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New Boots and Pants - First Episode
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1983
Last year most of the country's promising young bands split up, leaving us with the old school. Of this school, [Alastair] Riddell is one of the few to retain his credibility in 1983.– Rip It Up magazine, issue 68, March 1983
So unlock your juke box and do us all a favour, that music's lost its flavour, try another flavour, Antmusic, Antmusic...– Adam Ant ushers in the new wave with his 1980 pop hit Ant Music
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