Before we was we
2019
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North London. The 1970s. Amid a grim landscape of bomb sites, squats, public baths and rough pubs, a loose gang of misfits and outsiders started making music together - riding freight trains, spraying graffiti, stealing records, clothes and musical instruments. Escaping the fringes of criminality, they formed a band. These lairy but charismatic chaps became Madness, one of the most successful pop groups ever, in the UK and beyond. In 'Before We Was We', their first official book, they tell us the story of how they became them. It's a journey full of luck, skill and charm, as they duck and dive by day and make the name in London's exploding music scene by night, zipping around the capital in their Morris Minor vans.
Main title:
Before we was we / Madness by Madness with Tom Doyle ; foreword by Dave Robinson.
Author:
Doyle, Tom, 1967-, authorMadness (Musical group), author
Imprint:
London : Virgin Books, 2019.
Collation:
xi, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780753553923 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
782.42164782.4216782.421640922920782.421 MAD920 MADN782.421 BARSB MAD BAR782.4216 MAD
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1218606