Persuasion (Adam Ant album)
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Persuasion was the planned fifth studio solo album by Adam Ant
Adam Ant
Adam Ant is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of New Wave/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring ten UK top ten hits between 1980 and 1983, including three No.1s...

, planned for 1992-3 but never released. The album has however surfaced as bootlegs and nowadays circulates on file sharing
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 networks. This album is one of the 20 written about in "The Greatest Music Never Sold" by Dan Leroy, a book that reveals information on the legendary lost recordings of many famous artists.

The album featured a collaboration between the Adam Ant/Marco Pirroni
Marco Pirroni
Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer...

 partnership and Bernard Edwards
Bernard Edwards
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, longtime bass player with the disco
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 group Chic
Chic (band)
Chic was an African American disco and R&B band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is known best for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love" , "Good Times"...

. Edwards' Chic bandmate Tony Thompson
Tony Thompson
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 played drums on most of the album, except for the title track plus Headgear and Survival of the Fetish which all featured drummer Dave Ruffy
The Ruts
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 who had previous worked with Pirroni under Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

. Also featured on the album were Cameo
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 guitarist Larry Blackmon
Larry Blackmon
Larry Ernest Blackmon is the lead singer and frontman for the funk and R&B band, Cameo. He came to Cameo from the band, Black Ivory....

 (on the track Little Devil) and former Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were a British rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original group, which existed from 1977 to 1980, became notable as a cult band marking the transition from the late-1970s punk rock era to the post-punk and New Wave era...

 bassist Leigh Gorman
Leigh Gorman
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.

Despite the US Top 20 success of the single Room At The Top from previous MCA album Manners & Physique
Manners & Physique
Manners & Physique is the fourth solo album from Adam Ant. It was released by March 1990 by MCA Records. The single "Room at the Top" peaked at number 13 in England and number 17 in America...

, the label rejected the album and dropped Ant as the album had failed to achieve Gold status in the US.

Following the rejection of the album by MCA, Adam, together with a new band including Pirroni and Ruffy, would embark on the live 1993 Persuasion Tour to attract a new label for the album, including a three night stand at Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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' Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
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 Theatre. Although Ant was able to sign to new label Capitol Records
Capitol Records
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 in the USA and EMI
EMI
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 in the UK, MCA proved unwilling to let go of the Persuasion master tapes and so a new album Wonderful
Wonderful (Adam Ant album)
Wonderful is Adam Ant's fifth solo studio album, the eighth LP overall of his career and at present his most recently released album. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band for this album included ex-Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy and Morrissey's guitarist Boz Boorer and Marco Pirroni...

 was recorded instead with the band from the tour.

Seventeen years later, onstage at the Scala
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 on 30 April 2010, Adam recalled the events of the non-release of the album and announced his intention to release it soon with artwork by Jamie Hewlett
Jamie Hewlett
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. A concert at the Electric Ballroom
Electric Ballroom
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, tentatively scheduled for 12 August 2010 but which never materialised, was due to have featured songs from the album.

Track listing

  1. "Persuasion" (4:10)
  2. "Headgear" (4:03)
  3. "All Girl Action" (4:23)
  4. "Brain Candy" (4:17)
  5. "Obsession" (4:00)
  6. "Little Devil" (3:48)
  7. "Sexatise You" (4:04)
  8. "Survival of the Fetish" (4:29)
  9. "Charge of the Heavy Brigade" (4:37)
  10. "Don't Knock It" (4:10)

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