“Room at the Top” by Adam Ant

"Room at the Top" opens Adam Ant's fourth solo album, Manners & Physique, and it hit the shops on 5 February 1990, some weeks before the album followed. It was his first single since "Vive Le Rock" in 1985, after years spent mostly on acting, and he came back sounding sleek and funky. He wrote it with guitarist Marco Pirroni and André Cymone, the Prince protégé who produced it and dressed it in the tight, synthetic Minneapolis sound.

Ant just sings, and he sounds right at home. It went to number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100, his second-biggest American hit after "Goody Two Shoes" and his last top-20 single there, and it reached number three on the dance chart and number thirteen in the UK.

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