Madness (band)

Madness
Madness performing at Wirral Live in 2017
Background information
Origin	Camden Town, London, England
Genres	Two-tone ska pop new wave rocksteady
Years active	1976–1986, 1992–present
Spinoffs	The Madness The Fink Brothers The Nutty Boys Crunch!
Members	Chris Foreman Mike Barson Lee Thompson Graham "Suggs" McPherson Dan Woodgate Mark Bedford
Past members	Cathal "Chas Smash" Smyth John Hasler Dikran Tulaine Gavin Rodgers Garry Dovey
Website	madness.co.uk

Madness are an English ska and pop 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 original line-up.^[1] Madness's most successful period was from 1980 to 1986, when the band's songs spent a total of 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.^[2][3]

Madness have had 16 singles reach the UK top ten, including "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, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2000, the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.^[4]