One Step Beyond...  by Madness

The Jamaican composer and producer Prince Buster was largely the inspiration for One Step Beyond... by the British Madness, whose debut would bring a small revolution to the British music scene at the turn of the decade. After all, the song The Prince is dedicated to him, while the words heard in the introduction of the song One Step Beyond are borrowed from the song The Scorcher by the Jamaican musician.

The Madness came out of nowhere playing ska, a genre of music that the immigrants from the Caribbean region had brought with them to Britain ten to fifteen years earlier and passed on to the country's white audience. Bands like Madness adapted Caribbean ska to the pop of that era and thrived. Thus, due to the British Commonwealth, an entire musical movement was created in the late '70s in Great Britain.

Madness's debut sold 300,000 copies in Britain and reached No. 2, in contrast to the U.S. where it was ignored, as the album reached No. 128.