Adam Ant Friend or Foe
Country UK
Label CBS
Catalogue Number 40-25040
Matrix numbers n/a
Format Cassette
Release date 11th October 1982
Side 1 Friend or Foe Something Girls Place in the Country Desperate but not Serious Here Comes the Grump Hello I Love You
Side 2 Goody Two Shoes Crackpot History and the right to Lie Made of Money Cajun Twisters Try This For Sighs Man Called Marco
Adam Ant Marco Pirroni Bogdan Wiczling
1982 and Adam has gone solo after the success of the Prince Charming Revue The album features the UK number one single Goody Two Shoes, although the version released as a single is different to this the album version
The cover photo, by Allan Ballard, is a still from Adam's performance on the UK ITV programme The Cannon and Ball Show
This version of the UK cassette proudly boasted that it was a Chromium Dioxide cassette which was "To ensure all buyers benefit from the enhanced performance of the CrO2 tape"
Chrome tapes gave an increase in high frequency response over the standard "normal" bias tapes.
The technology was had been available since the early 1970s but remained a niche market, by the late 70's and early 80s the demand for better quality recordings and higher definition resulted in releases such as this.
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