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From hlcarpenter.com 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

Published: 25 Nov 2020

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

Published: 25 Oct 2020

'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

Published: 5 Mar 2020

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

Published: 7 Jun 2019

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

The 80s put the gay man front and centre of pop. Then came the Aids crisis – and three decades of demonisation, discord and displacement. Now, with Troye Sivan leading a new wave of gay stars, has change truly arrived?

Published: 31 Oct 2018
Observer picture archive Observer picture archive: Adam Ant, 9 October 1984

The singer was photographed by Tim Mercer, who regularly captured the great and the good for the Observer magazine’s long-running feature, A Room of My Own.

Published: 6 Oct 2018

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

Published: 19 Dec 2016

4 out of 5 stars.

Adam Ant review – still a king of the wild frontier
4 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 12 Jun 2016

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

Published: 26 May 2016

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

Published: 17 Dec 2015

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

Published: 13 Jul 2015

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’

Published: 3 Apr 2015

4 out of 5 stars.

Adam Ant review – 'The years simply fall away'
4 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 20 Apr 2014

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

Published: 19 Dec 2013

Vivienne Westwood: Her life and career so far - in pictures

Actor and biographer Ian Kelly has been working with Vivienne Westwood on a version of her life to be published next year. An excuse, if any were needed, for a gallery of her life and times so far

Gallery

Published: 30 Nov 2013

3 out of 5 stars.

The Blueblack Hussar – review
3 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 12 Sep 2013

Adam Ant – review
3 out of 5 stars.

Adam Ant wasn't in the mood to play the dandy highwayman - more the meditative survivor, writes Caroline Sullivan

Published: 12 May 2013

Adam Ant: Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter – review
2 out of 5 stars.

Unfocused it may be, but Adam Ant's new album is far from dull, writes Phil Mongredien

Published: 19 Jan 2013

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