![]() ![]() One day she broke in and left voodoo dolls complete with pins attached all around his abode. An obsessive fan, Maria Torres, became attracted to him and began stalking him to the point of dancing naked outside his apartment whilst screaming obscenities at him. Still in Hollywood, his worse nightmare came true. “It’ll come out one day,” said stated, “It’ll be my undiscovered masterpiece.” In 1992 he decided to make a musical comeback and recorded the album Persuasion which, when he delivered it to MCA records, weren’t too keen and refused to release it despite the facts that it featured Cameo’s Larry Blackmon and Chic’s Bernard Edwards. He also made numerous appearances on TV in Northern Exposure and The Equalizer and then the TV series Batman: The Animated Series (1995). His good looks helped him fall into an acting career where he appeared more than 15 films including Cold Steel (1987), World Gone Wild (1988), Trust Me (1989) and Sunset Heat (1992). He had two further top 10 hits with Friend or Foe and Puss ‘N Boots and then he fell out of favour with Strip peaking at number 41 and Viva Le Rock at 50. The band split in 1982 and Adam launched a solo career kicking off with the number one hit Goody Two Shoes, which was so sudden that a limited number of copies were credited to Adam & The Ants. They wrote about us and bang, all of a sudden we did Top of the Pops with Dog Eat Dog and the next week we sold 200,000 records.” We were not a product of the NME and Sounds, but actually The Sun and The Mirror. “Malcolm claimed he invented everybody but it was me who came up with the Ant look and Marco and me who came up with the music. In 1980 Malcolm McLaren took the band under his wing and then claimed he made them. The story of Adam and his Ants’ early days is fairly well documented of how they struggled to be accepted for a few years and then, all of a sudden he was famous, but not thanks to any help from the music press. ![]() It must be a daunting task once you’ve contemplated making the comeback wondering if it’s going to work or not. So many artists over the years have made very successful comebacks and other haven’t been so fortunate. ![]()
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