What’s A Picnic Without Ants?

�Malcolm McLaren just said to me, �What do you want, Adam?�

�I said, �I�d like to be a household name, and have everyone know and like Adam And The Ants.�

�He said, �You�re making it very difficult for yourself. �And he was right!

�I think show business is looked upon as a dirty word, and I don�t think it is. Malcolm�s a very Tin Pan Alley character—he reminds me of Billy Fury�s manager, Larry Parnes. I really admire him: the guy�s alive.

�I paid Malcolm a grand to work for me for four weeks. He sorted me out: he went through my first album word-by-word, note-by-note, and just said what was what. I think he realized early on there was ho way I was going to sing about cassettes or sing his lyrics, which is what all the Boh) Wow Wow words are. I did try, but I couldn�t work under those conditions.

�But he was very wise—Malcblm�s a very wise person — and he helped me a lot...though it was very painful to lose friends like that.