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Wikipedia article
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| cover = Goody Two Shoes.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Adam Ant
| album = Friend or Foe
| B-side = "Red Scab"
"Crackpot History" (US/Canada)
| released = 7 May 1982
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| label = CBS
Epic (US/Canada)
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| prev_title = 'The B-Sides'
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Friend or Foe
| next_year = 1982
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"'Goody Two Shoes'" is the debut solo single by Adam Ant, released on 7 May 1982.
History
There are two versions of the cover. The first has Adam and the Ants across the top of the sleeve and the later version just Adam Ant. This is probably due to the confusion around the timing of Ant going solo, particularly as the song was performed by three fifths of the band Ant, Pirroni and Hughes.
There are also two different studio versions of the song. The UK 7" single version is notably different from the re-recorded version which appears on 'Friend or Foe'. The single version has a different, more reverberating drum track. The 'Friend or Foe' version, instead of Hughes on drums, features Bogdan Wiczling, drummer on the rest of the album.
Ant performed "Goody Two Shoes" at 'Top of the Pops' on 20 May 1982.
B-side
Ant sometimes recorded new versions of his pre-1980 compositions for the B-side of his singles. For this single, an old Ant song from 1977 called "Red Scab" was used.
Track listing
All songs written by Adam Ant except as noted.
#"Goody Two Shoes" (Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni) 3:15
#"Red Scab" 4:06
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Music video
The video presents a stylized vision of a day in the life of Adam Ant, from dressing in the morning to performing on stage, to being hounded by the media. At the end of the day, he takes home a woman journalist played by British actress Caroline Munro, in effect answering the song's theme question, "What do you do?" The video also starred veteran actors Graham Stark and Dandy Nichols, as the butler and cleaning woman respectively.
Other media
*"Goody Two Shoes" was featured in the film 'Hot Fuzz' and the television series 'The Umbrella Academy'.
Covers
*Punk band Unwritten Law later covered this song.
*In 2014, singer-songwriters Jim Boggia and Pete Donnelly released a cover version of the song on the multi-artist compilation album 'Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion'.
See also
*The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
*List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
References
Category:1982 debut singles
Category:1982 songs
Category:Adam Ant songs
Category:CBS Records singles
Category:Epic Records singles
Category:Number-one singles in Australia
Category:Songs written by Adam Ant
Category:Songs written by Marco Pirroni
Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Category:Dance-rock songs
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