Posted on 05/23/2010 2:17:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
EIGHTIES pop legend Adam Ant has been committed to psychiatric care after ranting at Christians during a Church Hall event.
The troubled star, who suffers from bipolar disorder, was hospitalised on Tuesday night in London.
An unspecified incident led to the 55-year-old singer being taken into care, according to the Adam and the Ants website.
"Adam is currently undergoing initial psychiatric assessment and more details will follow when appropriate. Ant Lib Online would like to wish Adam all the best in his recovery," it said.
A message sent by the star - whose real name is Stuart Goddard - read: "Ant fans - please send me postcards at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road.
"Please don't come down here as it may upset the staff who have been really pleasant. I am having a well earned rest at Her Majesty's Pleasure and am painting and continuing being an art student. I have a great view and am considering gigs later in the year."
Ant stunned fans at a gig in Portsmouth, southern England, last week when he invited a four-year-old boy up on stage and tried to teach him the words to The Who song My Generation.
As some fans began to leave he screamed abuse at them before asking if there were Christians there and telling them to "f*** off".
The singer has been detained under the mental health act several times since 2003. In that year he was hospitalised after being found naked in a cafe basement following a dispute with a neighbour.
The previous year, he was arrested when he threatened drinkers in a London bar with a fake gun.
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I’m shocked. I have all his LPs & CDs and I’m a huge fan.
My favorite songs are ‘Stand & Deliver’ and ‘Friend or Foe’.
Tragic.
No, no, no! It was supposed to be Eddie Van Halen who was “relaxing” in the mental ward and making progress.
Almost 30 years later, they are still touring regularly along with about 500 other one-hit bands from that era. Kajagoogoo, The Fix, Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes, Heaven 17, etc., etc.
Both grandmothers and the father were alcoholic. I agree - it is the luck of the genetic draw.
God bless for at least keeping in contact. That is the hardest part of knowing someone so afflicted. At least they have some contact with normalcy.
I don't go to S.F. anymore unless to a ballgame. I'm in the South Bay.
He also had one that they played all the time in 1989. (In England he many hits)
Indeed. Too often we say "why me"...whereas some say "why not me".
I'm not always thrilled when I have problems...but looking back on them, my greatest times of growth were in those times.
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Room at the top (1990)?
If you were anywhere where they played that song all the time, I pity you. :^D
One hit doth not a LEGEND make ...
In England, where this is happening, he has over ten top ten hits, and three no. 1’s.
Are you calling Adam Ant a “legend”?
(P.S. Tell that to Bucky Dent.)
Or is it that we have periods in our lives that are particularly sweet and we associate the music of that phase as contributing to our quality of life? Perhaps there are others who feel that from 1985 -1991 or whenever was the "most unusual" period etc.
The changeover from AOR to new wave was a big big deal.
I think he may have a Whip in his Valise.
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