Madness' One Step Beyond...

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One Step Beyond isn't the best album in the world - it's not even the best album by Madness. It is, however, a great record and an exceptional debut album -fully formed despite half the band still being in their teens - and it remains as exhilarating, inspiring and as much fun as when people first heard it nearly 30 years ago. Through extensive interviews with the band, as well as producers Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, Terry Edwards tells the inside story of how Madness rose to be the most successful singles band of the 1980s in the UK charts.

Terry Edwards is a multi-instrumentalist who tours worldwide with innumerable bands (including Tindersticks, Gallon Drunk, PJ Harvey, and Robyn Hitchcock) and releases music on his London-based label, Sartorial Records. This is his first book.

It's impossible to have partaken of popular music over the last three decades without running into Terry Edwards. * www.madness-central.com/interviews/TerryEdwards.html * Terry Edwards' One Step Beyond is a perfect companion piece and a great way to commemorate a brilliant album. -- Christel Loar * Pop Matters * Terry Edwards' One Step Beyond, about the amazing pop thrills of the first Madness album and the mirthful British ska milieu that spawned it (and it helped jump) is a bracing read, whether you're in skinhead braces or not. * KEXP Seattle *