He gained popularity as the lead singer of new wave group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three UK No. [59] As with the previous leg, Ant passed the time until the tour playing one-off dates, appearing with his tour band in Bedford on 10 September[51] before three days later reuniting with 2010 band members Crewdson and Love for a charity show on board HMSBelfast. Ant subsequently performed the full album again with his regular band for four nights at the Islington Assembly Hall in November 2014 and a full UK tour in Spring 2015. [101] Ant also appeared on American television shows, including The Equalizer,[102] Sledge Hammer!,[103] Tales from the Crypt[104] and Northern Exposure[105] in which he played a rock musician. "[9] Ant is involved in the Black Dog campaign, which promotes better understanding of mental illness.[134]. They also guested with such bands as Dweeb and Rachel Stamp. After his many more albums, Ant took a turn at acting after entering Hollywood. After six assorted dates around the UK in early July, Ant's next major show was a headline slot at the Silverstone Classic Festival on 21 July[72] followed the next day by an appearance at Rewind in Perth and then at Camp Bestival on 27 July 2012. To promote this exhibition, Ant performed a solo charity concert at the gallery on 6 March[64] with the same two band members as the Ronnie Scotts concert from the previous December. 1,657 Adam Ant Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,657 adam ant stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. In 1996, Ant and Pirroni recorded two new songs, "Lam" and "Inseminator", for the soundtrack to Ant's latest film Drop Dead Rock. This trio of singles was promoted by some of the most lavish music videos of the period and paved the way for Ant's later acting career. [60] As with the previous tour, the itinerary was expanded from the initial 12 dates to an eventual 21 dates running from 10 November in Frome until 16 December in Norwich, (with a non-tour acoustic gig at a benefit event for London's Wilton Hall venue thrown in for good measure). He has not shared any information regarding his current relationships. It was also described as being "one of Ant's best records and one of the best new wave albums". The situation drove me round the twist." His first wife was actualy Carol Mills, but when Stuart Goddard changed his name to Adam, what else could she become? Ant performed yet another low key show at the Southwark Playhouse on Saturday 20 March. In 1981, the band had surprising seven singles which included Stand and Deliver. [42] Ant Anstead, the 41-year-old host of British car show "Wheeler Dealers," shared a black-and-white photo to Instagram on Saturday of himself and his wife, who gave birth a year ago to their . The concert was well received, although an inebriated Chrissie Hynde who was in attendance, heckled throughout the performance. I was very, very bad at pacing," he later remembered. He scored 10 UK top 10 hits from 1980 to 1983, including three UK number one singles: 'Stand and Deliver', 'Prince Charming' and 'Goody Two Shoes'. (2012) With Spear of Destiny Outland (1987) With The Slits Revenge of the Killer Slits (2006) [9] For his personal life, it is known that Adam married Carol Mills in 1975 but their marriage ended in divorce shortly after. [55] The tour closed in Manchester on 5 June with a show at the city's Manchester Academy. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur, and his mother was an embroiderer for Norman Hartnell. During early 2014, Ant was at work recording his next album, titled Bravest of the Brave. I went fucking nuts.". Ants_Invasion on Instagram: "Adam Ant in 1990 (Source: Alamy Stock Photo Photographer: B4RXDP) #adamant #1990 #alamystockphoto #B4RXDP #heartjumper #ants_invasion". One track from the EP, Jungle Rock, was eventually released on Boorer's 2008 solo LP Miss Pearl. Last January, a tabloid ran a sad story about one of the great pop icons of the 1980s. He also described the album as "very autobiographical, very personal. Slack says the couple ended up in Pikeville back in 1996 because of a desire to visit Graceland in Memphis, an inability to read a map, a Cracker Barrel in Chattanooga and a beautiful cabin on Dayton Mountain. [57] Ant later slotted in some more solo gigs, including the Soho Festival in London's Wardour Street on 11 July. Touch device users can explore by touch or with swipe gestures. By 1985 he had passed his peak. And it's the look as much as the music that has lasted more than 35 years. He renamed himself Adam Ant, because "I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. [44] He also performed some smaller guerilla gigs in Autumn 2010, which received no advance billing, including a solo show at the Dark Mills festival at London's Colour House Theatre on 4 September 2010, the launch party of the Illamasqua store on 16 September (at which Boy George served as DJ), and a guest spot at the Monster Raving Loony Party's annual conference in Fleet, Hampshire, on 25 September. His first solo album was Friend or Foe (1982), from which the debut single "Goody Two Shoes" reached number one in the UK and Australia in 1982, and became his first top-20 hit in the United States. [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. Despite the US Top-20 success of the single "Room at the Top" from that album, Ant was dropped from MCA Records, and the fully recorded Persuasion (1991) was shelved and never officially released. He would have doffed his hat, but of course grasshoppers don't wear hats. But a few . Anyone over 30 belongs to me. On 19 April, Ant performed his debut album Dirk Wears White Sox at the Hammersmith Apollo with a band including former Ants Dave Barbe and Lee Gorman, preceding this with several UK tour dates. Adam is a musician and singer, best known for being the lead singer of the group Adam and the Ants. He previously dated actresses Amanda Donohoe between 1977 and 1981, Jamie Lee Curtis in 1983 and Heather Graham in the early 1990s. A US tour began in New York on 8 November. In November 1981, Adam & the Ants released another highly successful album, Prince Charming. 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. Adam Ant has been divorced from Carol Mills since 1982. Rick Springfield won the award, for 'Jessie's Girl'. Nobody could have stopped me, or make me do it. Learn from their ways and be wise! While going through a divorce and a downward career spiral, his manager told him to find a nice quiet place to relax for a while. He has dark brown hair color and her eye color is blue. Listen to Adam Ant. On Thursday 21 October, Ant performed at the Union Chapel, London. [4]:4, The first band Goddard joined was Bazooka Joe, in which he played bass guitar. In a series of interviews, Ant outlined the origins of his mental. Title: Compilations. "I like to use the word 'mutiny'. Ant McPartlin and his estranged wife Lisa Armstrong ended their 11-year marriage in a 30-second hearing today after he admitted adultery with his new girlfriend. My band was happy to go. [86] After cancelling shows in New York and Philadelphia, the tour continued. [68], Although poor ticket sales forced the cancellation of the Adelaide gig,[69] the remaining four concerts all went ahead. 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 . Adam Ant Tour Dates. He said: 'Look, what do you want?' [37], In September 2006, he published his autobiography, Stand & Deliver. In 1995, Ant released the album, Wonderful. [13] Merrick also briefly stayed as drummer and producer for the UK edition of the first solo hit single "Goody Two Shoes"which made it to No. [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". Proverbs 6:6. The band signed a major label deal with CBS Records and recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier during the summer of 1980. In 1992, Nine Inch Nails released a cover of Adam & the Ants' "Physical (You're So)" on their Broken EP, originally released on the Kings of the Wild Frontier LP. Stuart Leslie Goddard, may be . Angie Greaves Or he would be if not for his still-unique dress sense. Music - Singer. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. A free concert in Rome took place on 14 June and a second full length 40 plus show US tour got underway on 17 July in San Diego and ran to 21 September in Anaheim. He got married for the first time when he was 20 years old. What the fuck was New Romantic?" Knighthoods were made, Bono got it made, and it was a waste of f**king time. A further North American tour originally planned for AprilMay 2020 was shifted back to 2021 then 2022 as result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adam Ant is an intellectual, a deep thinker, but without one whit of pretension in his manner. Goddard then attended Barrow Hill Junior School where he was a member of the cricket team and he passed the eleven-plus exam. "I ended up in Cedars Sinai hospital for six weeks. They broke after four years of dating. The ceremony took place in Dayton, Tennessee. He now lives alone in a small flat in Primrose Hill, north London. After approaching producer Malcolm McLaren to manage his band, McLaren instead took his backing band to form the group Bow Wow Wow. There was a time when everyone under 30 would have recognised him, the most theatrical star of the camp early 1980s, but 20 years on he's essentially anonymous. 