Madness: Complete Madness
Paul Morley, NME, 24 April 1982
(LOVELY!) ALTHOUGH people are snobby about just about everything except disease, I can think of no one who is snobby about the great and not yet late Madness. Madness have few equals in the hard-headed pop world as regards their sheer likeability.
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