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- Published: 26 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780753553947
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Before We Was We
Madness by Madness
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- Published: 26 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780753553947
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes
Q Magazine
[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas
The Telegraph
Brilliantly assembled by journalist Tom Doyle as an oral history featuring the voices of all the members … tells you more about how a band becomes a band than any number of anecdotes about life in the studio
Financial Times
As much as anything, the book is a social history of growing up on the edges of criminality
Financial Times
An amazing book … one of the best books about a band I have ever read. I've been raving about it to everyone I meet
Michael Hann, music journalist