Room at the Top (song)

"Room at the Top"
Single by Adam Ant
from the album Manners & Physique
B-side Bruce Lee
Released 5 February 1990
Format vinyl record (7"), 12" single, CD single, cassette single
Recorded 1989
Genre New wave, New Romantic
Length 4:09
Label MCA Records
Writer(s) Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & André Cymone
Producer(s) André Cymone
Adam Ant singles chronology
"Vive Le Rock"
(1985)		 "Room at the Top"
(1990)		 "Can't Set Rules About Love"
(1990)

"Room at the Top" was the lead track from Adam Ant's 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]

Charts

After having spent most of the past five years working on his acting career, this was Adam'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 & did the 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" & House Vocal versions of "Room at the Top" were also added.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Adam Ant (12 March 1990). "Manners & Physique". Adam-Ant.net. MCA Records.
  2. ↑ Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni & André Cymone (5 February 1990). "Room at the Top". Adam-Ant.net. EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
  3. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Adam Ant Bio". MTV.com. MTV.
  4. ↑ Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni (7 May 1982). "Goody Two Shoes". Adam-Ant.net. EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
  5. ↑ Adam Ant. "Top Songs/Chart Singles Discography". Music VF.com.
  6. ↑ "Room at the Top by Adam Ant". Songfacts®, LLC.
  7. ↑ Adam Ant (20 July 2009). "Manners & Physique". Adam-Ant.net. Cherry Red Records.
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