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Suggs undergoes double knee replacement surgery

Madness frontman Suggs has undergone double knee replacement surgery after wearing out the cartilage by "jumping up and down" on stage for the last 50 years.

BANG Premier · Oct 1

Madness star leads tributes at Primrose Hill vigil for stabbed student Finbar Sullivan

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The Independent UK · Apr 27

Madness star Chris Foreman reveals incurable blood cancer diagnosis

69-year-old guitarist said he has ‘a long way to go before I get back onstage’

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025

Changingman Paul Weller reinvents himself again… as an actor in Steve McQueen’s Blitz

After more than 50 years and 17 studio albums, the Modfather takes on his first film role… to glowing reviews

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024

‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’: Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

At 66, the Modfather may have mellowed, but he’s lost none of his cool. Paul Weller reveals how he beat his demons, found a new sound – and why he’s still angry with the establishment

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2024

Paul Weller: 66 review – the Modfather holds his ground with a little help from his friends

Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and Suggs chip in on this solid affair, which peaks with some smouldering sax

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024

Madness: Theatre of the Absurd Presents C’est la Vie review – the Nutty Boys and Martin Freeman’s music hall act

With the actor as compere, Suggs and co’s first album since 2017 is a fairly sedate mix of uplift and melancholy

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2023

TV tonight: murder and money laundering on the mean streets of Edinburgh

Jed Mercurio’s new six-part financial crime thriller stars Peter Mullan and Morven Christie. Plus Suggs guests on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023

‘One of London’s best music venues’: Madness’ Suggs backs reopening of troubled Brixton Academy

EXCLUSIVE The 70s ska and pop band’s frontman says they have played the South London venue ‘a couple of times’ and is ‘pleased’ it might soon be welcoming back music fans

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

Madness frontman Suggs’ Tufnell Park townhouse is for sale for £1.5 million

Compared to other musicians’ homes to recently hit the market, the Madness frontman’s pad is relatively sedate

Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2023