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  • After reading his autobiography I can only look at his performances with GREAT admiration. I'm looking forward to hearing more news about his upcoming new album, I'm sure he still has some important things to do in music...because now days music needs desperately and seriously an Adam Ant to show world that music IS art! I just can't get enough of watching his concerts, they are so perfect and he is one of a kind! Go Adam, rock the world!!!

  • He's only out of breath because he's actually SINGING and dancing and not lip syncing like most bands these days. He's a great artist with an awesome story to tell and I am excited to be seeing him in Tampa and Orlando in February!!!! Long live Antmusic!!!!

  • if only they let 'm play stand and deliver

    he wouldve killed the crowd i'm sure!

    great performance nontheless

  • ANTMUSIC!

  • Any bar band in the world could come up with this song. Ant's recent trashing of Live Aid is just sour grapes.

  • @ChampippleD Saying any bar band could come up with this song, makes absolutely no sense. Anyone can think of a song. People just like Adam, and the "trashing" of Live Aid was well deserved. If someone cut your slot, to make room for people who already had more songs than everyone wouldn't you get a bit angry?

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  • @JazzTheGoblinQueen (edited).

    Live Aid was not staged to give Adam Ant a career boost, it was to raise money, and Adam Ant was a nobody in North America and a minor act in Europe.

    Zeppelin was easily the worst band of the day, but they drew an audience. Queen and U2 stole the show, NOBODY thinks that their time should have been cut to give Adam Ant a crack at Goodie Two Shoes.

    Griping about air time at a 25 year old charity show is classless and validates Bob Geldof's opinion of Ant.

  • @ChampippleD Why would you even bring Zeppelin up they're a 70's band, and the fact that you don't like them really makes me question your sanity. If you were just going to bitch about Adam, why did you even watch this video? Just to be a troll, and annoy people. Because that is what you have accomplished. Also he was much more than a minor act in Europe, considering he had 2 Gold and 2 Platinum albums there in the UK and he also got 2 Golds in the US.

  • MTV did not air this or any adam ant performance when live aid aired.

  • Yup he was supposed to do 3 songs but got it reduced by someone,i guess Saint Bob who snidily wanted to axe Ant altogether & suck up to time slot hijackers U2 and Queen who demanded more than everyone else & got it(even though Ant was one of the earliest acts approached who agreed to sign up)but his manager Miles Copeland obviously disgusted at such bitchy unprofessional methods made threats & managed to get Ant one song back so they meanly bulldozed his credibility before he even went onstage

  • @wotdoesthisbuttondo That sucks. I still love U2 and Queen, though

  • Did they only do one song that day?

  • @TomFromJersey Yes, he had his time cut short, and wouldn't have played at all if his manager hadn't threatened to pull The Police out if Adam didn't perform.

  • Bob Geldof was skint till live aid.................You do the maths

  • I wasn't at Live Aid but I saw him at the Hammersmith Odeon in 85 on the Vive Le Rock tour. I thought that was a bit late in his career to finally catch him but having watched a clip of his 2011 gigs with the girly backing singers - I am thanking my lucky stars I still saw him in his prime...

  • @TheLilyVe Some of us were not born when he was in his "prime", as you so put it, so we could only caught him in 2011. He was still good though, think about it, he is like 57(ish) and running around a stage! Gotta love him ^^

  • @lifeofafoxbetchi nice to hear this from a "young 'un"!!!

    

  • I have been in love with Adam for over 30 years...(sigh) I guess that I should realize that it is unrequited now, and quit forcing my husband to wear eyeliner, earrings, tight hose, and a military jacket...and to answer only to "Adam"...!!!

  • That ass.

  • was at adams concert at o2 academy glasgow 23 2011 get in there what a concert with the 2 drummers "amazing"

  • o.47 in the air....oh my goood ooooh my goood

  • This was a cool song think he got a bit overexcited and done himself in tho.

  • If there was a poser icelnse it would have ants name on it

  • Adam Ant = talented, amazing, sexy, beautiful man

  • TOP TOP ROCK TUNE.

  • i wanna bite his 8ss!!

  • Adam Ant still rocks fab and still beautiful can't wait to see him in June x x x a fan for 30 years

  • 21 may dundee tickets in hand ooo to be in the eighties again

  • Little did the world know he would turn into a complete maniac

  • Going to see Adam Ant on June 4, 11! Can't wait!!

  • Elvis cross Adam lambert

  • Fantastic. Underrated. Absolutely lovely. A+ Adam & the Ants

  • Then he went mental and started shootin' folks!

  • sex on legs <3

  • Back Fired on him.He was practically cut from the footage .This was his new single and he was the ONLY artist to use Live Aid to promote a single.He flatly refused to sing any old songs and he paid dearly for his prima donna antics.

