Madness' criminal pasts as Suggs admits band could have been jailbirds

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Madness have shared a candid insight into their lawless pre-fame lives in an eye-opening new documentary. Before the group hit the big time with a string of much-loved hits including Baggy Trousers and It Must Be Love, the lads clocked up multiple brushes with the law between them.

Lead singer Suggs has admitted the band would have almost certainly been jailbirds had they not made it in the music business, saying their success saved them from a 'life of crime.' Speaking in the band's new documentary Before We Was Madness, the charismatic frontman explained: "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