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6,347Coming up, the story of the nearly forgotten rockstar Adam Ant… He should be remembered more than he is… He started out destined for the top of the charts… His mother was Paul McCartney’s housekeeper, so he ended up walking McCartney’s Dog and later got the guts to sneak into his music room. Later, he formed a band, and they actually had 7 songs in the top 40 charts at the same time… He got so big he was voted World’s Sexiest Man in an MTV poll, which may have been the strangest choice, as he beat out everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran. But it was his odd style and persona that won over everyone and influenced the biggest stars of the time, including the King of Pop. Adam Ant's music dominated the new romantic new wave landscape of early MTV. He really was the face of early MTV with Goody Two Shoes that many confused as a critique of righteous living. But as you’ll find out today, it was actually about him in a way. And later, we’d find out that he made his bandmates sign an agreement they wouldn’t drink or smoke! It’s a story that has rarely been told. Next on Professor of Rock.
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In November 1975, a budding, 19-year-old musician named Stuart Goddard saw the Sex Pistols perform their first public concert at the St. Martin’s College of Art in London. It was the spell-binding, watershed experience that compelled Goddard to forge a new path to achieve his own fame & notoriety. The ground-breaking performance of the Sex Pistols inspired Goddard to change his name and assemble a new band that captured the audacious moxie that he had just witnessed.
It led to the invention of Adam Ant and the formation of Adam & the Ants in 1977. Adam Ant was an only child who grew up in an impoverished area of post-war London. He was raised in an anguishing environment of domestic violence. His parents took out their unhappiness on each other. There were constant arguments between his mother & father that often escalated to physical altercations- something no child should have to endure.
But there were some cool, formative moments, particularly around his mother, Betty Kathleen Smith. For a time, Betty was a housekeeper for Paul McCartney…. How crazy is that? When he was just 10, Stuart used to help his Mum by walking Paul’s sheepdog, and couldn’t resist sneaking into Paul’s private music room.
After high school, Stuart enrolled in art college in the North End of London, and perhaps because of the loveless. turbulent environment that plagued his childhood, he rushed into a relationship, and married Carol Mills when he was only 21 and moved in with her parents. Stuart struggled emotionally. He felt suffocated in suburban married life, feeling that it was holding him back from chasing his dream of a prolific career in music. His despair came to a head when Stuart swallowed a bunch of pills from his mother-in-law’s medicine cabinet. He would later state that he didn’t think it was a suicide attempt; it was more of a…