Marco Pirroni

Marco Pirroni
Birth name	Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni
Born	27 April 1959 (1959-04-27) (age 52)
Origin	Camden Town, North London, England
Genres	New Wave, post-punk, new romantic, punk rock
Occupations	Musician
Years active	1976–present
Associated acts	Adam and the Ants, Adam Ant, Rema Rema, The Wolfmen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, Spear of Destiny
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul Junior

Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni (born 27 April 1959, Camden Town, North London, England^[1]) is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others in a career spanning the late 1970s to the present day.

Biography

Born in Archway, he lived with his parents in Camden Town, until 15 years old, when they moved to Harrow. Attended art school briefly, but truanted to hang out at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's famous SEX (boutique) in the King's Road.

Siouxsie and the Banshees

A lynchpin of the UK punk scene, Pirroni’s first appearance on stage was with Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was their debut gig and at 1976’s 100 Club Punk Festival and the Banshees, with Pirroni on guitar and Sid Vicious on drums.

Short-lived bands

Pirroni then formed The Models (who recorded the single, "Freeze", in 1977) and then Rema-Rema, whose "Wheel in the Roses" EP appeared on the 4AD record label the following year. In those days he formed part of Cowboys International but it was for short time. He then teamed up with then cult punk outfit - Adam and the Ants – in 1980 and within a year the band was on the brink of worldwide acclaim.

Adam Ant

An integral part of the band, Pirroni acted as lead guitarist and co-songwriter, penning two UK number one singles and a further four Top Ten hits, with Ant. The two albums he co-wrote for Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming – both made the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart ("Kings" #1; "Prince Charming" #2) .

When the Ants disbanded in 1982, Pirroni was retained as Adam Ant’s co-writer and they produced another number one single ("Goody Two Shoes") and the album (Friend or Foe), followed by nine more Top 20 hits. Adam and Pirroni won two shared Ivor Novello Award, for "Stand and Deliver".

Adam Ant, working with Pirroni, left an indelible commercial and creative stamp across the 1980s and pop music in general. Adam sold more than eighteen million records worldwide, scoring Number ones in Australia, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Israel, Japan as well as in the UK. Their partnership's success was not just confined to the 1980s, with Ant's solo hits going Top 10 in the U.S. and Top 20 in the UK in 1990, plus a further Top 40 hits in the UK and the US in 1995.

Sinéad O'Connor

In early 1987, Marco Pirroni featured on Sinéad O'Connor's debut album The Lion and the Cobra. Then in 1990 he worked with her again, on her second album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. In 1994 he worked with her to record her fourth album, Universal Mother. He is currently co-writing her new album, which is expected to be released early 2010.^[2]

Recent years

The present decade has seen Pirroni increasingly cited as an authority on the punk movement – both on record and in print. Having consulted on two major compilations Punk and Dread Meets The Punk Rockers Uptown, he released the SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die and Biba: Champagne and Novocaine on his own label, Only Lovers Left Alive.

Pirroni played on The Slits' EP, Revenge of the Killer Slits in 2006. He is currently a member of The Wolfmen with Chris Constantinou. They have released one EP, several singles, written music for television advertisements and released a debut album, entitled Modernity Killed Every Night. The Wolfmen are due to release their second album, Married to the Eiffel Tower in spring 2011.

Discography

With Adam and the Ants

• Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)
• Prince Charming (1981)

With Adam Ant

• Friend or Foe (1982)
• Strip (1983)
• Vive Le Rock (1985)
• Manners & Physique (1990)
• Persuasion (Adam Ant album) (Unreleased) (1993)
• Wonderful (1995)

With Sinéad O'Connor

• The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
• I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
• Universal Mother (1994)

With Spear of Destiny

• Outland (1987)

With The Slits

• Revenge of the Killer Slits (2006)

With The Wolfmen

• Modernity Killed Every Night (2008)

References

1. ^ onlyloversleftalive.co.uk
2. ^ A New Years message from Sinead

External links

• - Official MySpace for The Wolfmen

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