"Don't drink, Don't smoke, What do you do?" Rocker wanders around mansion, freaking out butlers, maids, cooks and anyone else who crosses his path with a series of goofy antics. The guy is wearing a ridiculous costume and decked out in war paint, making him look like a cross between some bargain-basement buccaneer and Chief Dan George's bastard son from Little Big Man. By the end of the video, he manages to persuade a female reporter to let her hair down and become a total slut. Fade out.

Adam Ant (real name: Stuart Leslie Goddard) was a punk rocker without any edge, a diluted caricature of a rock 'n' roll rebel - perfectly adaptable for mainstream success during the early years of MTV. "Adam Ant was the campiest figurehead of the New Romantic moment that also enlisted Bow Wow Wow and Duran Duran," according to The Rolling Stone Album Guide. By the way, the female reporter was played by actress and model Caroline Munro, who appeared as a corpse in the cult classic The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), which starred Vincent Price. You also can view her work in Maniac (1980) and Slaughter High (1986).

"Goody Two Shoes," which can be found on the album Friend or Foe, turned out to be the biggest U.S. hit of Adam Ant's career. However, lame music, erratic behavior and severe mental problems have plagued Ant over the years. Ant once commented, prophetically, "The time to worry is when everybody likes you. When everybody likes you you've had it." In 2002, Ant (dressed as a cowboy) was arrested after he whipped out a pistol during a brawl at a pub. Apparently, he got pissed off after bar patrons started making fun of him for his bizarre attire. After throwing rocks through his neighbor's window during the summer of 2003, Ant entered a psychiatric hospital. If you've seen his mug shot, you know that he looks about 70 years old even though he's only about 50. Truly disturbing.

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