Adam and the Ants were 79 , new romantic didn’t occur til 82 wasn’t it?
From wiki: New Romanticism (also called Blitz kids and a variety of other names)[1] was a pop culture movement in the United Kingdom that began as a nightclub scene around 1979 and peaked around 1981.
Kings of a Wild Frontier was released late 1980 – bands like Duran Duran were already active and Spandau’s To Cut A Long Story Short was released in the same month I think.
And, to justify my suggestion that AatA were New Romantics, from wiki’s Duran Duran page: They worked with stylist Perry Haines and fashion designers such as Kahn & Bell and Antony Price to build a sharp and elegant image, soon outgrowing the ruffles and sashes of the pirate-flavoured early New Romantic look that had been popularised by Adam and the Ants during 1980–81. 😀
I’d forgotten that Adam Ant came out of the Malcolm McLaren stable. (Has he claimed to have invented NR? 🙄 ). I seem to remember watching an old documentary where Boy George was immensely irritated that Adam Ant had a hit before him?
Ultravox were my favourite band at the time – I would have been horrified to be put in the same camp as Culture Club or Duran Duran fans, but essentially they all came from the same place.