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Adam Ant

February 2023

  • A scene from Derek Jarman's Jubilee, 1978

    From the Guardian archive
    Derek Jarman’s Jubilee reviewed – archive, 1978

    23 February 1978: Britain’s first film to reflect the punk era possesses a fevered and restless imagination – and the images and music to go with it

December 2022

  • Vivienne Westwood, 1999.

    Vivienne Westwood: her life and career – in pictures

    A look at the famous fashion designer’s greatest moments after her death at the age of 81

February 2021

  • ‘I tied my colours to their mast in a way I never had with any artist before, and never would again’ ... Adam and the Ants.

    The fandom that made me
    Adam and the Ants: how the wild tribe revealed pop's theatre of dreams

    In our series on musicians with a formative influence on our writers, Alexis Petridis on his relationship with the band for whom ridicule was nothing to be scared of

November 2020

  • Adam and the Ants on American Bandstand, 1981.

    From the Guardian archive
    Adam and the Ants live at the Lyceum - archive, 1980

    25 November 1980 The band produce an exciting, physical sound but Adam is so lost in his Hollywood fantasies that his performance becomes risible

October 2020

  • 10 Jan 1982 The Ant Phenomenon - Adam and the Ants

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: Adam Ant stands and delivers, 1982

    The pirate/highwayman/pop star took four hours preparing for his photograph. By Chris Hall

March 2020

  • (L-R) Mr Blobby, Avril Lavigne and Paul McCartney.

    'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us

    As Pete Paphides publishes a memoir of his life in pop, our writers reflect on the childhood musical loves that made them

June 2019

  • Adam Ant

    Adult learner
    I tried to see the fun in fancy dress parties – all I felt was pain and panic

    Real friends won’t leave you out in the cold for turning down an invitation

December 2018

  • Nick Rutter; Ronan Park; Allstar/Artina Films; David Emeney/© Bristol Culture

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome LP session

    Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures

October 2018

  • (L-R) George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Troye Sivan

    Back in bloom: how queer male pop reclaimed its star status

  • Adam Ant at home.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Adam Ant, 9 October 1984

December 2016

  • Thandie Newton, Patti Smith, Nicola Adams, Elton John, Lauren Laverne and Woody Allen.

    The G2 interview
    What George Clooney, Lupita Nyong’o, Elton John and Eddie the Eagle taught us in 2016

    George Clooney called Donald Trump a fascist, Lupita Nyong’o took on Hollywood racism, Elton John discussed money and Eddie the Eagle admitted he skied like an ostrich – what we learned in a year of Guardian interviews

June 2016

  • A defiant original … Adam Ant.

    Adam Ant review – still a king of the wild frontier

    Ant might no longer be the lithe, dandy highwayman of his early years, but he continues to strikes a defiant pop-star pose

May 2016

  • King of the wild frontier: Adam Ant

    The G2 interview
    ‘Heroic, sexy and a warrior bravado’: how Adam and the Ants redefined pop

    They were a riot of makeup, feathers, tribal drums and surf guitars – and, for a brief, spectacular moment, they became the biggest band in the UK. Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni tell the story of their breakthrough

December 2015

  • The Human League in 1981

    Music blog
    Forget 1966, because 1981 was pop's year of revolution

    While Jon Savage has been hailing the mid-60s, there’s a case to be made that we’re about to mark the 35th anniversary of pop’s greatest year

July 2015

  • (L to R) Bono of U2, Paul McCartney, and Freddie Mercury perform in the finale of the Live Aid concert at Wembley stadium in 1985.

    How Live Aid reinvented pop music

    Creation of mega-rock event handed flagging bands a stage for their revival and lucrative TV audiences that are still being wooed today

April 2015

  • That's me: Justin Semmens

    That's me in the picture
    That’s me in the picture: Justin Semmens at an Adam And The Ants gig at the Marquee Club, London, 1977

    ‘Someone asked whether it was children’s night, but the truth is no one bothered to check your age back then’

April 2014

  • Adam Ant

    Adam Ant review – 'The years simply fall away'

    Playing with the original Ants drummer and bassist for the first time since 1979, Adam Ant was every inch the peerless pop star, writes Betty Clarke

December 2013

  • Treasure chest

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about smuggling and stealing – results

    Pickpockets to highwaymen, bank heists to drug smuggling, the readers' collective Robin Hood act has made a treasure chest, says Peter Kimpton

September 2013

  • Adam Ant

    The Blueblack Hussar – review

    Adam Ant has lost the warpaint but this intriguing documentary finds his dandyish, swashbuckling nature intact, writes Mike McCahill
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