Graham McPherson Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth Graham McPherson Net Worth Graham McPherson net worth: $10 Million Graham McPherson net worth: Graham McPherson is an English singer, actor, television and radio personality who has a net worth of $10 million. Graham McPherson was born in Hastings, Sussex, England in January 1961. He is better known by the name Suggs. Graham McPherson is known for being the lead vocalist for the ska and pop band Madness. The band had 15 singles that reached the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom including "My Girl", "Baggy Trousers", "It Must Be Love", "Embarrassment", "House of Fun", "Out House", "Driving in My Car", "Wings of a Dove", and "Lovestruck". Their debut studio album One Step Beyond… was released in 1979 and reached #2 in the UK. Their second album Absolutely was released in 1980 and also reached #2 in the UK. Madness has released a total of 10 studio albums.

They won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song for "Our House" and another for Outstanding Song Collection. In 2010 Madness was awarded the Idol Award at the Q Awards. In 1995 McPherson started a solo career and has released two studio albums. As an actor he has almost 50 acting credits to his name including the movies The Tall Guy and Don't Go Breaking My Heart. He has authored the books Suggs and the City: My Journeys Through Disappearing London and Suggs: That Close. Graham McPherson Suggs - Meaning And Origin Of The Name Suggs | NAMEANING.NET Suggs Suggs Expression , Suggs Soul Urge , Suggs Inner Dream Definition funny of Suggs: 1.) God. 2.) Singer of 80's ska band "Madness" 3.) The man who happens to have the sexiest voice in the entire universe. see also suggs mcpherson and/or graham mcpherson "Give me a couple minutes. I need to do my nightly praying to Suggs." or "Did you try ebay?

They have tons of Suggs singles up." a term similar to what's up, but with Pro Bowl OLB/DE Terrell Suggs (Baltimore Ravens/former Arizona State University Sun Devil) last name in place of "up". "whats suggs?" "nothing jus chillin, whats suggs witchu?" "whats suggs for tonight?" To sugg means you are giving someone a second hug. Watch out for that chick, she likes to sugg people! Or: Awww come here and give me a sugg! A girl who leads guys on Songs about Suggs: Hang Out The Stars In Indiana [feat. Suggs] by Angelo Badalamenti from the Album The Edge Of Love (International Version) Wonderwall (feat. Chad Sugg) by Landon Austin from the Album Covers: Two We Found Love (feat.

Chad Sugg) by Landon Austin from the Album Covers: One Blow It Up (Marvin Suggs Remuch) by Bonaparte from the Album Remuched - Remixed Camden Town (In The Style Of Suggs) (Karaoke Version) by Karaoke Hit Squad from the Album Karaoke Hit Squad Presents: Vol.

4 Camden Town (Karaoke Version) (Originally Performed By Suggs) by Sunfly Abraxa from the Album Karaoke Hits By Madness Camden Town (Karaoke-Version) As Made Famous By: Suggs by Studio Group from the Album Karaoke World: Here We Go Books about Suggs: Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (Southern Classics Series) by Johnson Jones Hooper (May 20, 1993) Suggs and the City: Journeys Through Disappearing London by Suggs (Sep 17, 2009) Suggs and the City: My Journeys Through Disappearing London by Suggs (Aug 1, 2010) Suggs by David Wiltse (Nov 1, 2011) Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other...

by Johnson Jones Hooper and Johanna Nicol Shields (Oct 30, 1993) Don Suggs: One Man Group Show by Meg Linton, Doug Harvey, Nevin Schreiner and Paul Vangelisti (2007) Sugg: Webster's Timeline History, 1805 - 2007 by Icon Group International (Mar 24, 2010) Wiki information Suggs: Terrell Suggs Actor, Film producer, Measured person, Film story contributor, Organization founder, American football player, Athlete, Person, Award Nominee, Drafted athlete Terrell Raymonn Suggs is an American football outside linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He played college football for Arizona State University, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. The Ravens selected...