  • Oh i'd love to sniff him from the waist down after he sweat up a storm in those tight leather pants!

  • I would give away everything I own just to have been there.

  • look ma i'm on top of the world!

  • I got the Live aid box set was worth every penny you wouldnt believe how many legends showed up to play for live aid 1985!! >.<'

    heres a small list of who was there to give you a idea of how epic live aid was in 1985.David Bowie,Sting and Phil Collins,U2,QUEEN!,The Who,Elton John,Tina Turner!,Paul McCartney,Black Sabbath,Bryan Adams,The Beach Boys,Simple Minds,The Pretenders,Madonna,The Cars,Led Zeppelin (Reunion),Duran Duran,B.B. King,Mick Jagger,Lionel Richie. And Lots More!

  • Live Aid - What an event - and I watched it - the whole concert! Great action by Adam here!

  • I enjoyed Adam's little jump skyward with his legs spread near the beginning of the song around (3:45). This man was obviously very athletic when he was young. He was on a bad knee, too, if I remember correctly from his autobiography. Couldn't tell; he hid it well.

  • What a performer, even as a man I can say he just oozed the x factor, the it factor, sex appeal call it what u like.

    No wonder he spent his career humpin so many women, fair play!

  • bang bang you are died......great song :)

  • und er sieht immer noch sooooo gut aus......

  • ...like dem boots....

  • He looks a little like Davis Hassellhoff probably sings just as well

  • Looking damn cool....

  • I would have done anything to have been at Live Aid

  • after this how can some people comment that he and the ants were underrated :-/

  • Great song, great adam, great forever!

  • the rock a billy influece in their work has become so fashionable again. pop was so fickle even back then, at the time of this performance they were considered 'has beens' cruel but true. i think the re performace is excellent so much better than the more popular acts of '85 on live i.e howard bloody jones.... yawn

  • A seriously overlooked Live Aid performance. Everyone goes on about Queen at Wembley that day - yes but Adam and Marco did their bit!

  • Nice guitar from Marco. Adam is a great showman, but perhaps trying to hard...

  • is it just me... or does he look sexy?

  • @theej12354

    when I was a young one back in the 80's I thought he was such a gag! Now looking at him he is damn sexy!

  • @theej12354 oooh definitely sexy drool

  • it isn't just you! He does look super sexy!

    

  • thanks ADAM for all the great tunes and definetly fun times! gotta have the white strip across the nose or u were not in!

  • @iCHIMP1 lol glad i wasnt the only one who had one then.

  • Its a better performance than I remember. They look cool too. But I did feel a tinge of sadness for Adam and The Ants at the time because their time had gone.

  • He was so sexy.

  • Awesome performance!  One of the reasons I became a lead singer.

  • I removed the comment below as I posted twice. By the way, The Quietus interview (in the link I added) is a really insightful, interesting one with Adam posted on 27/4/10.

  • I went "off" Adam for a while in 1984/85 and I haven't actually seen this clip properly (Live Aid was on tv, but as a kid of 13 or so I probably got bored a few acts in and went out).

    His performance, rather than the damp squib I was expecting, is really energetic and razor sharp. The music press documented it as the death of Adam's career.

    What would YOU do if you only had one song to play, the new one (show you're still out there) or an old hit (which smells of has-been)?

  • They lip sync eveyrthing now because it's impossible for them to sing and dance like that. Adam could actually sing his songs and not use a teleprompter.

  • You say Soulja Boy-I say metallica

    You say Miley Cyrus-I say bullet for my valentine

    You say T-Pain-I say Jimi hendrix

    You say Flowers-I say guitars

    You say Pink-I say nirvana

    You say Hip Hop-i say shut the fuck up

    You say Pop-I scream Heavy Metal!!

    92% of teenagers have turned to Hip Hop and Pop.If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music,copy and paste this message to another 5 videos.

    DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF ROCK DIE!!! copy & paste!

  • een beetje buiten adem ma vo de rest zalig!!

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  • this song sounds like two different songs. 1. ELO don't bring me down and 2. wild wild west by the Escape Club

  • got to 3:31....'Look momma I'm on top of the world!.... lol

  • la verdad adam ant despues de live aid , fue el unico que no se vendieron sus cd's mas sin en cambio lo que fue U2 y Queen fueron los que se llevaron las noche o el evento

  • every knows had Adam Ant done his Biggest hits rather than his NEw single..he would have outsold Dire Straits & Status Quo..though Great Performance

  • He was wearing a hair piece at this point....

  • @ritter89 umm........... no........ no he wasnt

  • He´s so damn hot!!

