Editing Adam Ant (section)

===Early musical career===
The first band Goddard joined was [[Bazooka Joe (band)|Bazooka Joe]], in which he played bass guitar.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He has said that the idea of Adam Ant came to him after watching the [[Sex Pistols]] play their first gig opening for Bazooka Joe at [[Saint Martin's School of Art]] in 1975: "After seeing the Pistols, I wanted to do something different, be someone else, but couldn't work out what and [whom]."<ref name="SD Autobio" /><sup>: 92, 94</sup>

He renamed himself Adam Ant, choosing the name because "I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because [[Adam]] was the [[Adam and Eve|first man]]. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive."<ref name=":1" /> He formed his own band, the B-Sides, with [[Lester Square]] and [[Andy Warren (British musician)|Andy Warren]].<ref name="SD Autobio" /><sup>: 94</sup> In 1977, together with drummer Paul Flanagan, they went on to form Adam and the Ants (initially named just "The Ants"), with the inaugural band meeting held in the audience at a [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] performance at [[The Roxy (Covent Garden)|The Roxy]] in London's [[Covent Garden]].<ref>Antconcerts & Events list section, Antcatalogue – distributed with [[Kings of the Wild Frontier]] LP, CBS 1980</ref>