Michael Caine (song)

Michael Caine is a single from 1984 of the British ska-pop band Madness . It is written and sung by Carl "Chas Smash 'Smyth (instead of frontman Suggs ) and took eleventh place in England. The B-side is If You Think There's Something

History [ edit ]
Michael Caine was the end of 1983 recorded for the album Keep Moving with samples of the same actor, who says, "My name is Michael Caine." Caine did not initially cooperate, but thanks to his daughter, a big fan of Madness, he changed their mind.

The song was released on January 30, 1984; pianist and founder Mike Barson was at that time already resigned but still worked part in the video clip that was a tribute to the nearly 20-year-old spy movie The Ipcress File (1965). The to Amsterdam but moved Barson was not prepared for the recordings experienced delays and therefore can only be seen at the beginning of the clip.

In the Madness concepts serious clip Smyth plays a detective who is tipped by Suggs on the whereabouts of "Michael Caine (played by guitarist Chris Foreman ). He goes there with the rest of the band off to subject him to an interrogation. Vain, "he can not remember his own name".

Smyth, that the controversy surrounding the two-year-old single Cardiac Arrest was not forgotten, he would later reveal that the figure from Michael Caine was an informer in the Irish question. "And once you informer you shake it safe; your customers see you as a snitch and those who are denounced want to see your blood."