Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 22 December 1979
THERE'S NO tradition of ska being popular in America. Millie Small and Desmond Dekker each had one novelty hit a piece, and that's it. But Madness have enough of the classic R&B crunch in their sound to make an American audience feel at home.
Total word count of piece: 552
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