Mark Bedford

Praise for Before We Was We

A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes

Q Magazine

[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas

The Telegraph

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

Financial Times

A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes

Q Magazine

[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas

The Telegraph

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

Financial Times

A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes

Q Magazine

[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas

The Telegraph

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

Financial Times