  • sad, hes a shadow of himself now

  • wasn't he told at the last minute before going on to reduce his set to just one song so queen could hog the peak slot of the day and no doubt look oh so good insofar as to "taking the time to play their hits and please the fans" & faced with that he just opted for the current song which he got slated for, i sorta condemned him for that as a kid and felt bad for it after finding that out,did freddie mercury threaten to throw a hissy fit or something if they didn't get more time than other bands?

  • @wotdoesthisbuttondo I don't know, but Freddie was very busy coming on to a lot of the young musicians backstage, according to bono he got cornered by him and could not get over how camp he was, watch "rocking all over the world" brilliant documentary with the artists who performed and some great anecdotes. Adam and the ants were the only band who's album sales didn't increase after the day, shame.

  • Seemed to remember he got panned by the press for playing 'a new song' (at the time) instead of one of his classics, like all the other bands did. Also, only one song? What was the deal there?

  • Yeah, this sounded kind of off, but when you really sing while running around like that, you will sound out of breath. I prefer this to auto tune any day.

  • @luminaire44 I wish I knew how Adam can jump around like that in those pants!

  • nice to watch this one again after all these years. he gave it has all...pretty good performance.

  • great rock guitar sound

  • 1:54 mmmmmmmm yerrrrr. Sexy

  • FANTASTIC!!!!!!

  • je t'adore! Adam is fantastic live. I wish I had been given the opportunity to see him in  concert once

  • Much as I absolutely love Adam and the Ants, from the very beginning, after the Prince Charming/Puss in Boots catastrophe there was no way Adam was ever going to regain any credibility

  • how the hell did this song flop in the charts,,,,,,,,,it had no 1 all over it

  • misunderstood genius,that's why.vive le rock was perfect bubblegum rock.people just wanted to watch queen wankin' off their oul tripe for the sake of charity.sad.

  • Bang Bang Im dead.

  • If he is as energetic on the stage like that, imagine girls what he is like in the BEDROOM !!!!!

  • 2 pumps and a squirt, probably.

  • Sawyerbabe1968, believe me, for a sexy Scorpio, NO ONE needs to guess!

  • I looooove you Adam!!!!

  • Oxbloods ? There not Doc Martens you numpty ,those boots are from BOY . Go to spec savers !

  • jeeeez, this guys hot. + im only 16.

  • At a girl! He's freakin amazing!

  • oxbloods - wow how cool i thought i was

    still would wear m ha

  • I have loved him for over 25 years. Holy crap, I am old! He is still the shit, though.

  • i don`t like this song as much as his others but the dancing is good.

  • u learn something new everyday.....this guy was a BIG influence on Michael Jackson (fashionally). maybe I will get turned on to his music as well

  • His face covered every available inch of my teenage bedroom. HOT!

  • Were you a teenager in heat, like I was?

  • Oh YES! I thought I would pass out when I went to see his "Strip" tour and had 8th row seats. My boyfriend had to hold me up! haha!

  • I hope your boyfriend didn't get jealous!

  • adam ant was created after or during the sex pistols,they all are telented you figure it costted 5000$ to cut nevermind the bulloks...they especially the ants.....are the greatest band....the era was decadent and stunningly,crazy,i myself did not live the punk era im more goth but i started listening to the pistols,also heaven 17 etc..god i love that era,,,peace and flowers traded for pins and black lipstick...

  • ants r post punk .. before u can class alternative .. but brilliant ... I'm too young for the actual London Punk myself but caught Adam +_

  • quality tune but i remember dissing him and shelving the records for plugging a new tune and cancelling a gig in my town the same year, i never knew his set had been cut cos queen wanted longer for some reason though,

  • This is about a billion times better than the dogshit they churn out now.

  • well said simon,,,,,have you seen this weeks top 40 ,its an embassesment to our country,,,,,,

  • Guh!!! What a hot sexy piece o' ass he was,omg,one of my fave performers of all time!!! Adam 4 everrrrrrrrr!!! ^___^

  • I love Adam Ant... But it's sad to see that while everyone else at Live Aid played thier hits he tried to plug new material instead

  • I know.. So much for 'The Global Jukebox'! I never understood why he disregarded this and decided to plug this, vacant, although technically sound tune.

  • He is one of a kind.

  • keep doin it adam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • stunner. mmmm, yummy!

  • Same.

  • I love him so much, he was talented, GORGEOUS, and so energetic, he moves around so much on the stage, i love him!

  • Wow! I'd forgotten just how much I love this guy.

    Thank you x

  • He was terrific here,,,still sexy and beautiful...

  • I never knew he played at Live Aid! His momentum was sort of of over I think? The Antmania?

  • Rockin'!!!!

