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Adam & the Ants: Who Invited the Ants to America's Rock Picnic?

Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 12 April 1981

 

WHEN THE Ants come marching two by two on their way to their show at the Bayou, they create a decidedly loud clash — a bright flash of rainbow in a gray world of military men and staid tourists standing around the lobby of the Quality Inn. The four-member Antcrew is scurvy enough, with bright pantaloons and shirts, slaps of paint across their faces, but all eyes are on the Captain. Adam Ant. He is magnificAnt.

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