by Madness Discography | May 6, 2024
Chris: I’ve got so many songs that I’ve written with Lee that have never seen the light of day, and I didn’t want these to get lost. In the end, a lot of mine and Thommo’s songs ended up on the ‘box set’ version of the album. So...
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
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by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Cathal: Since the world began and the first stone was thrown, when violence was born and fashioned daggers from bone, nothing much has changed… protect the weak, don’t hang with the freak, keep a smile on your cheek, find the peace that you seek…...
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Lee: 20 years after its release, Chris & myself wrote our inspired version, ‘Mistress, Mistress’ – it sounded fab but, as agent 1 would say, ‘this song is available absolutely nowhere!’ Lola obviously had an unearthly effect on myself...
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Lee: Though Bruce Ruffin’s version was plushly produced, the ‘nursery rhyme’ middle 8 always annoyed us so this was replaced by a James Bond feel with a dodgy sax solo over her. Trumpeter Simon Wilcox played a slurred, almost drunk-sounding part in...
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Mike: There will always be someone bigger than you, you may not like it but whether you can do anything about it is another question!
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Mike: I was with my brother Dan, we were on our pushbikes, it was the school summer holidays of 1968. We were slowly making our way out of the grime of North London on the long journey to our holiday destination, a railway cottage in Santon Downham near Thetford in...
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Cathal: Take a piece of thread, pass it thru the eye of a needle and wash it in purple sand. Stitch a circle of gold silk to a blue mohair jacket and whisper three times beneath a full moon the incantation… love is the answer… all will be well if you wear....
by Madness Discography | May 5, 2024
Mark: People always say, I remember where I was and what I was doing, when I first heard that song. For me, *You Keep Me Hanging On’, by The Supremes, is just one of those songs. 1967. Sitting in the kitchen, eating porridge, getting ready to be taken to school....
