Friend or Foe (Adam Ant song)

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"Friend or Foe"
Single by Adam Ant
from the album Friend or Foe
B-side Juanito the Bandito
Released 11 September 1982
Format vinyl record (7")
Recorded 1982
Genre New wave, New Romantic
Length 3:23
Label CBS Records
Writer(s) Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni
Producer(s) Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni
Adam Ant singles chronology
"Goody Two Shoes"
(1982)		 "Friend or Foe"
(1982)		 "Desperate But Not Serious"
(1982)

"Friend or Foe" was the title track, and second single from Adam Ant's first solo album.[1] It was released 11 September 1982, exactly one month before the album came out.[2]

Single

Compared to its predecessor, "Goody Two Shoes," (number one on the UK Singles Chart, and number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US), "Friend or Foe" was received poorly by "Antpeople." It peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, and failed to chart in America.[3]

Credits

"Friend or Foe" was written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni. The track features Adam on vocals and bass guitar, Marco on guitar, Geoff Daly on saxophone, Martin Drover on trumpet and Bogdan Wiczling on drums. An alternate version with Chris "Merrick" Hughes on drums appears on Antbox. The music video, which received heavy rotation on MTV, was directed by Adam.

Juanito the Bandito

It was fairly common for Adam to rerecord old Adam and the Ants tracks for the B-side of his singles. For "Friend or Foe," an old Ants song from 1977 called "Juanito the Bandito" was used. This particular version was recorded in 1982.

References

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External links

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