Adam Ant

Adam Ant is, for me, the perfect embodiment of how new wave fused sound and spectacle. Stuart Goddard, art-school trained, understood that pop in the early eighties was as much about the eye as the ear, and his pirate-dandy look proved it. Ten UK top ten hits and three number ones in just a few years is no fluke; that is a man who knew exactly what audiences wanted before they did. I appreciate artists who treat image as a craft rather than a costume, and he committed totally. He also kept acting along the way, which tells you he saw performance as one continuous art.

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Name (English)

Adam Ant

Name (Japanese)

アダム・アント

Reading

あだむ・あんと

Born

November 3, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

Marylebone, United Kingdom

Occupation

guitarist / actor / singer / film actor / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

University

Hornsey College of Art

• Official sitehttps://www.adam-ant.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/AdamAOfficial
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Ant
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348658

Tags

• guitarist
• actor
• singer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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