| Mike Bio |
| Name: Mike Barson Other aliases: Monsieur Barso, El Barso Role in band: Keyboards/chief songwriter/xylophone Height: 6'2" Date of birth: 21/04/58 Place of birth: Edinburgh Now lives: Holland Starsign: Taurus Hair colour: Dark brown Eye colour: Grey Marital status: married to Sandra Wilson Children: Jamie and Timothy Quotes: �I did have a few classical lessons, but most of what I know I taught myself during those sessions.� Mike on learning to play the piano. �Once all the instruments were taken up nobody else could be in the band.� �All that bloody right-wing stuff is just fashion. One week they�re in the NF, the next it�s the BM. If you try to have an intelligent conversation about it, they�ve no idea what you�re talking about.� Mike on the rumours that Madness were members of the NF. �I think that people got the impression that I was stroppy when all I wanted was to get things done.� Mike on how he appeared in the band�s feature film, �Take it or leave it�. �When you start out it�s really different because you�re doing everything yourself and know exactly what�s going on. When people start doing things for you it spoils it quite a lot. You don�t have to lose control, but it happens because there�s so much work, you have to rely on other people. There�s too much going on- it�s got too big now.� �After I told the band I was leaving, I wanted it to be business as usual during the recoding of Keep Moving. But it�s possible that my mind may sometimes have been elsewhere. When we did the video for Michael Caine, I only had a small part. It was as if I was being written out of the band.� Mike on leaving Madness. |
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