in june 1977, beckett was guitarist in the band desolation angels when their drummer, david barbarossa was recruited away from the group by a recently formed punk band, the ants, who had supported them at a concert in chelsea that month. four months later, after the ants sacked their guitarist mark ryan, beckett was recruited as his replacement and took the stagename johnny bivouac. bivoauc stayed with the band, shortly thereafter renamed adam and the ants, until may 1978, recording the band's first peel session on 23 january 1978 and the following day recording deutscher girls for the soundtrack album of derek jarman's film "jubilee". label e.g. records released the track as a single a side in february 1982, to cash in on the later commercial success of the ants' early 1980s incarnation. this reached 13 on the uk singles chart.