Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) representing an element of Adam Ant’s personality. The video ends with Adam smashing a mirror, then singing the "Prince Charming, Prince Charming/Ridicule is nothing to be scared of" refrain as different characters: the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), Alice Cooper, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino from the silent film "The Sheik"), and his own "Dandy highwayman" from the "Stand and Deliver" video. The music video was one of Diana Dors' last on-screen performances. According to Adam, Prince Charming is based on Beau Brummell. Pirroni described the song as "A cleverer
Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter further insight into the origins of the song, explaining that he and Ant have "a mutual friend who I had played around on a track with who then passed the music over to Adam without my knowledge. I then explained the track couldn't be used for his album (this was just a rough demo) and thought the matter was closed. Adam then mentioned in the press he had recorded with one of Oasis, but Liam Gallagher had banned the track from being used." Ant eventually rerecorded the song for the final release with two members of his live band, guitarist