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- Published: 17 October 2019
- ISBN: 9780753554692
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 6 hr 57 min
- Narrators: Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth, Lee Thompson
- RRP: $24.99
Before We Was We
Madness by Madness
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- Published: 17 October 2019
- ISBN: 9780753554692
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 6 hr 57 min
- Narrators: Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth, Lee Thompson
- RRP: $24.99
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