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Nutty band drive the fans crazy.....
Madness are a crazy gang of cheerful loons who live up to their name.
Their outlandish brands of lunacy drive the fans barmy.
And that bouncy, ska-type music - the "nutty sound" they call it - has shot the odd-ball group to success.
Their album 'One Step Beyond' has sold more than half-a-million copies.
The seven-man outfit from North London used to waltz on stage doing the "nutty train", a ska-type conga. Now they have a new trick - the "nutty pyramid", with all the guys hanging off each other. They've nicknamed themselves "The Flying Fellinis".
Nuttier still, says Chas Smash, was the group's Spanish version of their hit single 'One Step Beyond'.
"We heard a Spanish group was going to do a cover version so we thought we'd get in first. None of us can speak Spanish but we learned the words for that."
Chas, 21, was a fan who used to jump on stage and bop away.
They couldn't get rid of him - so he was drafted into the group.
Now he's the leaping, lunatic resident dancer.
Madness got together as a group two years ago.
It all started as a bit of a giggle - something to do on a Saturday night.
In those days most of the guys were musical novices.
Lead singer Suggs - real name Graham McPherson - had such a lousy voice he was kicked out of the band at one point.
Gradually they got better - and persistence paid off.
It's all got beyond a joke now. People actually take the group seriously.
They finish their current twenty-date British tour on Saturday.
Then it's off to Europe for another tour, back here for more dates, and then into the studio to record more nutty sounds.
It just shows what can happen when you take a joke seriously!
- Contributed by Lee 'Loobyloo' Buckley
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