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Before We Was We by Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth, Lee Thompson & Dan Woodgate
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Before We Was We

Madness by Madness
by Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth, Lee Thompson & Dan Woodgate

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Length 7 hours 15 minutes
Language English
Narrators Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth & Lee Thompson

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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for the Best Ensemble Narration Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.

This audiobook is Madness' story in their own words - with each band member featuring as a narrator.

In their own words they each look back on their shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another's footsteps by day and rising up through the city's exploding pub music scene by night. Before We Was We is irreverent, funny and full of character. Just like them.

Biography & MemoirMusicNonfiction

Audiobook details

Authors
Narrators Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth & Lee Thompson
ISBN 9780753554692
Length 7 hours 15 minutes
Language English
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Publication date
Edition Unabridged
Genres Biography & Memoir, Music & Nonfiction
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Reviews

A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes [One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas 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 As much as anything, the book is a social history of growing up on the edges of criminality 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 Expand reviews
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