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Not Home Today

Not Home Today

Written by Suggs and Bedders the song 'Not Home Today' has a reggae influence and is about how people make excuses to hide the fact that a family member has been sent to borstal or prison. This theme of a life of crime is also present in ...
Powder Blue

Powder Blue

Mike: 'Powder Blue' was one of my favourite songs on the album. It was an old song, from back when I'd been working with Suggs, before he decided to do his solo career. He'd given me the lyric and l'd written the tune to it ages ago - it was a ...
Black and Blue

Black and Blue

Mike: I wrote 'Black and Blue' about breaking up with my missus, Sandra. We'd been married for a very long time. That song was about the breakup, and the relief, in some ways, when you've been stuck in the negative spiral that some ...
I’ll Complete

I’ll Complete

Rockin’ in A♭

Rockin’ in A♭

Dan Barson was the singer of Bazooka Joe, a north London rock and roll band that started in 1970. His brother Mike used to see them play in the mid-1970s. After seeing the Sex Pistols, the band changed and is now better known as Stuart ...
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

When Dawn Arrives

When Dawn Arrives

Leon

Leon

Woody: I'd written a song that was a bit Kings Of Leon-ish, rough, straight, lots of guitar. It sounded fucking great. I played it to Nick, because I needed a melody and some lyrics. He said, "All I've got is a chorus: 'I feel like running out ...
A Town With No Name

A Town With No Name

Written by Chris Foreman, who was then the king of B-sides, A Town With No Name was the B-side to the single 'Shut Up' and drew inspiration from the lawless settings of classic Spaghetti Western films. The latter's dramatic and haunting ...
Victoria Gardens

Victoria Gardens

Time For Tea

Time For Tea

Yesterday’s Men

Yesterday’s Men

Time

Time

Believe Me

Believe Me

"Believe Me" was one of the earliest original songs by Madness. It was written by John Hasler and Mike Barson. Hasler used to write many things, including poems, songs and even the first two pages of a novel. He would give his lyrics to Mike so ...
Bullingdon Boys

Bullingdon Boys

Madness today unveil snap release 'Bullingdon Boys'. The seminal British pop band's first new music since 2016, 'Bullingdon Boys' is a self explanatory, barbed swipe at the charlatans, rotters and chancers at the top of the tree who have done ...
In the City

In the City

Coldest Day

Coldest Day

You Said

You Said

Suggs says that my memory could be more precise with many songs he wrote with Mike. From what I recall, this tune was written by Mike in the days when we rehearsed in the disused dentist surgery in Finchley. Mike had the title and some of the ...
Small World

Small World

Chris: I loved 'Small World'. Because it talked about the "magic line" , this overground train-line that connected us all. When we did the book Before We Was We, we realised all these connections that had linked us, like Woody went to the same ...
Stepping Into Line

Stepping Into Line

"Stepping Into Line" is another tune from Mr Hasler's pen. "John wrote the first half of the words, and I wrote the other half," says Suggs. Chris describes it as "my moment of glory, trying to keep it all together!" Well, it does race away ...
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