Graham McPherson Ska Artist, Composer, Musical Artist, Person, Film actor, Musician, Theater Actor, Person or entity appearing in film, Lyricist, Record Producer Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs, is an English singer, actor, former radio DJ, television and radio personality, who is best known as the frontman of the band Madness. Name Meaning The Farm Biography The Farm The Farm - Est Liverpool 1983 The Farm are a British band from Liverpool. Their album Spartacus reached the top position on the UK Albums Chart when it was released in March 1991. The band was formed in early 1983 [3] and initially comprised Peter Hooton, Steve Grimes, John Melvin and Andrew John “Andy” McVann, [6] who was killed in a police chase on 1 October 1986 at the age of 21, [7] and to whose parents the band’s subsequent album, Spartacus , is dedicated.

The Farm at Guilfest festival The Farm playing on the main stage on Saturday afternoon at Guilfest 2014 The band evolved from an earlier group called The Excitements, [8] initially including Phil Stephenson on bass guitar, Neil (Cad) Campbell on drums, Grimes on guitarand Thomas (the band’s dancer). They became The Farm after Martin Dunbar (vocals) left and Peter Hooton joined, although they did play several gigs as The Excitements with Hooton on vocals. In 1984, they released the single , “Hearts and Minds”, produced by Graham “Suggs” McPherson , [9] lead vocalist with Madness . [3] In 1986, after McVann’s death, Melvin left the band to pursue a varied career as the director of his own construction firm, but he eventually returned to music in 1990 under the guise of Mr. Smith, a two-piece band that toured frequently, but did not release anything of note. In 1987, the band supported The Housemartins on their UK tour.

‘All Together Now’ was produced by Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs, a founding member of the band Madness, and recorded at Mayfair Studios. It was originally released on 26 November 1990 peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Since 2004, The Farm have been performing again, and recent years have established regular appearances at summer festivals, and in 2011-2012 performed as part of the Justice Tonight Band. They joined many other artists and bands on that tour, including 4 performances with The Stone Roses, and culminated 2012 as part of the Justice Collective, who’s single He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, got to Number One in the UK Official Christmas Chart. The band continue to play live, both acoustic and as a full band and plan new music in 2016. Share this now!

Free Madness biography and latest music, latest album, top tracks | SONG365 Country:Other Genres: Biogphiy: There are at least three artists with the name Madness: 1) a British pop ska band from London, formed in 1976 2) an American rapper from Florida 3) a Brazilian death metal band. 1) Madness is a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, England that formed in 1976. As of 2007, the band has continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although it’s varied slightly over the years. They were one of the most prominent bands of the late-70s 2 tone ska revival. However, as their career progressed, the band moved away from ska & closer toward conventional pop music. Madness achieved most of their success in the 80s. Madness spent exactly 214 weeks on the UK singles charts from 1980-89, thereby sharing the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 80s UK singles charts, with UB40.

Formation The core of the band formed as The North London Invaders in 1976, and included Mike Barson (Monsieur Barso) on keyboards and vocals, Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) on guitar and Lee Thompson (Kix) on saxophone and vocals. They later recruited John Hasler on drums and Cathal Smyth (better known as Chas Smash) on bass guitar. Later in the year, they were joined by lead vocalist “Dikron”. This six-piece lineup lasted until part way through 1977, when Graham McPherson (better known as Suggs) took over the lead vocals after seeing the band perform in a friend’s garden. Smyth, who was poor on bass guitar, was replaced by Gavin Rogers, an acquaintance of Barson. McPherson was kicked out of the band for too often choosing to watch football instead of rehearsing. Thompson left the band after Barson criticised his saxophone playing.

Madness Tracks I want to find a cure for cancer, says Madness singer Suggs - Telegraph Rock and Pop Features I want to find a cure for cancer, says Madness singer Suggs Better known for ska hits like Baggy Trousers and House of Fun, the rollie-smoking pop star is now taking on the fight against cancer and the rehabilitation of young offenders in his spare time Madness vocalist Graham 'Suggs' McPherson in Soho Photo: Rex Features Comments Suggs is on a mission. After his wife Anne recovered from breast cancer, her sister Alanah was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died within a couple of months, in October 2012, at the age of 60. It left him determined to find a cure for her strain of the disease. Brought up as an only child by his mother after his heroin addict father was committed to an asylum (apparently for injecting paraffin), the lead singer of Madness, one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, is a family man. With his wife and two daughters, he would spend every holiday with Alanah, her husband and two sons.

