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Adam Ant Biography

Adam Ant is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on November 3, 1954 in Marylebone, England, United Kingdom. Frontman of the post-punk band Adam and the Ants who sang “Goody Two Shoes” and also had a solo career, during which he released three UK #1 singles.

His mother worked for The Beatles member Paul McCartney.

Adam and the Ants started as part of the burgeoning punk rock movement. Ant later acted in Derek Jarman’s seminal “punk” film Jubilee in 1977, as Adam and the Ants was beginning to gig around London with manager Jordan from the SEX Boutique on Kings Road. 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. “Deutscher Girls”/”Plastic Surgery” was re-released as a single in 1982. The band toured extensively around the UK but proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. Late 1979 saw the release of their début album Dirk Wears White Sox (1979, Do It Records), with Matthew Ashman on guitar, Andy Warren on bass and Dave Barbarossa on drums.

Upon his discharge from the hospital, Goddard renamed himself Adam Ant, choosing the name because, “I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive”. He remade connections with fellow former B-Sides Lester Square and Andy Warren and together with drummer Paul Flanagan, they formed Adam and the Ants (initially named just “The Ants”) in 1977, 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.

He married Carol A Mills in 1975; after their divorce in 1982, he married Lorraine Gibson in 1997. He has a daughter named Lily.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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As the 1980s wore on, Ant’s attention turned toward acting, especially television and movie roles. He spent three months in England on stage starring in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane. In 1993 he played the lead in the Steven Berkoff play Greek, which was directed by Bruce Payne. He also appeared on American television shows, notably The Equalizer, Sledge Hammer!, Tales from the Crypt and Northern Exposure in which he played a rock musician. He began taking roles in films such as Nomads, Sunset Heat, Love Bites and Slam Dance. He moved to Hollywood and appeared in a wide range of productions and shows, producing a musical about rock ‘n’ roll legends Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran’s days on tour in England Be Bop A Lula, with a set designed by L.A. artist Michael Pearce.

Adam Ant Net Worth

Adam Ant is one of the richest Pop Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adam Ant's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joanna Saloman, his teacher, was the first to truly believe in his artistic talents.

MTV viewers rated him the sexiest man in America in his early career.

Stuart Leslie Goddard, better known as Adam Ant (born 3 November 1954) is an English singer and musician. 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. 1 singles. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in over two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003.

Ant was poised to join the 1980s-focused Here & Now tour in January 2002, but was unable to do so after he was arrested and charged with throwing a car alternator through a pub window and then threatening patrons with an imitation firearm. According to Ant, on the evening before the arrest, he had received telephone threats to himself and his young daughter from the jealous husband of a female Camden Market stallholder who had agreed to make some clothing for him. The following morning, advised by people around Camden that he would find the man in question at the Prince of Wales pub in Camden, Ant arrived there to confront his persecutor. Some of the pub patrons made fun of his appearance and told him in mocking terms that the man he was looking for was not present. Staff then asked him to leave as the premises were a private members’ club. Before storming off, Ant angrily told them all that he would be back. Some hours later, finding a discarded car alternator in the street, Ant threw it through the pub window. The broken glass injured a local musician. Chased through the backstreets of Camden by pub security and others, he drove them away by pulling out an old World War II-era starting pistol, once the property of his father. Returning afterward to the main street, he was spotted by a police patrol, gun still in hand, and arrested as he tried to leave the scene in the back of a minicab

A new version of Adam and the Ants was formed with Marco Pirroni (guitar), Kevin Mooney (bass guitar), and two drummers, Terry Lee Miall and Chris Hughes (ex-Dalek I Love You), who used the name “Merrick”. The band signed a major label deal with CBS Records and recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier during the summer of 1980. The album was an enormous hit in the United Kingdom, and the “Antmania” that ensued put the band at the forefront of the New Romantic movement. The single “Antmusic” went to No. 2 on the UK singles chart by December 1980, but made it to No. 1 in the charts in Australia. Following the abrupt departure of Mooney in February 1981, bassist Gary Tibbs, formerly of Roxy Music, joined the band.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Adam Ant height 5 feet 8 inches Adam weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Born in Marylebone, London, Ant began his musical career playing bass in the band Bazooka Joe. From 1977 to 1982 he performed as Adam and the Ants and their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox (1979) reached number one on the UK Independent Albums Chart. 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. Ant regrouped with new members, including Marco Pirroni to release his second album Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980). It reached number one in the UK Album Chart, spawned three hit singles and the album was 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. 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”.

