The Madness (2021 Reissue)

The Madness (2021 Reissue)The Madness, originally released in May 1988, is the only album recorded by Suggs, Chas Smash, Chrissy Boy and Lee Thompson of Madness. Calling themselves The Madness, the group explored a new direction without Mike Barson, Woody and Mark Bedford. The result was an album bathed in all the new technology the late 1980s had to offer, and features some of this incarnation of Madness most experimental work. Lead vocals were shared between Suggs and Chas

7 Itz A Set Up

The subjects that populate Greene’s songs and visual imagery augment his elegiac lyrics

It produced three singles

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‘There Goes My Baby’ and ‘Eyes’

It was the unlikeliest of pop hits

primarily written and recorded over a span of 10 months

long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement

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Band Line-up: Bob Calvert (Vocals

To their credit

The Goffin-King and Mann-Weil teams already have collections of their work available in Ace's highly regarded and strong-selling Songwriter series