Madness star Suggs suggests band would be criminals without fame and music
Madness front-man Graham McPherson said he and his fellow bandmates were on a dangerous path into criminal territory before music steered them in a better direction
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Madness front-man Suggs has gone into detail about the band’s illegal past - and suggested they may all be criminals if not for their music.
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They were also joined by Ben Timlett, the co-director of the docuseries, titled Before We Was We: Madness By Madness.
The show is a three-part original which chronicles the rise of one of the biggest and most loved bands in British culture.
Co-stars: The 60-year-old singer (real name Graham McPherson), who headed up the group as they found fame in the early 1980s, took to the red carpet alongside band-mate Chris Foreman
House Of Fun! Suggs rocked an eccentric yellow checked three-piece suit with an over-sized bow-tie, a burgundy smoking jacket and a cane
The event on Thursday was what is believed to be the world s smallest premiere event.
Suggs says music saved him and his bandmates from a life of crime.
The Madness frontman was arrested for affray as a teen growing up in Camden, north London, and in the band s upcoming three-part docuseries, Before We Was We: Madness by Madness , the 60-year-old musician recalls how joining the group in 1977 was a crossroads in his life.
He shared: Being in the band was like an extension of being in a gang apart from the fact it wasn’t just us smashing up phone boxes and kicking traffic cones down the road together.
“It was at a crossroads. A lot of those people we knew at that time did get into serious crime.
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Frontman Suggs had been arrested for affray in his teens and admitted they could have been jailbirds if they had not become chart-toppers.
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