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...via Joe Holweger's bass guitar as they play the top of Cochrane Theatre, a few yards from where the Sex Pistols supported Bazooka Joe in Nov 1975.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Naomi Gibbs who passed away recently - costumier/creator of the jacket Adam is wearing in this clip.
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#OTD 2017:
Back in the UK following the US leg of the Kings of the Wild Frontier celebratory tour, Adam Ant is the live music guest of short-lived 'The Nightly Show' #OnThisDay 10/3/2017.
Hosted by the week's guest presenter John Bishop, we see the band pay tribute to Tom "Tommy x" Edwards...
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Another Ant landmark gone as the Edinburgh building formerly known as Clouds bites the dust 🏗️🚧😔
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/iconic-...
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Now, I have to ask...! 🧐😛
Happy Birthday to übertalented Chris Merrick Hughes - Adam & the Ants drummer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and splendid chap - 7️⃣2️⃣ years young today! 🎂🥳
📽️: Here he is giving Marco a run for his money on an acoustic guitar for Prince Charming from the Prince Charming Revue Dec 1981! 🐜🎶
🚨 ANT NEWS 🚨
MARCO PIRRONI will be making a personal appearance in conversation at Rebellion Festival Blackpool on the Friday as part of the Literary Festival to promote his forthcoming memoir 'Your Money or Your Life'.
The event is SOLD OUT but stay tuned for more PA's TBA throughout the year...
Shame this photo has been AI sloppified. Very inspiring.
...keen to stress he's up for the challenge without relying on the same old formula.
This afternoon he'll be joining Marco Pirroni and Chris Merrick Hughes at Jimmy Page's Sol studios in his cousin's manor of Cookham, Berkshire to begin on Goody Two Shoes.
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#OTD 1982:
Pinch, punch, it's first of the month and Adam Ant is back in England to record the forthcoming single but first he's got a date with Australia's Molly Meldrum for Countdown #OnThisDay 1/3/1982.
The pressure's on to maintain momentum on the previous year's success, and Adam's...
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*Archive note: Apologies the article is a bit chopped up - if you have a more complete version (or would like to donate articles/clips for future OTDs) please get in contact, thanks! ❤️
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...all the time."
Dispatched to Barbados for an enforced seclusion by a concerned Don Murfet, Adam isn't in the country to collect his Best Group and Outstanding Music Personality awards tonight, so Ants Chris Merrick Hughes & Gary Tibbs will be at the Lyceum event instead.
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Adam's been keeping a low profile since the Prince Charming Revue, and there's more tell-tale signs that there's chinks in his otherwise shiny armour:
"The idea of being an idol is quite honestly very scary. You are no longer a human being [...] you exist only to provide entertainment...
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POP'S PRINCE CHARMING: THIS IS MY LIFE by ADAM ANT
#OTD 1982:
Rock & Pop Awards 1981: British tabloid Daily Mirror publishes a double page spread dedicated to Adam Ant's life so far - in his own words #OnThisDay 23/2/1982.
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...surgery (avoiding return to the UK and the HMRC), and with a prestigious Motown 25th anniversary performance coming up next month, the race is on to get match fit again.
📽️: Warriors IV (pre-register for membership via adamandtheants.org for news on how to obtain)
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"Keeping his pain inside, no one guessed the extent of the damage" ~ 16 magazine
"F**k, f**k, s**t, f**k... my knee... F**k off..." ~ Adam Ant
The tour is postponed, Adam is flown to LA for...
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#OTD 1983:
Calamity! Returning to Cleveland for the 19th gig of the 2nd leg of the US Friend or Foe tour, Adam Ant hobbles away from Ohio as he tears a knee cartilage on stage at the Cleveland Music Hall #OnThisDay 21/2/1983.
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Ok it's taken 4 attempts over 2 hours to get this video up... @bsky.app sort your shizzle out or we ain't gonna be friends 😒
...music programme screening contemporary pop videos, and would run for the rest of the 1980s.
Meanwhile back in PA, local gig reviewer James H. deLorenzo asks: "Why do so many teenage girls go crazy over this guy?"
Perhaps this above clip provides some insight 😉
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#OTD 1984:
The Strip Tour '84 continues in Philadelphia PA tonight for over 4,000 AmericAnts, but 4,000 miles east ARD is screening Adam Ant's performance of his latest Billboard Hot 100 hit on 'Formel Eins' #OnThisDay 20/2/1984.
Presented by Peter Illmann, the show is West Germany's only...
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Adam Ant - From S&M to M&S...
🚨 🇺🇸 ADAM ANT LIVE US DATES NEWS 🇺🇸 🚨
Confirmed 2026 dates so far:
Hollywood Bowl - supporting Squeeze, with The Beat on Sat 19th Sept.
Bourbon and Beyond festival in Louisville Kentucky on Sat 26th Sept.
Tickets /passes available now from event websites (links in comments) - yee haw!
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...the kids who make music now grew up with us [...] and that's gratifying 'cos the credit's been pretty lean at times. We were - and are - a f---ing great band. End of story."
📸: Martyn Goodacre (some of our favourite Ant/Marco pix, so chucked in a few extras from the session ❤️)
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Nestled amongst pages filled with the likes of Suede, Sleeper and a curiously placed Elastica advert, Adam "The Swearer's Swearer" & Marco "Portly creative cohort (?!)" hold court in Camden claiming their rightful place as the granddaddies of Britpop.
"We're finally getting some credit, 'cos..
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#OTD 1995: "THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE CHARMING"
Wonderful has limped in to the lower 30s of the UK singles chart, so Adam Ant's bolstered the promo campaign by bringing in Marco Pirroni for a chinwag with NME's Sylvia Patterson, published 11/2/1995.
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Sir Marco of Pirroni talks about Adam & the Ants getting onto #TOTP with Miranda Sawyer at the British Library this evening (5/2/26)...
📽️ British Library
