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The discography of Madness, a British pop/ska band, comprises 13 studio albums, 16 compilation albums, four live albums, two soundtrack albums, three extended plays, four box sets, 43 singles and 37 music videos.
The singles for the album fared even worse, with "Yesterday's Men" peaking at number 18 in the UK charts. The subsequent singles, "Uncle Sam" and "Sweetest Girl", failed to make the top 20, which was a first for Madness singles. The band then attempted to record a new studio album, and 11 demo tracks were recorded. [30]
Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), known primarily by his stage name Suggs, is a British singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor.. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the ska band Madness, which released fifteen singles that entered the top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including "My Girl", "Baggy Trousers ...
The London Cast of Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Custom promo label BUY 106 The London Cast of Oklahoma! Not issued: BUY 107 Ian Dury & the Blockheads Not issued: BUY DJ 108 Madness "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" BUY 108 Madness "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" 16 January 1981 BUY DJ 109 Tenpole Tudor "Swords of a Thousand Men" BUY 109 Tenpole Tudor
It was released as a one-off single on 14 May 1982 and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, spending nine weeks in the charts. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The song was re-released in 1992, reaching number 40. It is the band's only number one single in the UK and in 2015 the British public voted it as the nation's 8th favourite 1980s number one in a poll ...
The Business – the Definitive Singles Collection is a 3 disc box set by ska/pop band Madness released in 1993. It contained all the band's singles until that point with their respective b-sides and other bonus tracks, some rare. It also includes a 52-page booklet and snippets of interviews with people associated with Madness between some tracks.
The band spent 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart during that decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 1980s UK Singles Chart. [11] Since forming, Madness have had 15 singles reach the UK Top 10. One of these is the UK number-one single ("House of Fun") and two were number-ones in Ireland, "House of Fun" and "Wings of a ...
The album presents the group's UK single A-sides from 1979 through 1986 in chronological order, though their version of "The Sweetest Girl" is omitted. ("The Sweetest Girl" was the only Madness single of this era to miss the top 30.) Also, some tracks are presented in their LP rather than single versions.