"Goody Two Shoes" is the debut solo single by

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, 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 ''

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'' on 20 May 1982.

B-side

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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

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, in effect answering the song's theme question, "What do you do?" The video also starred veteran actors

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and

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, as the butler and cleaning woman respectively.

Other media

*"Goody Two Shoes" was featured in the film ''

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'' and the television series ''

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''.

Covers

*Punk band

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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''.

References

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