Adam Ant is complicated, in the best sense of the word. Throughout his career, the man born Stuart Goddard has pulled inspiration from the worlds of music, art, film, television and radio.

Emerging from the late 1970s U.K. punk scene, Ant stood out with his sartorial flair that favored a pirate motif and for videos for singles such as ‘Stand and Deliver.” His brand of “Antmusic” gave Americans a full dose of New Romantic panache.

Four decades-plus later, Ant is bringing his Antmusic 2024 Tour to the states and is glad to be taking fans through his song canon.

The tour comes Wednesday to Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs.

“It’s really a celebration of the catalog and my favorite choices of the songs, with a few I’ve not played before,” Ant said in an early March interview.

“And there are some that I’ve rarely performed before. I’m really having fun with it and just going to go out there and putting the emphasis on the dancing throughout the evening.”

While studying graphic design and filmmaking at London’s Hornsey College of Art, Ant got into music by playing bass in pub rock outfit Bazooka Joe. Having caught the Sex Pistols play their first gig in 1975, Ant decided to pursue music. In late 1979, Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren approached him about working together.

“I was at a party sitting there and he walked over and asked about the Ants,” he recalled. “I was very flattered. This was Malcolm, the manager of the Sex Pistols, and he had a great sort of mind, who was a great entrepreneur with a great sort of mind.”

Soon McClaren had signed on to manage Ant, but it wasn’t long after that when McLaren convinced the rest of the original Ants to leave their frontman and form Bow Wow Wow with teenage vocalist Annabella Lwin.

Undeterred, Ant rebounded with a new group of Ants and made the 1980 album “Kings of the Wild Frontier.” He also benefited by delving into the emerging medium of the music video, just as MTV arrived on the scene.

“I had grown up watching music and at art school, I learned to do storyboards,” Ant said.

“When it came time to do the ‘Stand and Deliver’ video, I was able to sit down and storyboard it. I took it to the director and then we sat down together and had some kind of vision before it was made. It became like a small film as opposed to just a promo video.

“I had quite a number of visual stories up my sleeves,” he added.

“Each single had a video for it and that really helped me get seen across the U.S.A. before I went and toured there.”