Madness: You Only Live Twice
David Quantick, NME, 5 March 1988
Madness are dead! Long live THE MADNESS. Without Woody and Bedders and Barson's ghost, the Mad Four – Suggs, Carl, Chris and Lee – charge boldly away from all things ancient and nutty. True-to-form DAVID QUANTICK completely mistakes them for The Housemartins.
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