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Madness may be nutty, but they are certainly not daft. Our Baggy Trousers boys are no red-nosed clowns.
No band can score with NINE consecutive hit singles and just be a bunch of buffoons.
Because that is exactly what the seven-man North London band have achieved.
Their single, Shut Up (Stiff), is the ninth Top Twenty hit in a row. Their new album, Madness 7 (Stiff), is perched solidly at No 5. They just cannot miss. So what next?
Lead singer Suggs, 20, says: "You just write the songs, record 'em, release 'em and they go up the charts. Failure is the only thing left!"
Their career is now taking off in another direction - into films.
On Wednesday, "Take It Or Leave It", the story of their early years, was premiered at the Gate Three Cinema in Camden Town. Their local.
The boys put up half the money for the film, £250,000.
And, after the mad movie, there was a family knees-up in the Dublin Castle, the Camden pub where they first found fame - and shot the final scene of the film.
The boys loved every moment of the nutty nonsense.
Suggs said: "A year ago, we got a bit tired of all the silliness. People expected us to behave like idiots, sort of on-tap loonies. We struggled against it, but in the end we realised that people must take us as they find us."
I find them smashing. They haven't changed a bit from the day I first met them almost two years ago.
Lee Thompson, for instance, is unlike the average wealthy star.
Not for him the flashy Rolls-Royce. Instead, a pushbike.
Thompson says: "I could get a maid to do my washing and that, but I don't want it. You could get lazy like that. I like to wash my own socks."
Suggs says: "The film is based on fact. It has been exaggerated and dramatised a bit, but that's how it was. The only slight problem was that only a certain number of non-Equity members were allowed to act. Some of our Mums and Dads and friends are played by actors and actresses, which is a shame.
"Our work is fun. We love it - as long as the music goes on getting better and better."
And as long as they go on having fun they'll keep on going. The Magnificent, MADnificent Seven.
- Contributed by Lee 'Loobyloo' Buckley
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