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Since 2010, Ant has continued his music career, recording and releasing a new album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (2013, UK number 25), and completing eight full-length UK national tours, five US national tours, and two Australian tours.
After this came a band called The B-Sides. He gained popularity as the lead singer of post-punk group Adam And The Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three No. 1s.
He was thrown in at the deep end as within two months of joining the band they had recorded their second BBC Peel session (Zerox, Friends, You’re So Physical & Cleoptra) and had signed to Decca Records for a one year deal.
In 1982, Ant went solo, later giving the reason that the band was ‘exhausted’. He found immediate international success with his first two solo albums. Several singles, including"Goody Two ...
Ant and his regular band subsequently performed the album for four nights at Islington Assembly Hall in November 2014 and on a full UK tour in Spring 2015. The Dirk-performance section, and other portions of the Hammersmith concert, were released on DVD in 2015 as Dirk Live At The Apollo. [47]
The title track of his second studio album, Trespassing, was co-written with Pharrell Williams; while the album's lead single, "Better Than I Know Myself", a collaboration with Dr. Luke and Claude Kelly, was released digitally on December 20, 2011.
Feb 8, 2016 · Black Sabbath’s keyboard player and back-up guitarist on their final world tour is Adam Wakeman, the son of legendary prog organ wizard Rick, who himself guest-starred on a few Sabbath tunes in 1973. “With my dad playing on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath it’s quite interesting,” enthuses Adam.
