One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond isn’t the best album in the world - it isn’t 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.