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. The new band made its debut at London’s Astoria Theatre on 1 October 1982. A US tour began in New York on 8 November. On the 19th tour date on 20 February 1983 in Cleveland, Ohio, Ant suffered a knee injury onstage (a relapse of a previous injury suffered while filming Jubilee in 1977), forcing the postponement and/or cancellation of dates throughout February and March while he recuperated. Ant eventually returned to performing, performing as a guest on the NBC’ show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, joined onstage by Diana Ross. He resumed the US tour, completed on 18 May 1983 at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas, Texas.

Who is Adam Ant Dating?

According to our records, Adam Ant married to Lorraine Gibson , Carol Mills . As of December 1, 2023, Adam Ant’s is not dating anyone.

In November 1981, Adam & the Ants released another highly successful album, Prince Charming. The album featured two United Kingdom No. 1 singles – “Stand and Deliver” and the title track, “Prince Charming” – as well as the No. 3 UK hit “Ant Rap”. This trio of singles was promoted by some of the most lavish music videos of the period and paved the way for Adam Ant’s later acting career. The work schedule Adam Ant imposed upon himself was punishing. “I took no holidays – and I mean no holidays. When Kings of the Wild Frontier took off, I was halfway through making Prince Charming, and so on, because we had to bring out an album and four singles a year. But the price you pay… I split my cartilage in Cleveland doing “Goody Two Shoes”, it was my body saying, ‘Look, no!’ Then I was back onstage doing the Motown 25 [in 1983] show 10 days later, having had the operation. Nobody could have stopped me, or make me do it. I did it. I was very, very bad at pacing,” he later remembered.

Facts & Trivia

Adam Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Adam Ant celebrates birthday on November 3 of every year.

After the split, Ant went solo, taking his songwriting partner Pirroni with him. Merrick also briefly stayed aboard as drummer/producer for the UK edition of the first solo hit single “Goody Two Shoes” (which made it to No. 1 in the UK) and demos for the upcoming Friend or Foe album before moving on to other production work, while Miall and Tibbs’ contracts were left to expire. The “Friend or Foe” album also produced another top ten single, “Friend or Foe”, which reached no.9 in September 1982.

Did Adam Ant pass away?

Celebrated British musician Adam Ant is not dead, despite what you may have read in a “real” news article or seen in Twitter’s trending topics list.

What does Adam Ant do now?

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 …

What was Adam Ant biggest hit?

• 8 Friend Or Foe (1982) …
• 7 Young Parisians (1978) …
• 6 Goody Two Shoes (1982) …
• 5 Dog Eat Dog (1980) …
• 4 Prince Charming (1981) …
• 3 Kings Of The Wild Frontier (1980) …
• 2 Antmusic (1980) …
• 1 Stand and Deliver (1981)

Did Adam Ant date Jamie Lee Curtis?

Curtis has known turbulent times, at one stage developing a cocaine habit which she kicked in 1983. In 1994 her half-brother Nicholas, then 23, died of a drug overdose. During her hazy, bingeing years, she dated the singer Adam Ant and was briefly engaged to the production designer Michael Riva.

Why did Adam and the Ants split up?

Break-up. In early 1982, the band received a BRIT Award for Best Album (Kings of the Wild Frontier) and a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist. In March 1982, feeling certain band members “lacked enthusiasm”, Adam Ant disbanded the group.

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