Chris Foreman
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Christopher John Foreman (born 8 August 1956, London), nicknamed Chrissy Boy, is an English guitarist, best known as a member of a second wave ska band, Madness.
Chris Foreman started Madness with Mike Barson and Lee Thompson in 1976. Although always modest about his ability, Foreman was one of the group's main songwriters, mostly writing music with other members, usually Suggs or Lee Thompson, providing lyrics. After Madness disbanded in 1986 he formed a new band The Madness with Thompson, Suggs and Chas Smash but it was not successful and broke up after one album, also titled The Madness. Then he, alongside Thompson, created another group, The Nutty Boys with Thompson on vocals, who released an album called Crunch! The band are now known as Crunch!, and play in London every couple of years. Foreman reunited with all seven original Madness members in 1992, but in 2005 announced that he was leaving the band.
However, on Thursday 30 November 2006 it was confirmed that Foreman was returning to play on Madness' forthcoming UK Christmas tour, and he has been recording some new songs with Madness.
The same year he moved out of his Kentish Town home, and settled on the South Coast with his wife and 3 children.
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