Coming up the story of a very unique rockstar. Adam Ant... First of all his mother was Paul McCartney’s Housekeeper and he in turn got to walk Paul’s Dog and even snuck into his music room. later he and his band Adam and the Ants had 7 songs in the top 40 at the same time. Then in 1983, he was voted “World’s Sexiest Man” in the MTV viewer’s poll. His odd image was envied by many, including the King of Pop, while his music dominated the New Wave landscape of the 80s taking him to the top of the charts and the face of early MTV… Today we break down his career including his MTV new wave classic Good Two Shoes. There were dark times.. After a maniacal episode in 2003...he was found by police- curled up in a ball & sobbing in the basement of a North London cafe. It’s the story of a post punk icon, and his breakout solo smash Goody Two Shoes that was confused by some as a critique on righteous living but was actually a manifesto about exploitative journalism is 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 a 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 what 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 years old, Stuart used to help his Mum by walking Paul’s sheepdog, 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.