Rent Madness: Take It or Leave It (1981)

Take It Or Leave It, originally released in 1981, is the highly entertaining story of how Madness, one of the most successful and enduring British bands of all time, originally got together. Filmed after the band had enjoyed a succession of Top 10 singles and had endeared themselves to the British public with the humour of their iconic music videos, it explores how a bunch of seven mates living in Camden Town in the late 70s got together to form the band – the jobs they left behind, the line-up changes, the rows, the laughs, and how their distinctive ska-pop ‘Nutty Sound’ evolved.