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Topic History of: Madness - the highest selling singles band of the 80s?
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JK2006	Better!
Barso's Fingers	I'm sure I read somewhere that they were. When you consider that they had hit after hit between 1979 and 1985 - their success petered out when the keyboard player left to go and live with his family in Holland. Their best and most memorable single has got to be Our House: I see that Virgin Broadband are using the lyrics in their latest advert with a voice over done in a very matter-of-fact style; I think it's subtle enough for the majority of people not to notice! Chrissy Boy, the guitarist who co-wrote it with Chas Smash (the other singer), won an Ivor Novello Award for it - a case of striking gold you might say - and he said in an interview that he views the royalties he gets from it as a kind of pension scheme. I wonder if they knew at the time they wrote it how huge a hit it would be? Ken, you too probably have a few songs in your back catalogue that still provide you with a regular income in a smiliar way. Wasn't Good News Week used as the theme tune for the Australian equivalent of Have I Got News for You? That must produce a tidy sum.