151. r/punk. In his first interview since his surprise split from his wife of less than two years . [14] The Friend or Foe album also produced another top ten single, "Friend or Foe", which reached No. I said: 'I wanna sell millions of records', and he said, 'Well, you're going the wrong way about it. [39][40], On 4 March 2010, Adam Ant registered his new label Blue Black Hussar Ltd. as a private limited company at Companies House. I did it. [45], Ant headlined at the Scala again on 18 November,[46] joined by a trio of female backing singers. Click on image to see releases. 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. From 1977 to 1982 he performed with Adam and the Ants. He began playing music at art college. [30] These new songs with Pirroni were for Ant's own new label Blend Records. But it's not all bad news, he tells. Following the abrupt departure of Mooney in February 1981, bassist Gary Tibbs, formerly of Roxy Music, joined the band. He led Adam and the Ants in the early 1980s. [76] According to Ant, the album is a "live record that lends itself to performance" and will feature a "kind of concept. Education: Attended Hornsey School of Art, London. Later his mom supported him by working as a domestic cleaner. I might as well have been dead. [4]:312315 Ant's court trial was held later that year at the Old Bailey in London. "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. [18] The latter two adopted the stage names Count Wiczling and Chris De Niro respectively and were upgraded from live backing musicians to being full-time band members, featured on record sleeves,[18] logos[19] and even in song lyrics. Born Stuart Leslie Goddard, November 3, 1954, in London, England. [82] In an interview for Bizarre magazine published that month, Ant named the song co-written with Andy Bell as "Cool Zombie".[83]. Adam Ant. It had previously been at number 8 in the Midweeks. Ant became an outlet for Goddard's interest in eroticism, and early gigs saw him performing bondage routines on stage, which chimed with the punk era's fascination with subversive sex. As part of the promotion, the band performed a live TV session for Channel 4 music show Bliss hosted by Muriel Gray. I literally couldn't move. But unfortunately, the popular band broke up in 1982. The album was another moderate success, and featured the single "Room at the Top", which was a Top 20 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. The success flowed with another hit album in 1982, Prince Charming which produced a shocking 16 hits and sold more than 15 million records. 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. He mentored me. This union of Adam and Eve didn't last long; they married in 1975 and divorced shortly. After such a craze among its fans, Adam became the face of New Wave music. See all Adam Ant's marriages, divorces, hookups, break ups, affairs, and dating relationships plus celebrity photos, latest Adam Ant news, gossip, and biography. Then Ant - whose current favourite act is the most theatrical of the new decade, Marilyn Manson - says: "I'll give you my card." No credit card needed. [51] Ant completed the schedule of tour dates[53] which were overwhelmingly enthusiastically received. The best dressed, suited and booted, verse-chorus-verse-chorus period since Abba.". The live, raw sound of the album just adds to the appeal. 5 in the UK charts in October 1983. [92], In a review for Strip, the songs were considered to contain a "mixture of driving, danceable rock with humour". Stuart Leslie Goddard, better known as Adam Ant, is an English singer, musician, and actor. He has a daughter with his former wife, PR assistant Lorraine Gibson. Pirroni later referred to these recordings as the Blend Demos. Both London concerts were filmed and later released as the DVD album Dirk Live At The Apollo. He also reissued the Dirk album on white vinyl on his Blueblack Hussar label, with a launch party gig at the 100 CLub. "I just didn't eat," he has said of this period, "I wasn't attempting to slim, I was attempting to kill myself." Browse Adam Ant tour dates and order tickets for upcoming events near you. Since 2010, Ant has continued his music career, performing live regularly in his hometown of London and beyond, recording and releasing a new album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (2013, UK number 25), and completing eight full-length UK national tours, five US national tours, and two Australian tours.