Matthew Ashman

Matthew Ashman
Birth name	Matthew James Ashman
Born	3 November 1960(1960-11-03)
Origin	Mill Hill, England
Died	21 November 1995(1995-11-21) (aged 35)
Genres	Punk rock, New Wave
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, keyboards
Years active	1970s–1995
Associated acts	Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Chiefs of Relief

Matthew James Ashman (3 November 1960, Mill Hill^[1] – 21 November 1995)^[2] was an English guitarist with Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. He died of diabetes-related complications in 1995, aged 35.^[2]

Career

Raised in Mill Hill, Barnet he attended school alongside Boz Boorer. He was influenced by jazz while learning guitar,^[3] and joined his first band, Staffix, after learning Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird".

He joined Adam and the Ants after leaving The Kameras, in June 1978, playing guitar and singing backing vocals. After 18 months, during which the Ants toured the UK twice, visited Belgium, Germany and Italy, and released the singles "Young Parisians" and "Zerox", plus the album, Dirk Wears White Sox, Ashman, together with fellow Ants Dave Barbe and Leigh Gorman were persuaded by manager Malcolm McLaren to leave the Ants and join Bow Wow Wow, featuring 13-year-old lead singer Annabella Lwin.

Bow Wow Wow broke up after three albums in 1983 and while Lwin went solo, the other members formed Chiefs of Relief with Ashman now as frontman. Gorman and Barbe drifted away (the latter replaced by former Sex Pistol Paul Cook, and the new lineup released an eponymous album on Sire Records in 1988 before breaking up. After several years away from the music industry, Ashman joined Agent Provocateur in the early 1990s, dying in 1995 shortly before the band released their album.

On the fifteenth anniversary of Ashman's death, Adam Ant topped the bill at a tribute concert for Ashman on 21 November 2010 at the Scala in London, in a show also featuring later Ashman bands Bow Wow Wow, Chiefs Of Relief and Agent Provocateur. Boorer provided guitar for Ant's set.^[4]

References

1. ^ Facebook.com
2. ^ ^{a b} Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - accessed June 2011
3. ^ Simmonds, Jeremy. The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars. Pg. 342. Chicago Review Press, 2008. ISBN 1-55652-754-3, 9781556527548
4. ^ Adam-ant.net

Persondata
Name	Ashman, Matthew
Alternative names
Short description	English music guitarist
Date of birth	3 November 1960
Place of birth	Mill Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
Date of death	21 November 1995
Place of death	London, England

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