“It’s very hard to diagnose so more often than not people with pancreatic cancer are way down the line and that’s the tragedy of it,” he says. “You think, ‘Oh my God, that’s such a virulent form’ because they die so quickly, when in fact it’s not really, it’s just they’ve been diagnosed so late. It can be misdiagnosed as all sorts of things.” We’re sitting in Suggs’ local pub in north London and ironically he’s smoking roll-ups, although he’s planning to give up. He’s heavily set, around 13 stone and six foot one. He has the beginnings of a craggy face, a rugged voice, his hair is turning silver and he’s wearing a beige jacket with a colourful, striped handkerchief peeking out. He was already with Madness by the time he was 16 and never went to university. “I like drinking. All vices in moderation,” he says, before adding, “I like to moderate my moderation.” It’s still mid- afternoon but he orders a beer with a lemonade top .

“We’d seen what Anne had been through and our immediate reaction was that, however bad it is, Alanah would get through it because we’re such strong people. "But she didn’t. It was a big shock to all of us.” Suggs and his wife spent what turned out to be some of Alanah’s last days with her in Italy. “We were still trying to get her to swim and obviously she was getting more and more exhausted,” he recalls. As he speaks, a young child starts squawking. Suggs is not impressed. “I hate kids in pubs,” he admits. “Left on the doorstep when I was a kid, and you were lucky to be there.” His compassion seems to go hand in hand with a hint of no-nonsense. Suggs is on a mission to cure cancer Before the very end, Alanah rallied briefly, and the family found her singing "Help Me Make It Through The Night" on her hospital bed. “We had a great, really deep philosophical time with her in the last week. It doesn’t sound a lot but that extra week was something I’ll remember for ever,” says Suggs.

After his sister-in-law’s death he thought of running a marathon but didn’t make it past the nearest tube station. One of his two daughters, however, suggested a fund-raising campaign and, through a series of events in which Madness have performed, they’ve raised around £200,000 so far. “We saw some of the research, what’s happening to some of the money we’ve been raising, and it has been really remarkable,” he says. He’s witnessed for himself through the microscope the work being done on trying to train virus-fighting cells to target cancerous ones. Witnessing his sister-in-law “cut down” in her late 40s has made him more aware of how lucky he is to be alive. And the campaign to raise awareness has led him to meet MPs at the House of Commons. “It has started consuming me,” he says. His campaigning, of course, is not what Suggs is famous for. After a childhood spent in London and, for a period, with his cousins in Wales while his mother was looking for somewhere permanent to live, he got to know his future Madness bandmates hanging around Hampstead as a teenager.

His mother, with whom he has always had a “fantastic” relationship, worked in bars and sang jazz in Soho clubs and, from a young age he would often be left to his own devices in the evenings. Suggs with his wife, Anne (Rex Features) At about 13, back from Wales with a bit of an accent but still with the Scottish name Graham McPherson, he was fed up with nicknames like “flea-bitten Jock Welsh Haggis b******” so decided to find a new one. He picked Suggs out of his mother’s encyclopaedia of jazz musicians. For a graffiti artist it was an easy moniker, as it also proved to be when he joined Madness. He was kicked out of the band for six months for spending too much time watching Chelsea play football, but his six bandmates became a surrogate family. “We weren’t overtly pretending to be whacky. But we just kind of were and there is a kind of madness within the band ,” he says. “There are some pretty on-the-spectrum characters and that’s what’s made it such an interesting place to be.

