45 Facts About Adam Ant

Adam Ant 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.

Adam Ant has worked as an actor, appearing in many films and television episodes.

Adam Ant regrouped with new members, including Marco Pirroni, to release his second album Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Adam Ant released his third and final album with the group, Prince Charming, which spawned two UK number-one singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming".

Adam Ant began to focus on an acting career, performing on stage and in film and television roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Adam Ant signed with Capitol Records to release Wonderful.

Since 2010, Ant has continued his music career, recording and releasing a new album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter, and completing eight full-length UK national tours, five US national tours, and two Australian tours.

Adam Ant's father had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur, and his mother was an embroiderer for Norman Hartnell.

Adam Ant's home was two rooms in the De Walden buildings, St John's Wood.

Adam Ant's parents divorced when Goddard was seven years old and his mother supported him by working as a domestic cleaner, being briefly employed by Paul McCartney.

Adam Ant dropped out of Hornsey, short of completing his BA, to focus on a career in music.

Adam Ant formed his own band, the B-Sides, with Lester Square and Andy Warren.

Adam Ant approached Malcolm McLaren and asked him to manage the band.

In March 1982, feeling certain band members "lacked enthusiasm" Adam Ant disbanded the group.

Adam Ant recruited a new band for touring, consisting of new dual drummers Bogdan Wiczling and Barry Watts, plus guitarist Cha Burns, bassist Chris Constantinou and the former Q-Tips brass section of trumpeter Tony Hughes and twin saxophonists Stewart van Blandamer and Steve Farr.

Adam Ant eventually returned to performing, performing as a guest on the NBC' show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, joined onstage by Diana Ross.

Adam Ant resumed the US tour, completed on 18 May 1983 at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas, Texas.

Adam Ant formally unveiled his new four-piece band at the 1984 Montreux Pop Festival,.

Adam Ant paused his career in music at the end of 1985 to focus on his acting career.

Adam Ant played three shows at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London and did a mini tour of Virgin Record Shops playing selected tunes from the album Wonderful and signing records.

In 2001, following the 11 September attacks, Adam Ant recorded a charity single for New York firefighters; a double A-side of Neil Diamond's "America" with his own song "Big Trouble".

On 4 March 2010, Adam Ant registered his new label Blue Black Hussar Ltd.

Adam Ant 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, and a guest spot at the Monster Raving Loony Party's annual conference in Fleet, Hampshire, on 25 September.

That same day, Adam Ant held a press conference and media preview gig at Under The Bridge in Chelsea at which he formally unveiled plans for an eleven date UK concert tour due to run from 16 May to 4 June 2011.

Adam Ant completed the schedule of tour dates which were overwhelmingly enthusiastically received.

Adam Ant announced a follow-up UK tour, initially scheduled to run for twelve dates from 11 November 2011 in Bristol until 13 December 2011 in Newcastle.

Subsequently, for the second year running, Adam Ant was scheduled to make appearances on the summer festival circuit, interspersed with various one-off dates around the UK.

Adam Ant played the first full band concert in continental Europe of his 2010s comeback on 24 June 2012 at the Parkpop festival in the Zuiderpark in the Hague, Netherlands, with his set broadcast on Dutch national TV.

Adam Ant expressed interest in working with The Kaiser Chiefs.

On 31 December 2010, Adam Ant gave an interview for The Sun in which he discussed in considerable detail the various controversies surrounding his recent life and musical activities.

Adam Ant had previously discussed both of these songs in his April 2010 interview with Simon Price for online fanzine The Quietus.

Adam Ant reissued the Dirk album on white vinyl on his Blueblack Hussar label, with a launch party gig at the 100 CLub.

Adam 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.

Adam Ant toured the UK in 2016 and North America in early 2017, performing his Kings of the Wild Frontier album in its entirety.

Adam Ant announced the Friend or Foe tour, which traveled North America and the United Kingdom from September to December 2019.

Adam Ant performed the album in its entirety in an 18-date tour in North America before returning to the United Kingdom for 26 shows.

In 2023, a US show was announced: Adam Ant will be one of the headliners at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California on May 20.

Adam Ant's acting career began in 1977 when he appeared in Jubilee.

Adam Ant has worked in theatre: he starred in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane and appeared in Funeral Games.

Adam Ant dated Amanda Donohoe between 1977 and 1981, Jamie Lee Curtis in 1983 and Heather Graham in the early 1990s.

Adam Ant featured a song about Vanity of Vanity 6, the female vocal group associated with Prince, on the Strip album.

In 1997, Adam Ant married Lorraine Gibson, a 25-year-old PR assistant for Vivienne Westwood.

Adam Ant has spoken candidly about his mental health issues and experiences with the effects of the illness.

In June 2003, it was reported that Adam Ant had been arrested again on suspicion of criminal damage, before it was decided that he should be hospitalised for treatment.

On 18 May 2010, Adam Ant was returned to psychiatric hospital, where he remained until mid-June, subsequently returning home under outpatient supervision.