I also saw in the book, "The Top 10 of Everything" that Madness was one of
the 10 most successful bands of the 1980's in the UK. "Successful" meaning
sales of singles, album sales, music video sales, radio requests, and music
video requests. Rather impressive, no?
-Mike McGrew.....................................good day!
>I remembered another couple of facts which backs this up.
>
>They were the first act ever to have their first 20 singles all top 20 in
>the UK!
>
>They were the most successful singles band of the 80s in the UK, despite
>splitting up in 1986.
>
>And if Drip Fed Fred can make the Top 40, they'll be the first act to have
>Top 40 hits in each of the last 4 decades, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s(that
>doesn't look right!). David Bowie has had "hits" in each decade since the
>60s and the Pet Shop Boys and Eurythmics have now managed to clock up top
>40 hits in the last 3 decades.
>
>Cheers for now,
>Statto Pete
>
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