It’s a very challenging place for sure, I’ve got the scars to prove it. “I think for all of us Madness has been some kind of group therapy. We’ve helped each other along the way and I think some could have been probably described as clinically insane,” he laughs. “I don’t know, I’m not a psychiatrist. I remember hanging around with other bands and thinking, ‘Jesus! It can be like this? It’s not completely chaotic and anarchic and mad all the time?’ Which it pretty much is in Madness.” So is he mad? “I don’t think it’s such a bad thing to question things and to wonder what sanity is completely,” he replies, somewhat elliptically. “If sanity is the normality that we see around us then possibly I’m a bit mad, yeah.” Madness were, he says, more pop than rock’n’roll and he never took drugs. But juggling stardom and family life in his early twenties was difficult. He became a father at 21 but didn’t have his own to guide him. “I was very glad actually that I had girls because I probably wasn’t ready to be any kind of role model for boys,” he says.

“But you just muddle through the best you can, you love your children unconditionally. Anne was a fantastic mother. She really kept the ship afloat.” 'Possibly I'm a bit mad,' admits Suggs After the band fell apart in the mid-eighties, Suggs became “a bit lost” and saw a psychotherapist four times. After years of being on the road, it felt strange and even slightly scary being without the others. “What he said to me was be very careful of paranoia because you can start making your own nightmares come true. I was getting a bit paranoid about the world and what I was going to do next in my career,” he says. Pop music, after all, “is a pretty nutty world to inhabit, and if you look around at the percentage of people who did actually lose their minds, it’s not surprising that you have a few wobbles along the way if you’ve been in the business for as long as I have”, he adds.

“I saw people properly lose their minds – not in my band – because it’s a very bizarre world being carried shoulder high through the streets one minute and then thrown in the dustbin the next, which is what can happen." His wife, who sings under the pseudonym Bette Bright, is also in a band, the art rock outfit Deaf School, which was once a big influence on Madness and is now touring again. “The rock’n’roll boot’s on the other foot,” says Suggs. “I’m at home with the cats and twiddling my thumbs and she’s roaring up and down the motorway.” Pop music is a 'pretty nutty world', says Suggs (AP) But Madness are about to tour again themselves too, and are trying to record some new material. When interviewed as a 20 year-old by Neil Tennant before his Pet Shop Boys fame, Suggs vowed not to be performing at 30. Now 54, he insists Madness are currently one of the top three live bands in the world. Performing, he says, is “a bit like some funny kind of drug that you can’t get anywhere else. It’s a very high adrenalin thing.

And when you see the audience, what they’re getting out of it, it’s a very rewarding place to be.” And perhaps surprisingly in the turbulent world of popular music, he remains friends with all his bandmates. “We all love each other in a strange way. We’ve been together for so long it’s ridiculous. We knew each other as kids,” he says. Seven decision-makers, though, means there have been long gaps between projects since their regrouping in 1992. “One of the hardest things is it’s a democracy, but that’s also its strength,” he says. The artist Peter Blake agreed to illustrate their last album cover and ended up featuring the crossed-out titles that the band hadn’t been able to agree on. “Fortunately we’ve had the luxury of being able to work like that because we don’t have to work all the time,” says Suggs. The group split half of the publishing for each song between all the members, no matter who actually wrote them. “You’d see the singer of the band living in a mansion on the top of Hampstead and the rest of the band still living in council flats at the bottom of the hill,” he explains.

“Even when we made quite a lot of money it still got shared out. So we never really lost contact with the real world. ” When the band split in the 80s, and after he’d “wandered round in circles” for a while, Suggs did some music producing, including on a number one record. Reinvigorated, he started recording again and had a couple of hit solo records himself - his cover of the Simon & Garfunkel song Cecilia went to number four in 1996, giving him his highest charting solo single. Madness also reunited in the 90s and started touring again. In the gaps since, Suggs has presented television programmes and DJ’d on the radio. “I was doing a lot of different things I thought were going to fulfil me but they didn’t really and it always came back to the band being the most fulfilling thing,” he says. “It will always be the fundament at the centre of my creative life. But the great joy of it is I don’t do it every day of the week.” He’s looking forward to painting – “I’m quite good” – sculpture, maybe writing a play.

