Madness band

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Madness (band), by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4... / CC BY SA 3.0 • #Madness_(band) • #Musical_groups_established_in_1976 • #Musical_groups_from_London • #Second-wave_ska_groups • #English_new_wave_musical_groups • #Ivor_Novello_Award_winners • #V2_Records_artists • #English_ska_musical_groups • #2_Tone_Records_artists • #1976_establishments_in_England • Madness (band) • Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976. One of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s and early-1980s two-tone ska revival, they continue to perform with six of the seven members of their classic line-up. • Madness achieved most of their success in the early to mid-1980s. Both Madness and UB40 spent 214 weeks on the UK singles charts over the course of the decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 1980s UK singles charts. However, Madness did so in a shorter time period (1980–1986). • Madness have had 15 singles reach the UK top ten, which include One Step Beyond , Baggy Trousers and It Must Be Love , one UK number one single ( House of Fun ) and two number ones in Ireland, House of Fun and Wings of a Dove . Our House was their biggest US hit. In 2000 the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection. • The core of the band formed as The North London Invaders in 1976, and included Mike Barson (Monsieur Barso) on keyboards and vocals, Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) on guitar and Lee Thompson (Kix) on saxophone and vocals. They later recruited John Hasler on drums and Cathal Smyth (better known as Chas Smash) on bass guitar. Later in the year, they were joined by lead vocalist Dikron Tulane. • This six-piece line-up lasted until part way through 1977, when Graham McPherson (better known as Suggs) took over the lead vocals after seeing the band perform in a friend's garden. Tulane went on to be an actor under the name Dikran Tulaine. Smyth, who le...

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