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Vive le Rock by Adam Ant
Vive le Rock is an album by Adam Ant, released in 1985. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Apollo 9”, on 2 lists with a best position of #45.
Vive le Rock, Adam Ant's third solo album, arrived on Columbia in September 1985, and it's the full flowering of the "rockers in space" look and attitude he'd launched a year earlier with "Apollo 9", a single the album carries in two different versions. For a producer he went straight to his heroes' man: Tony Visconti, who'd made his name in the '70s working with Marc Bolan and David Bowie. Visconti found Ant a whirlwind, opinionated and sure of what he wanted, and the pair tussled over the mix, Ant pushing for a trebly glare, Visconti leaning on the bottom end.
What came out is glam stomp on a sugar rush, all chrome and bluster. It stalled at 42 in the UK and 131 in the US, but Ant did get the title track in front of the world, playing it at Live Aid in 1985 as his lone song. After this, acting took up much of his time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Vive le Rock on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo 9 | 2 | #45 | – | 1984 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.