He’s been helping put on Our House, a musical soundtracked by Madness, in a prison for 18 to 30-year-olds and feels strongly about the importance of rehabilitation. “To me it would seem obvious that so many people reoffend that something’s not right,” he says. “Not that some of them aren’t bad, because they are, but a lot of them are just disturbed or they’re lost. Even if you look at it completely pragmatically, it costs something like 50 or 60 thousand pounds a year, apparently, to keep one of these young offenders, and they’re not contributing anything. “If you paid me fifty grand to hang around with a kid and try and work out what life skills he would have and put him in the right direction, that would be quite a rewarding job. I know that’s a bit utopian, but it seems to me a terrible waste to lock a kid up who’s 18 for three years and do nothing with him and then expect him to reintegrate into society with no life skills whatsoever – in fact worse than when he went in.” But for now, Suggs is most pre-occupied with the struggle against cancer.

“Alanah’s legacy could be in our lifetime that we actually find a cure for pancreatic cancer. And that is why it’s become all-encompassing for my whole family.” And, despite the sadness of loss, he's happy. “I hate the word content,” he says, though. “You should always be a bit worried and fed up about things and, like anybody else, I have my doubts. But I’m a very fortunate person.” ‘An Evening With Suggs and Friends’ is on March 12 at the Emirates Stadium, London, raising money for Pancreatic Cancer UK. Tickets at Suggs: My family values | Life and style | The Guardian My family values The musician talks about his family values Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/WireImage Jo Mears Friday 16 April 2010 19.05 EDT First published on Friday 16 April 2010 19.05 EDT Share on Messenger Close My early life was chaotic as we moved around a lot. Mum was a single parent, which was a big stigma back in those days.

She was a jazz singer who made ends meet by working as a barmaid and she took me round to pubs and clubs in Soho. My earliest memory of that time is of the legs of bar stools, and an occasional hand reaching down through a cloud of smoke to ruffle my hair. What's important is that my childhood made me stronger. When I was eight, Mum took me to visit my Auntie Diana in Haverfordwest and then left me there for three years because she felt she couldn't cope. It was a shock and I did feel bitter and angry about it for a while, but not any more. I get a bit sick of knocking my mum in the press all the time. She's a good listener – she's even fostered several children – and we are still very close. I've just been out for lunch with her and I see her every couple of weeks. Looking back, I realise she did the best she could at the time. I actually liked being in my auntie's family with my three cousins and I got to be in the countryside for the first time.

In Wales, I passed the 11-plus and went to the grammar school, but when I returned to London I fell in with the bad boys – who were the most interesting and intelligent. Mum had a good singing voice, but I knew I wasn't a natural. Mum always had lots of records and good books lying around and I got the name Suggs from a jazz singer called Pete Suggs, who I found in her jazz encyclopaedia. The two important things she passed on to me are to be truthful and the value of having a good conversation – one where you are utterly truthful and have no axe to grind. The worst trait in Soho was to be a bore and you had to be on the ball with so many intelligent people around, such as Jeffrey Bernard and Francis Bacon. My dad, by all accounts, was a heroin addict and I never knew him. I have at times been tempted to find out more about him but then I think, why bother? I wanted to leave that all behind me when I met my wife, Anne. We got together when I was 18 and we had our first child at 21. Having children made me grow up and stop thinking about myself all the time.

I felt with children it was a new beginning – I'm glad I didn't have a son, though, because I'd have been a rotten role model. I'm very proud of my fabulous girls, Scarlet, 26, and Viva, 24. They are both in a band but I'm more proud of them as human beings. If I have passed any values on to them I hope it is to be compassionate in every way – to have a notion of what is going on around them in any given situation and not to be oblivious. It's important not to miss the moment as it's happening. That is something my mum has taught me – to live in the right here, right now. Mum also made me realise that money is of no concern. Madness never made a lot of money because it was split between seven people. When I had less I was happier because I didn't need to worry about the car being scratched. As long as I've got my family, my shed and my cider-making equipment I'm happy. Watching the sun go down at our beach hut in Whitstable – even though it's the size of a phone box – is far better than being on a big yacht in Saint Tropez.

Madness are reissuing their albums Absolutely and Seven on 12 April as special editions with audio and video extras; madness.co.uk Madness’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm At least three artists exist by this name: 1) a British band 2) an American rapper 3) a Brazilian death metal group 1) Madness is a British pop and ska band from Camden Town, London, England that was formed in 1976. As of 2012, the group has continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although that has varied slightly over the years. Known for their cheeky humour and musical eclecticism, the band members called a "dysfunctional family", the group was one of most prominent artists in the late- 70s 2 Tone ska movement. As their career progressed, Madness moved closer toward conventional pop music and has become one of the most successful British bands of all time. The guys achieved most of their success in the 80s , often picking up new wave fans who enjoyed the band's eclectic sound. Madness, in fact, spent exactly 214 weeks on the U.K.

singles charts from 1980-89, thereby sharing the record for most weeks spent by a group in said charts with UB40 . Examples of some of their most popular songs include 1979's " One Step Beyond ", 1982's " Our House ", and 1984's " Keep Moving ". Formation The core of the band formed as "The North London Invaders" in 1976. This outfit included Mike Barson (Monsieur Barso) on keyboards and vocals, Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) on guitar and Lee Thompson (Kix) on saxophone and vocals. They later recruited John Hasler on drums and Cathal Smyth (better known as Chas Smash) on bass guitar. Later in the year, they were joined by lead vocalist "Dikron". This six-piece lineup lasted until part way through 1977, when Graham McPherson (better known as Suggs ) took over the lead vocals after seeing the band perform in a friend's garden. Smyth, who was poor on bass guitar, was replaced by Gavin Rogers, an acquaintance of Barson.

McPherson was kicked out of the band for too often choosing to watch football instead of rehearsing. As well, Thompson left the band after Barson criticised his saxophone playing. By 1978, the band had allowed McPherson to return, after filling in temporarily for Hasler (who had taken over vocals when McPherson was removed). Thompson returned after patching things up with Barson, and Daniel Woodgate (Woody) and Mark Bedford (Bedders) also joined the band, on drums and bass guitar respectively. After briefly changing their name to Morris and the Minors, the band renamed itself as Madness; paying homage to one of their favourite songs by ska/reggae artist Prince Buster. The band remained a sextet until late 1979, when Chas Smash rejoined and officially became the seventh member of Madness as a backing vocalist and trumpet player. Early success In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers.

The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts at #16. A performance of "The Prince" on popular UK music show Top of the Pops helped Madness gain public recognition. Madness then toured with fellow 2 Tone bands The Specials and The Selecter, before recording their debut album, One Step Beyond …, which was released by Stiff Records. The album included a re-recording of "The Prince" and the band's second and third singles: " One Step Beyond " and " My Girl ". The title song was a cover of the B-side of the 1960s Prince Buster hit "Al Capone". One Step Beyond… stayed in the British charts for over a year, peaking at #2. After the release of "My Girl", the band felt that they had exhausted the material from One Step Beyond…, and did not want to release any more singles from the album. However, Dave Robinson, head of Stiff Records, disagreed. Eventually, a compromise was made, and the band decided to release an EP featuring one album track and three new tracks.

The result was the Work Rest and Play EP, which was headlined by the song "Night Boat to Cairo", from the One Step Beyond album. The EP reached #6 in the UK singles chart. The following year, the band's second album, Absolutely reached #2 in the UK album charts. Absolutely spawned some of the band's biggest hits, most notably "Baggy Trousers"; which peaked at #3 in the UK singles chart. "Embarrassment" reached #4 in the charts, and the instrumental song "Return of the Los Palmas 7" climbed to #7. Change of direction In 1981, the band's third studio album, 7 reached #5 in the UK album charts and contained three hit singles. In an article in 1979, Chris Foreman explained that the band's music would move with the times, and change styles as time goes on. This was shown to be the case, as unlike the two ska-filled, fast-paced albums that preceded it, 7 was somewhat of a change in direction. Suggs' vocal performance changed significantly, and his strong Cockney accent from the previous albums had been watered down.

