One Step Beyond

Album: One Step Beyond (1979)
Charted: 7
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  • Hey you, don't watch that, watch this
    This is the heavy, heavy monster sound
    The nuttiest sound around
    So if you've come in off the street
    And you're beginning to feel the heat
    Well, listen, buster
    You better start to move your feet
    To the rockinest, rock-steady beat
    Of Madness
    One step beyond

    One step beyond

    One step beyond

    One step beyond

    One step beyond Writer/s: Cecil Eustace Campbell
    Publisher: PRINCE BUSTER MUSIC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 19, 1980, Madness performed "One Step Beyond" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    The song reached #76 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart...
    In the group's native England it peaked at #7 {for 1 week} on December 2nd, 1979 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart.
  • Robin from Seattle, WaSeattle-based rock/ska/reggae band MOON used to close their sets with their version of Madness' version of 'One Step Beyond.' The song appears on their 2010 EP The MOON Ep and can be seen on YouTube here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fnezdn6Diw
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