Madness, Money & Music is the third album by singer Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

. It was released in 1982 and produced by Christopher Neil

Christopher Neil

Christopher Neil is a British record producer, songwriter, singer and actor.He has worked with Celine Dion, a-ha, