Chicago Hip Hop

Good quality video recorded live from Top Of The Pops 1982. Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard on 3 November 1954 in Marylebone, London) is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of New Wave/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring ten UK top ten hits between 1980 and 1983, including three No.1s. Ant was also a star in America where he not only scored a string of hit singles and albums, but was once voted sexiest man in America by the viewers of MTV. He is also an actor, having appeared in over two dozen films or television episodes between 1985 and 2003. After the split with The Ants,Ant went solo, taking his song writing partner Pirroni with him. His greatest American chart success was 1982’s Friend or Foe album, which included the hit single “Goody Two Shoes” which made it to #1 in the UK and Australia, and #12 in the US Other hits from that album included the title song (which made #9 on the UK chart) and “Desperate But Not Serious”. “Goody Two Shoes” first charted in the UK in Spring 1982, reaching no.1 that summer, but its US peak did not come until 1983 when it reached #12 on the Billboard Top 100. Around this time, Ant also received an endorsement contract from Honda to promote their new line of motor scooters, where he appeared with model and fellow alternative musician Grace Jones. In the commercial, Ant is being persuaded by Jones to try the new scooter. Ant, who had never driven anything in his life, finally …
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