Cardiac Arrest (Madness)

Cardiac Arrest is a single of the British ska-pop band Madness . It is written by second singer Carl "Chas Smash" Smyth and reached England in the 14th place in the charts, which was seen as a setback after nine top 10 hits in a row. In the Netherlands, the Alarmschijf and came to a no. 17 ranking in the top 40.

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Cardiac Arrest was recorded in 1981 for the album Seven and its underlying message Work your not dead. The single version was released in February 1982 as a double A-side with the Japanese hit In The City .The accompanying video was shot aboard an old biplane; Carl Smyth plays the hurried commuter on his way to work gets stuck in a traffic jam and all the stress of cardiac arrest threatens to collapse. Because this topic number excommunicated by two DJs from BBC Radio One was that both had lost their father to a heart attack. "My father had a heart attack, so I wrote Cardiac Arrest" said Carl Smyth in 1985 when Madness had long since switched to more serious repertoire.