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Madness: The Italian Nutty Brigade
Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, October 1980
All aboard the trans-Europe express as Madness go from Rome to Amsterdam, by Paolo Hewitt ...

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AUDIO: Madness (2002)
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, December 2002
Chas Smash, joined by Suggs and Mike Barson, looks back at Madness then and now, Our House the Musical, reunions (theirs and others'), Buddhism, domesticity, and ...

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Madness: Dublin Castle, London
Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, June 1979
THE NAME says it all. ...

Madness: Blue Beat and Pork Pies
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, November 1979
Not so much New Boots and Panties, more a case of...Blue Beat and Pork Pies. Britain in the grip of Madness. Report by Garry Bushell. ...

Madness: When The Screaming Had To Start
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, February 1980
"'ERE, SUGGSY...'Ere, Suggs." ...

Madness in the USA
Report and Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, March 1980
Today the UK. Tomorrow the USA? Next week, the world? Are Madness about to get everybody up and dancing again? MARK WILLIAMS sits down and listens ...

Madness: The Whisky, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, April 1980
Prince Buster cracks LA at last ...

Madness: The Importance of Being Nutty
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, April 1980
Mike Stand diagnoses Madness ... ...

Madness: The Mad Hatter's TV Party
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, NME, October 1980
THE TV PARTY ...

Madness
Profile by Garry Bushell, Dance Craze, 1981
I WAS STUCK on a five hour train journey from Glasgow to London in the summer of '79 with no buffet and with only the company ...

Madness
Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, January 1981
ON A MONDAY morning so dark from thundery rainclouds it seems as though the sky has fallen in, Graham 'Suggs' McPherson, shoe-less and wearing only a ...

A Brief Case History Of Madness
Book Excerpt by Mark Williams, Proteus Books, 1982
Their condition as carriers of a fast reggae hybrid, ska, was first diagnosed in 1979. This nutty sound was then transmitted to an increasingly larger audience ...

Madness: Complete Madness
Review by Paul Morley, NME, 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 ...

Madness
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, December 1983
THE TRANSATLANTIC telephone line is dominated by the muffled distortion and hiss common to calls made across a thousand leagues of water; the voice at the ...

Madness: Adventures in Madonia
Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, January 1984
With Mike Barson' departure from Madness are Camden's finest now fast approaching the pop parody stakes? or will a three day trip to Poland, fighting off ...

Madness by Madness
Interview by Max Bell, No.1, February 1984
IT'S FIVE years and 18 hit singles since Madness first ran riot on Top of the Pops and straight into the nation's hearts. ...

Madness: Keep Moving (Stiff)
Review by Richard Cook, NME, February 1984
I'M TOLD Madness are in decline, and for someone who found 'Grey Day' and 'House Of Fun, to be the only tracks he wanted to hear ...

Madness: Upwards And Onwards
Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 1985
MADNESS ARE PLANNING A TV SERIES. THEY'RE STARTING A RECORD LABEL. THEY EVEN WEAR HAND-MADE SOCKS THESE DAYS. IT'S CALLED "BROADENING ONE'S OUTLOOK". WELL, THAT'S WHAT ...

A Serious Case Of Madness
Interview by Don Watson, NME, August 1985
No longer just Nutty Boys, MADNESS have grown into troubled and doubting pop commentators on the English way of life. DON WATSON traces the Four Faces ...

Madness: 21 Today
Interview by Max Bell, No.1, November 1985
It's just over six years since those young nutty boys hit the Top 20 with 'The Prince'. Now Madness have just notched up their 21st hit ...

Madness: Suggs on Women, Romance, Sexism and Growing Up
Interview by Max Bell, No.1, 1986
CAN MEN be feminists? ...

The End of 2-Tone: Madness/The Specials/The Selecter
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1986
Farewell, Madness – the last of the 2-Tone tribe. Phil Sutcliffe follows the fate of the three groups that pioneered the ska revival. ...

Madness: Utter Madness
Review by John McCready, NME, November 1986
IT WAS almost as if they were trying too hard to convince themselves. With all the zip his curiously glum voice could muster, Suggs sings, "I'll ...

England: Look Back In Anguish
Essay by Mark Sinker, NME, January 1988
"Oh, grassy dale and lowland scene/Come see, come hear the English Scheme!" (The Fall)
"You might sleep, but you will never dream/Oh, Manchester! So much to answer ...

Madness: You Only Live Twice
Interview by David Quantick, NME, 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 ...

Madness: The Business
Review by Mark Cooper, Mojo, January 1994
I FIRST SAW MADNESS EARLY IN 1980 IN A SAN Francisco club. It was the city's mecca of punk but the locals didn't know quite what ...

Madness: Naughty Boys In Nasty Schools
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Later, September 1999
NAUGHTY BOYS IN NASTY SCHOOLS ...

Madness: Mad About The Boys?
Retrospective and Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
North London ska legends Madness ruled the world for a decade. Now they're back with a new album. Joel Mciver speaks to the original nutty boy ...