Dear Chris,
Just finished reading Ian Dury and Slash’s autobiography. Two worlds apart. One will forever be loved for what he meant to Music and as a great personality and one will be remembered for his guitar playing and indulging in enormous amounts of drugs and booze.
These two books are not the only band/artist biographies I’ve read. Maybe because I wanted to be a muscician, I like reading about them. What I find amazing is that a band like Madness (with 7 members) stayed so long together, could it be because ‘with all due respect’ you guys are more down to earth and about the music, then most of the bands? I have to ask this as there is no official book about Madness to read….yet?!?! 😉

Great show at the Jubilee, you have made us Madness fans proud to be…Madness fans. Funny enough I got several sms’s about how good your gig was. Like I was the mastermind. I’m only a humble fan.
Andre

dear Andre
there have been a few attempts at a Madness book. George Marshall wrote one in 1993.

More recently there was “House of Fun” by John Reed. This was unauthorised and therefore had no contemporary interviews with the bad and alsocontained a lot of inaccuracies. For example, Mike Barsons surname is incorrect.
CB