I would agree - as a big Adam and the Ants fan in the brief but glorious Wild Frontier/Prince Charming era - that their, or probably his, theatricality was a very different thing from standard New Romanticism. More about chameleonic, teasing, playful shapeshifting, rather than creating a fixed, and ultimately somewhat ludicrous visage.

It was great when he showed up a decade later in Northern Exposure.