Born in Marylebone, London, Ant began his musical career playing bass in the band Bazooka Joe. [11], In March 1982, feeling certain band members "lacked enthusiasm" Ant disbanded the group. That's not White Stripes as in the modish Detroit band, by the way, but the one Ant painted across his face to signal affinity with American Indians when he released 1981's Kings of the Wild Frontier, his 5m-selling breakthrough album. He gained popularity as the lead singer of post-punk group Adam And The Ants . The success flowed with another hit album in 1982, Prince Charming which produced a shocking 16 hits and sold more than 15 million records. [81] On his second visit to Iain Lee's show on Absolute Radio on 4 January 2011, two further new tracks were debuted, "Hard Men, Tough Blokes" and "punkyoungirl" [sic]. His debut as a recording artist was the song "Deutscher Girls", which featured on the film's soundtrack, along with "Plastic Surgery" which was performed in the film itself. [94], The fourth studio album, Manners and Physique, was said to be a combination of "contemporary dance tracks" and Ant's "old flair for mockery". His father had been in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur, while his mother was an embroiderer for Norman Hartnell. Ant Anstead has confirmed the decision to divorce was not his. Adam Ant is the stage name of Stuart Leslie Goddard (born November 3, 1954, London, England), lead singer of 1980s pop group Adam and the Ants and also a solo artist. He's also got flu, aggravated by staying up all night recording a Neil Diamond song called America, which he wants to release as a charity single for the New York firefighters. [106], Ivor Novello Award: The Best Selling "A" Side[131], Ant married Carol Mills in 1975 when they were both still students at Hornsey College of Art[4]:92 and they divorced in 1982. His nationality is British and his ethnicity is English. Then came depression, marriage woes - and an attack on his fish. The music had a hot blooded, beating heart after the introduction of the cold post punk synthesiser bands, and a look that on some might have looked a little strange, on Adam it simply oozed sexuality. "What with having a new baby and watching my marriage dissolve and not knowing where I'd get the dough to enjoy time with the baby, I felt like I was going to snuff it. In 1997, Ant married Lorraine Gibson, a 25-year-old PR assistant for Vivienne Westwood. Prior to recording his second album as Adam and the Ants, he asked producer Malcolm McLaren to manage his band, who instead took his backing band to form Bow Wow Wow. They also guested with such bands as Dweeb and Rachel Stamp. [4]: 94 In 1977, together with drummer Paul Flanagan, they went on to form Adam and the Ants (initially named just "The Ants"), with the inaugural band meeting held in the audience at a Siouxsie and the Banshees performance at the Roxy Club in London's Covent Garden.[10]. It annoys me that they always show them under the New Romantic label. [15], Ant recruited a new band for touring, consisting of new dual drummers Bogdan Wiczling (ex-Fingerprintz) and Barry Watts (ex-Q-Tips), plus guitarist Cha Burns (also ex-Fingerprintz), bassist Chris Constantinou and the former Q-Tips brass section of trumpeter Tony Hughes and twin saxophonists Stewart van Blandamer and Steve Farr. From a hard-scrabble, rough and tumble working class background - this bloke is 100% salt of the earth. [1] He has said that the idea of Adam Ant came to him after watching the Sex Pistols play their first gig in 1975: "After seeing the Pistols, I wanted to do something different, be someone else, but couldn't work out what and who". 356. I'm a punk rocker. A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black van. Then Ant - whose current favourite act is the most theatrical of the new decade, Marilyn Manson - says: "I'll give you my card." The title track was a successful single, as was a tour of the US in support of the album. I became a man. And after 21 years in the music business, the record company couldn't give a fuck and dropped me. He denies that "losing his fame" set it off, blaming instead the pressures of first-time fatherhood - daughter Lily will be four in March - and marital problems. [73] The rest of the summer saw Ant mix festivals such as the Summer Sundae Weekender on 18 August, Solfest on 24 August and the Isle of Wight Bestival with dates in such locations as Swindon, Southend-on-Sea, Warrington and Croydon. He released his third and final album with the group, Prince Charming (1981), which spawned two UK number-one singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming". "[9] Ant is involved in the Black Dog campaign, which promotes better understanding of mental illness.[134]. Adam Ant (Stuart Leslie Goddard) was born on 3 November, 1954 in Marylebone, London. Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard on 3 November 1954) is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of 1980s New Wave/post-punk group Adam & the Ants and later as a solo artist. This [debut album Dirk Wears White Sox] is the kind of esoteric stuff you do when you've done eight albums, you're living on a yacht, and you can do what you want'," he remembered later.[11]. After the groups split up in 1982, Ant decided to pursue a solo career while also battling depression and a bipolar condition. [63] A five-date warm-up UK mini tour for Ant and his band nonetheless went ahead for 1924 January 2012. In 1994, when I was 10 years old on family vacation in SF, I got chased down the street in Haight-Ashbury by crust punks for wearing a Green Day "Dookie" t-shirt. From 1977 to 1982 he performed with Adam and the Ants, and their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox (1979) reached number one on the UK Independent Albums Chart. In November 1981, Adam & the Ants released another highly successful album, Prince Charming. After all, it was he who sang on 1982's Prince Charming: "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. Title: Miscellaneous Album releases/Best of. The band signed a major label deal with CBS Records and recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier during the summer of 1980. He led Adam and the Ants in the early 1980s. 526 January 1978 (four successive Thursdays). He takes a morose drag on his Lucky Strike. [86] After cancelling shows in New York and Philadelphia, the tour continued. PERFORMER "Adam Ant" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "13 - Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe.wav" WAVE TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Friend Or Foe" PERFORMER "Adam Ant" ISRC GBBBN8200012 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "14 - Adam Ant - Strip.wav" WAVE TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Strip" PERFORMER "Adam Ant" ISRC GBBBN8300014 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "15 - Adam Ant - Vive Le Rock.wav . He recites the chorus and he's right - it's as radio-unfriendly as they come. I did it. By 1985 he had passed his peak. I might have had a broken heart at the time, but Malcolm didn't leave me with nothing. ", Documentary on Ant's return to music in 20102011, directed by. [4]:248 In 1990, Ant returned with Manners & Physique, a collaboration with Andr Cymone, a solo artist and an early member of Prince's band. His pop star son, Adam Ant, had a string of chart hits in . In 2003, the Channel 4 television special titled The Madness of Prince Charming[7] 13 in September 1984, the parent album Vive Le Rock was released in September 1985, to mixed reviews. Rick Springfield won the award, for 'Jessie's Girl'. I was very, very bad at pacing," he later remembered. ADAM ANT | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company ADAM ANT Singles Albums 1 UK Number 1s 3 UK Top 10s 7 UK Top 40s 11 UK Top 75s 2 Weeks at Number 1 13 Weeks in Top 10 36. [61] The first record release of Ant's 2010s comeback also occurred at this point, with the release of the Sex Drugs and HIV compilation album featuring Ant's version of "Get A Grip" which had been recorded a year earlier while the World Tour of London was in progress. Following the abrupt departure of Mooney in February 1981, bassist Gary Tibbs, formerly of Roxy Music, joined the band. Before that I was a little boy. Several songs were recorded, although only two "Miss Thing" from the new album and "Killer in the Home" from Kings of the Wild Frontier were actually transmitted. [7][9] In 1975, when he was living with his first wife at her parents' home in Muswell Hill, he suffered from depression and developed anorexia. [51][58] Ant also announced a follow-up UK tour (described as the "second leg" of the 2011 tour), initially scheduled to run for twelve dates from 11 November 2011 in Bristol until 13 December 2011 in Newcastle. It's a very old-fashioned, old-school, step-by-step album". [78], On 31 December 2010, Ant gave an interview for The Sun (featured in the "Something for the Weekend" segment) in which he discussed in considerable detail the various controversies surrounding his recent life and musical activities. [62], A few days before the end of the second leg of his UK tour, it was officially announced that Ant would make his return to the US with a 15-date North American tour in February 2012, starting on 2 February in Ant's former adopted hometown of Los Angeles and running until 25 February in nearby Anaheim. [8] He dropped out of Hornsey, short of completing his BA, to focus on a career in music. The bands performing are: Siouxsie Sioux / Iggy Pop / Billy Idol / Love And Rockets / Echo and the Bunneymen / Adam Ant / The Human League / Molchat Doma / Gary Numan / Boy Harsher / Modern English / Gang Of Four / Twin Tribes / ABC / Ela Minus / The Vapors / The Soft Moon / The Motels . In an interview during a set visit (via io9), Reed called Wright and Cornish's script the "spine" of the movie.The director explained that, like in the final film, Wright's version was a heist movie involving Hank Pym passing on his Ant-Man role to Scott Lang. He is the son of Betty Kathleen, an embroiderer, and Alfred Leslie Goddard, a chauffeur, who served in the Royal Air Force. Adam is active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Adam Ant was the chart warrior, the gypsy soldier, the man who said ridicule is nothing to be scared of. He got married for the first time when he was 20 years old. He was fined 500 and placed under a 12-month Community Rehabilitation Order for psychiatric care, with a suspended sentence. Stuart Leslie Goddard, may be . Profile: Adam Ant was born on November 3rd, 1954 and comes from the Marylebone area of London. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive". Here & Now 2002 opens on April 18 at Cardiff International Arena, then tours. Search instead in Creative? Late 1979 saw the release of their dbut album Dirk Wears White Sox (1979, Do It Records), with Matthew Ashman on guitar, Andy Warren on bass and Dave Barbarossa on drums. Alexis Jacknow plays the wife, Damian Cecere is the husband, and Marianne Muellerleile is the slouching criticizer and friend requester. Adam Ants played supporting roles in several movies and in 1989 he played his first lead in the movie Trust Me. He also reissued the Dirk album on white vinyl on his Blueblack Hussar label, with a launch party gig at the 100 CLub. Adam Ant has been in relationships with Georgina Baillie (2010 - 2011), Jamie Lee Curtis (1983), Vanity (1983 - 1984), Carole Caplin (1982), Tessa Hewitt (1981 - 1982), Amanda Donohoe (1977 - 1981) and Kim Wilde. "[23], A year after the hit single success of "Apollo 9", which reached No. But it's not all bad news, he tells. The best dressed, suited and booted, verse-chorus-verse-chorus period since Abba.". [135][136] In June 2003, it was reported that Ant had been arrested again on suspicion of criminal damage, before it was decided that he should be hospitalised for treatment. He appeared in films and TV shows like The Equaliser and Northern Exposure, and used his Brit-abroad status to woo actress Heather Graham, whom he dated for several months in the early 1990s. Click to listen to Adam. He looks for an ashtray, can't find one and flicks the ashes onto the table. Ant eventually returned to performing, performing as a guest on the NBC' show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, joined onstage by Diana Ross. The leader of iconic New Wave/post-punk group, Adam and the Ants, and one of the most original and innovative stars of the '80s. It reached number one in the UK Album Chart, spawned three hit singles, became the UK number-one selling album in 1981 (and the 48th best-seller in 1980), and won Best British Album at the 1982 Brit Awards. The album reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and number 16 on the US Billboard Album Chart, becoming his most successful solo album. Adam Ant is currently single. He jabs a fork into his Caesar salad. 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