![]() ![]() RGR released an album and three singles by London rapper, Just Jack. Smash & Friends), and it reached # 60 in the UK Singles Charts. He released a debut single, We're Coming Over, with The England Supporters Band (billed as Mr. In 2002, Smyth started up his own record label, RGR Music, at an office in Camden Town. ![]() ![]() Smyth led the folk-influenced band Velvet Ghost, which was most active in the early 2000. Smyth had a small part in Suggs' solo career, co-writing the song Green Eyes and appearing in the video for I'm Only Sleeping. He provided backing vocals on Morrissey's version of The Jam's "That's Entertainment". Smyth declined, claiming "I didn't fancy having to iron his socks". During the late 1980s, he became good friends with former Smiths' vocalist Morrissey, who once asked him to be his manager. In the early 1990s, Smyth became an executive for Go Discs and was responsible for reforming the original Madness in 1992 for Madstock!. After Madness broke up in 1986, he formed a new shortlived band, The Madness, with Graham McPherson (Suggs), Lee Jay Thompson and Chris Foreman. Prior to that he was a friend of the band members and danced onstage at concerts. In late 1979, Smyth became the last of the seven original Madness members to join the band. In 1976, The North London Invaders recruited Smyth to play bass until he was replaced in 1977 by Gavin Rogers. He was an occasional songwriter, becoming a more regular contributor over the course of Madness' career, and was credited as co-writer on the group's major international hit, Our House. He also occasionally performs lead vocals. He also plays trumpet, acoustic guitar and various percussion instruments. Carl Smyth, also known as Chas Smash (born Cathal Joseph Patrick Smyth, January 14, 1959, in Middlesex Hospital, London, England), is an English born musician of Irish immigrant parents, best known as a backing singer and dancer in the 2 Tone ska/pop band Madness. ![]()
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