Charts
After having spent most of the past five years working on his acting career, this was Ant's first single since "Vive Le Rock" in 1985. [3] "Room at the Top" peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his second biggest hit in the US behind " Goody Two Shoes". [4] It was also a number three dance hit in America. It reached number thirteen on the UK Singles Chart. [5]
Credits
"Room at the Top" was written by Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & Prince protégé André Cymone. Adam only provided vocals for the track, while Marco played guitar & bass guitar. Cymone produced the track, played keyboards & handled drum programming (or, as Manners & Physique's liner notes put it, "everything else"). "Room at the Top", was styled after the Minneapolis sound, as was most of the Manners & Physique album, of which (in Ant's words) Cymone was "one of the architects". [6]
"Bruce Lee"
The B-side to the single is called "Bruce Lee", an obvious homage to the late martial artist (Adam impersonates Bruce Lee in the " Ant Rap" music video). Both songs appear on both sides of the cassette single. When Manners & Physique was reissued on Cherry Red Records in 2009, "Bruce Lee" was one of five bonus tracks added. US remix, 7" edit of 12" and house vocal versions of "Room at the Top" were also added. [7]
References
- ^ Adam Ant (12 March 1990). "Manners & Physique". Adam-Ant.net. MCA Records.
- ^ Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & André Cymone (5 February 1990). "Room at the Top". Adam-Ant.net. EMI Music Publishing.
- ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Adam Ant Bio". MTV.com. MTV.
- ^ Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni (7 May 1982). "Goody Two Shoes". Adam-Ant.net. EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
- ^ Adam Ant. "Top Songs/Chart Singles Discography". Music VF.com.
- ^ "Room at the Top by Adam Ant". Songfacts®, LLC.
- ^ Adam Ant (20 July 2009). "Manners & Physique". Adam-Ant.net. Cherry Red Records.