His parents, Leslie Goddard father and Betty Kathleen Smith mother divorced when he was seven years old. Later his mom supported him by working as a domestic cleaner. Goddard then attended Barrow Hill Junior School where he was a member of the cricket team and he passed the eleven plus exam. After that, he gained a place in St. Marylebone Grammer school which was an all-boys school where he enjoyed history lessons, played rugby and later became a school prefect.
Goddard then attended Hornsey College of Art to study graphic design. To focus more on his music career, Goddard then dropped out of Hornsey after the completion of his BA.
After deciding to continue with music, Adam formed a new band called The Ants which was later named Adam and the Ants. This punk group band came into limelight when they released their album, Kings of the Wild Frontier in In , the band had surprising seven singles which included Stand and Deliver. After such a craze among its fans, Adam became the face of New Wave music. This particular band started doing tours and spread their music all around the globe. France is accused of 'ceding territory to people smugglers' after migrants cross the Channel in one day Toddler is killed in zebra crossing 'hit-and-run' horror outside primary school: Man, 24, is arrested on Tories at war in five-hour cabinet showdown: Boris Johnson and his top team thrash out differences late into The tories-on-the-take club: Cash and freebies galore for MPs leading controversial Commons committee Mishandling of the response to Great-great-grandson of Viscount Astor, 19, who is distant relation of Samantha Cameron, spat vomit at What a corking discovery!
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After the band's break-up in he enjoyed solo success before a long period out of the limelight. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Already subscribed? Log in. Bunch of fucking stooges. And then Nicky Campbell or whoever he is played about 15 seconds of my record.
I went fucking nuts. His voice, still Bromley to the core despite a decade in California he recently moved back to London , carries, and people glance over, wondering who the flamboyant middle-aged gent is. There was a time when everyone under 30 would have recognised him, the most theatrical star of the camp early s, but 20 years on he's essentially anonymous. Or he would be if not for his still-unique dress sense. Even in this celebrity hangout, Ant's outfit stands out is it the blue sunglasses?
After all, it was he who sang on 's Prince Charming: "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. It seems a sorry pass to have come to, a year-old Ant reliving his glamorous youth on one of the increasingly popular s tours, but he testily differs. The best dressed, suited and booted, verse-chorus-verse-chorus period since Abba. His own contribution to that period was considerable. Born Stuart Goddard in south London, he was midway through art school in the late s when he dreamed up a fantasy character called Adam Ant.
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. But Adam was prettier than most punks, and wrote catchier songs; in , he became the first teen idol of that decade. By then he was dressing as a pirate, and his native American and highwayman phases weren't far off. Ludicrous it may seem from this remove, but at the time his penchant for fancy dress and constant reinvention was daring, as was the hypnotic African-inspired drumming, dubbed "Burundi beat", on his records.
He was also one of the first artists to grasp the importance of video. At one point, with 15 hits in three years, he was so famous that fans known as Antpeople after his slogan "Antmusic for sexpeople, sexmusic for Antpeople" besieged his houses in London and Hertfordshire. I've been told I sold m albums and singles.
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