Biography

Madness took its cue from other British ska revivalists such as the Specials and the Selecter, but where those bands took aim at social issues, Madness went in for goofy fun. In the early days of MTV, the group had several stateside hits, but nothing to match its success at home. Starting in the mid-1980s, the band became an on-again, off-again affair, buoyed mostly live performances of older material, but in 1999, they returned to the studio to record their first new songs in more than a decade.

Top Tracks

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• Baggy Trousers

• Bed And Breakfast Man

• Cardiac Arrest

• Clerkenwell Polka

• Dangermen (aka High Wire)

• Drip Fed Fred

• Driving In My Car

• Dust Devil

• Embarrassment

• Girl Why Don't You?

• Grey Day

• House Of Fun

• In The Middle Of The Night

• It Must Be Love

• March Of The Gherkins

• Michael Caine

• My Girl

• Night Boat To Cairo

• On The Town

• One Better Day

• One Step Beyond

• One Step Beyond...

• Our House

• Primrose Hill

• Rise And Fall

• Shame And Scandal

• Shut Up

• Sweetest Girl

• The Return Of The Los Palmas 7

• The Sun And The Rain

• Tomorrow's (just Another Day)

• Tomorrow's Just Another Day

• Uncle Sam

• We Are London

• Wings Of A Dove (a Celebratory Song)

Discography

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• The Liberty of Norton Folgate

  Yep Roc / Lucky 7 Records

  2009

• The Dangermen Sessions, Vol. 1

  V2 Records

  2005

• Wonderful

  Virgin

  1999

• Madstock

  Universal Distribution

  1992