The album strayed from the ska-influenced sound of One Step Beyond… and Absolutely, and moved towards a more conventional and mature pop sound; a trend that continued with subsequent albums. Near the end of 1981, Madness released one of their most recognised songs; a remake of Labi Siffre's 1971 hit "It Must Be Love". The song climbed to #4 in the UK and entered the US charts at #33. In 1982, Madness released their only #1 hit to date, "House of Fun"; as well as their fourth studio album The Rise & Fall. The album contained their most internationally successful single to date, "Our House", which reached #5 in the UK music charts and # 7 in the US charts. In 1983, their single "Wings of a Dove" peaked at #2 in the UK charts. Their following album, Keep Moving, peaked at #6 in the UK album charts, and several singles from that album reached the top 20 in the UK music charts.

Decline and breakup In October 1983, the band's founder, keyboardist and prominent songwriter Mike Barson decided to leave the band, partly because he had relocated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He officially left the band in June 1984, following the release of "One Better Day". The six remaining members left Stiff Records and formed their own label, Zarjazz Records, which was sub-label of Virgin Records. In 1985, the label released the band's sixth album, Mad Not Mad. Barson's keyboard parts were filled by synthesisers, and in later years, frontman Suggs described the production as "polished turd". The album reached #16 in the UK charts, which was the band's lowest position on the album charts to date. Despite the poor chart showing, the album was listed as #55 in NME's All Time 100 Albums. The singles for the album fared even worse, with "Yesterday's Men" peaking at #18 in the UK charts. The subsequent singles, "Uncle Sam" and "Sweetest Girl", failed to make the top 20, which was a first for Madness singles.

The band then attempted to record a new album, and 11 demo tracks were recorded. However, musical differences arose between band members, and in September 1986, the band announced that they were to split. Barson rejoined the band for a farewell single, "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train", but did not appear in the music video. The band officially split following the release of the single, which reached a high of #18 in the UK. In 1988, four members of the band — Suggs, Chas Smash, Lee Thompson and Chris Foreman — created a new band, using the name The Madness. After one self-titled album and two singles that failed to make the the top 40, the band split. Reunions and The Dangermen In early 1992, "It Must Be Love" was re-released and reached #6 in the UK singles chart. Following that, the singles compilation Divine Madness was released and peaked at #1 in the album charts. Madness then announced plans for a reunion concert, Madstock!, which was held at Finsbury Park, London on August 8 and 9 of that year.

The original lineup reunited, performing together for the first time since Mike Barson left the band in 1984. Over 75,000 fans attended the weekend festival, and during "One Step Beyond", the crowd danced so much they caused an earth tremor which measured over 4 on the richter scale. A subsequent live album was released, and the associated single, "The Harder They Come" (a cover of Jimmy Cliff's 1973 song) reached #44 in the UK. The band continued to reunite for annual UK Christmas season tours and held three more Madstock! festivals; in 1994, 1996 and 1998. In 1999, Madness released their first studio album since 1986, entitled Wonderful. The album reached #17 in the UK album charts, and the lead single, "Lovestruck", gave the band their first new top 10 hit in the UK since 1983. Neither of the two subsequent singles from the album, "Johnny The Horse" and "Drip Fed Fred", entered the top 40 of the UK charts.

From October 28, 2002 to August 16, 2003, a musical based on Madness songs, Our House, ran at the Cambridge Theatre in west London. Madness played a role in the executive production of the show, and Suggs played a role in the production for a period of time, playing the central character's father. It won an Olivier Award for best new musical of 2003, and the performance was released on DVD on November 1, 2004. There was also a previous musical based on Madness songs, One Step Beyond!, written by Alan Gilbey. The musical had a brief run at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1993. In 2004, the band played a series of low-key concerts as The Dangermen, performing covers of classic reggae and ska songs. A lot of the songs were those played by the band when they were first forming, and the band performed the songs as a celebration of their 25 year anniversary. This led to the release of the album The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 in August 2005.

However, during the sessions which produced the album, the band's guitarist Chris Foreman announced his departure. Foreman left the band in mid 2005, citing "the petty, time consuming bollocks that goes on in the band" in a statement announcing his decision to leave. The band completed the album without him, and on release, it peaked at #11 in the UK album charts, which was the band's highest studio album chart position in 21 years. Although two singles were released, neither was a major success in the UK. The more successful of the two, "Shame & Scandal", reached #38. Despite the poor chart showing, the single reached #12 in France. In late 2006, this six remaining members of Madness began working on their first original album in seven years. However, for Madness' 2006 Christmas season tour, Foreman rejoined the band. In March 2007, the single "Sorry" was released from the band's upcoming album, peaking in the UK charts at #23. The single included a version featuring UK hip hop artists Sway DaSafo and Baby Blue.

Both artists were included on the music video which accompanied the hip-hop version of the song, but not on the original music video. Both music videos were also without Chris Foreman, despite the fact that he was a band member at the time of release. The new Madness song "NW5 (I Would Give You Everything)" and a re-recorded version of "It Must Be Love" were featured in the German film Neues vom Wixxer. The two songs were released in Germany as a double A-Side, and both of them were turned into music videos. While promoting "Sorry", Sway DaSafo confirmed in an interview with NME that he will perform in the recording of Madness' updated version of their song "Baggy Trousers", entitled "Baggy Jeans". The updated song will be featured on Madness' upcoming studio album, and also released as a single. DaSafo predicted the song will be a "huge smash gaurenteed", although the date of release is not yet known. Lyrical themes Although Madness were seen by many as somewhat of a humorous band with catchy, bouncy songs, they sometimes tackled, what were at the time, controversial issues in their lyrics.

"Embarrassment" (from the "Absolutely" album) was written by Lee Thompson, and reflected the unfolding turmoil following the news that his teenage sister had become pregnant and was carrying a black man's child. The band discussed animal testing in the song "Tomorrow's Dream". The band criticized the National Health Service in "Mrs. Hutchinson"; which told the story of a woman who, after several misdiagnoses and mistreatment, became terminally ill. The story was based on the experiences of Mike Barson's mother. Madness' final single prior to disbanding, "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train", commented on apartheid in South Africa. Skinhead controversy Early in their career, Madness were linked to skinheads; members of a British working class subculture that the media often stereotyped as racist (although the clear majority of skinheads were anti-racist). Not only were Madness, along with other 2 Tone bands, popular with skinheads, but it was said that the band members themselves were associated with the subculture. The band's relationship with the skinheads varied at times. Mike Barson was particularly displeased with the band's skinhead following, often finding it disappointing that so many were present at performances.

Prior to becoming a full member of the band, Chas Smash had been involved in fights with skinheads at performances. In one particular incident on November 18, 1979, Madness were supported by "Red Beans and Rice", who featured a black lead singer, and the band were prevented from completing the performance due to the racist chants from certain members of the skinhead filled audience. Suggs later came on stage to show his displeasure at their behaviour, but this didn't stop much of the audience from Nazi saluting at the end of the show. In a 1979 NME interview, Madness member Chas Smash was quoted as saying "We don't care if people are in the NF as long as they're having a good time." This added to speculation that Madness was a racist band supporting the fascist group National Front, although the band members denied those allegations. Numerous fans felt upset that Chas Smash's views were mispresented by the media, with yellow journalists just looking for a story in their eyes. Smash responded to the NME article in the song "Don't Quote Me On That". Eventually, band members denied their skinhead roots, which disappointed much of their skinhead fan base.

The issue faded as the years went by and the far-right skinhead groups failed completely in winning converts, their particular fringe shrinking massively while in the meantime Madness' international popularity grew. Awards The band's first notable musical award came in 1983 when they won an "Ivor Novello Award" for Best Song for the international hit "Our House". They received another "Ivor Novello Award" 17 years later for an "Outstanding Song Collection". In 2005, they were awarded the Mojo Magazine "Hall Of Fame" award, notably for being 'an artist's artist'. As of 2007, a campaign is taking place by fans of Madness for the band to be awarded a Brit award. Many fans and critics feel they have been overlooked over their past 30 years in the music industry. Website madness.co.uk 2) Madness is also the name of a hip-hop artist from Florida in the U.S. He has competed in many Grindtime Rap Battle events, and the rapper work is featured on the release 'Fresh Coast Perishables Volume One' as well as in his own underground albums. 3) Madness is a Brazilian death metal band.

Question: By what name is Graham McPherson better known as in the music world?
Answer: Suggs