  • Hmm - I remember thinking that... when I respun the DVDs.

    Who else commandeered all the kit in the lounge - ensure that no bugger detuned the radio from R2 for the simulcast?

  • He is so charismatic.

  • Says the person with a name like Barcode! LMAO!

  • @Barcode1966 Do you actually know what charismatic means? You may not like the music but if you've ever seen him interviewed then you'd know it's a fact!

  • @MisAnnThorpe No I don't know what it means please enlighten me oh wise one.

    This has-been is a border line basket case and desperately low on talent and only a twat would take him seriously.

  • @Barcode1966 I was initially inclined to dismiss your reply as an attempt at sarcasm but on reconsideration have decided to accept your apparent ignorance at face value. So for your benefit; to be charismatic is to possess charm or a special quality that endears one to others. Something you evidently lack! Btw, being "a borderline basket case" isn't necessarily an impediment to talent. Would you be so good as to tell me who in your most esteemed opinion constitutes a major talent? I'm intrigued!

  • @MisAnnThorpe Whoa there, I have just realized that I have been sucked into an argument with an Adam Ant fan. Time to get back to reality me thinks, now run along and bother someone else you silly little girl.

  • @Barcode1966 Sorry old chap, but you've got my gender wrong. Have another look at my name and see if you can work it out! I seriously doubt it though. But seriously, I am curious to know which artists over the last 30 odd years, you consider talented. New Order perhaps? Howard Jones? Will Young? Am I getting any closer? What a gavin!

  • @Barcode1966 Btw, are you aware that in Japan, the word barcode is used to describe men who adopt the comb over so favoured by vain old bald men who've never reconciled themselves to the fact that their hirsute days are long gone! Does this ring any bells?!

  • This performance is exactly what you should expect to see at any live concert: high energy, happiness, audience participation. Great, Adam.

  • He's cute, handsome and can sing.

    But his best performance is in the clips.

    And jummie his tight pants... makes it all more revealing :P

  • I like Adam's music a lot but this performance really sucks.

  • Oh god how gorgeous was Adam! What an absolute honey, and he could sing too! I loved his music/band, they were so cool!

    The 80's...please take me back!

  • Adam oh Adam. Sex on legs!

  • You mean sex in leggings!

  • He was sex from head to toe!

  • He was addicted to that... Read his autobiography. :)

  • I have his autobiography, and I have to admit that I was "shocked"!

    In one of his interviews, he said that he slept with under 1,000 women!

  • if it was in 1 day - THAT would be impressive!

  • LeoFernando1980, OUCH! If that was possible, Adam would need to take breaks!

  • @LisaKoffler7 whatcha mean  "was" ???

  • His name is Marco Pirroni, and personally, to me, apart from Dirk Wears White Sox, Marco was essential to Adam's sound and songwriting.

  • he was out of breath,but he was still jumping...he didnt stop!!!great man...luv him!!hes sexy! =;)

  • Is that a young Billy Crystal on speed?? Lol...

  • hes hot!

  • well I'd be out of breath to if I was jumping around like that.he was young enough here but it's still taxing for anyone past the age of 10.I've watched performers run out of breathe just by stepping onto the stage.=)

  • damn i wish i could move like that!

  • Damn! He used to be so gorgeous!!!

  • He still is!

  • awesome clip! awesome tune! full of energy, great live vocal,crackin drums,pumpin bass and probably the best fuck off guitar sound ever!

  • hell yea thats wat he was all a bout

  • Lol at first I was like wtf...

    he's crying because his pants are too tight XD

  • I thought he was crying because he had sex the night before!

  • i was a big fan years ago & i am in the middle of reading his autobiography & he says he was really upset not being asked to sing on the live aid single,understandable considering he was one of the biggest acts of the early 80's. personally i think he could have picked a better song to do at live aid.

  • I agree.

    I think they could've done Antmusic or even Goody Two Shoes as well.

  • What a great performer Adam is. I have followed him for years and he really gives 100%.

    His act is hard to follow. What a special guy. No drugs, or booze. Just a simple love of performing and it shows. GO ADAM!

  • No drugs or booze?  You should look into his story a little more...

  • Sorry, but maybe you should too as Adam was always teetotal and anti-drugs.

  • wat is teetotal

  • It means he didn't drink any alcohol.

  • The "the world is watching...let's feed it" bit was cut out of the dvd :(

  • A lost 80's icon!!!

  • He's a legend. His guitar player sort of looks like Sean Hannity ... LOL.

  • not the same as stand and deliver anyway

  • I wish I was the reason for him being out of breath....Good lord, that man just ooosesss sex!

  • He's a Scorpio!

  • Adam ant is in my top 10 musicians and is the BEST performer ever.