Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Music playing in the family home: I Wish I Was A Spaceman
04:01 - 100 Club, 1976
08:20 - The SEX jukebox
11:38 - Meeting Adam Ant
16:56 - Kings of the Wild Frontier
19:22 - Clothes
21:20 - Ten months in the sun
25:05 - A challenge by Rolf Harris
29:06 - Brian Setzer's guitar
33:58 - The end of the Ants
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Marco Pirroni’s moment in the sun was big, lucrative but incredibly short. It was under a year from Adam & the Ants’ first hit to their last and immediate break-up. Adam, he remembers, was the perfect writing partner – driven, intensely competitive and with “a pathological fear of only being Number 2”. He’s got no regrets, hasn’t had to do day’s work since, and looks back here at …
… being the first band writing songs for the video age
… “you can’t confuse fans buying records with love, it’s nothing personal”
… Telstar, Fireball XL5, Roxy Music and the “moon-stomping hits of Slade”
… playing covers of songs they didn’t like with Siouxsie at the 100 Club: “punk rock and my part in its downfall”
… Adam’s “Shakespearian tirade” at the legal meeting with Rolf Harris when he sued over Prince Charming and War Canoe
… Malcolm McLaren’s jukebox: the Flamin’ Groovies, Alice Cooper, the Troggs, “songs that weren’t very good”
… “we stopped being a punk band or a pop band or a glam band – or any sort of band at all”
… never tour America when you don’t have a bank account.
Order ‘Your Money Or Your Life’ here: https://tr.ee/P2_qxNZ6jC
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Music playing in the family home: I Wish I Was A Spaceman
04:01 - 100 Club, 1976
08:20 - The SEX jukebox
11:38 - Meeting Adam Ant
16:56 - Kings of the Wild Frontier
19:22 - Clothes
21:20 - Ten months in the sun
25:05 - A challenge by Rolf Harris
29:06 - Brian Setzer's guitar
33:58 - The end of the Ants
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Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock & Roll going: patreon.com/wordinyourear
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Marco Pirroni’s moment in the sun was big, lucrative but incredibly short. It was under a year from Adam & the Ants’ first hit to their last and immediate break-up. Adam, he remembers, was the perfect writing partner – driven, intensely competitive and with “a pathological fear of only being Number 2”. He’s got no regrets, hasn’t had to do day’s work since, and looks back here at …
… being the first band writing songs for the video age
… “you can’t confuse fans buying records with love, it’s nothing personal”
… Telstar, Fireball XL5, Roxy Music and the “moon-stomping hits of Slade”
… playing covers of songs they didn’t like with Siouxsie at the 100 Club: “punk rock and my part in its downfall”
… Adam’s “Shakespearian tirade” at the legal meeting with Rolf Harris when he sued over Prince Charming and War Canoe
… Malcolm McLaren’s jukebox: the Flamin’ Groovies, Alice Cooper, the Troggs, “songs that weren’t very good”
… “we stopped being a punk band or a pop band or a glam band – or any sort of band at all”
… never tour America when you don’t have a bank account.
Order ‘Your Money Or Your Life’ here: https://tr.ee/P2_qxNZ6jC
