Adam & The Ants

Adam Ant: Metamorphosis of a Narc

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, July 1985

"I DON'T THINK I'm an intelligent person. But I think I have a common sense that allows me to have an instinct about what people ...

Whip In My Valise: Adam and the Ants

Comment by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, December 1977

The angel Gabriel sent me to give you a little bit of sympathy...('Plastic Surgery') ...

Adam & The Ants: Marquee Club, London

Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, February 1978

Termites devour part of New Wave ...

X-Ray Spex, Adam & The Ants, The Automatics: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, May 1978

AS MS. POLY'S strychnine air-raid voice shreds the encore and all present, the audience front-line snaps. ...

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial); Adam & The Ants: Dirk Wears White Socks (Do It)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, December 1979

ADAM AND The Ants and Throbbing Gristle are shadowy extremes, lurking in dark corners, lethargically scratching through their overscrubbed private parts, grinning sweetly at anyone ...

Adam Ant: Sound and Vision

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Face, The, April 1981

"Malcolm McLaren just said to me, "What do you want, Adam?" I said, "I'd like to be a household name, and have everyone know and ...

Adam Ant: The Song Of Injun Adam

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, June 1981

Or: What's A Picnic Without Ants? ...

Adam's Xmas Antomime

Live Review by Penny Reel, NME, January 1982

Adam & The Ants: Theatre Royal, London ...

Malcolm McLaren: Innovation Or Exploitation?

Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1982

Malcolm McLaren, the shaker and baker of British punk, turned the Sex Pistols into an epochal event, turned Adam Ant around and now plays Svengali ...

Eleganza: The Best-Dressed List

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, September 1983

THERE ARE absolutes in fashion. For instance, flare-legged trousers are absolutely more flattering to the vast majority of people than straight-legged trousers, since they make ...

Adam Ant: from Punk Reject to Prince Charming

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 1984

AS THE '70S DREW TO A CLOSE, the British pop scene seemed distinctively lacking in glamour. Punk rock had made way for a ‘new wave’ ...

Adam Ant: Sex Person Without A Cause

Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, May 1984

ADAM ANT materialized in the lobby of a West Hollywood hotel that employs a lot of very stupid Englishwomen and offered me his hand. ...

Adam And The Ants: Where Are They Now?

Profile by Martin Aston, Q, September 1992

"DON'T WORRY – HE'LL soon be a hairdresser in North Finchley." So it was that, with Malcolm McLaren's unprophetic words as encouragement, the original Ants ...

Adam Ant

Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 2000

THE POOR BOY looked at Paul McCartney. "I saw him through a crack in the door, going up the stairs chatting with my mum," says ...

Adam And The Ants: Stand And Deliver

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2000

TRIPLE-CD box set honours Prince Charming man. ...

Adam Ant: Adam And The Fall

Interview by Paul Lester, Daily Telegraph, April 2005

STUART GODDARD is one of the most gifted – and most troubled – pop stars this country has ever produced. ...

Stand And Deliver by Adam Ant (Sidgwick & Jackson)

Book Review by Bob Stanley, Times, The, September 2006

STUART GODDARD attempted suicide, aged 21, in 1975. He woke up in Friern Barnet hospital and discharged himself. When he got home to his wife ...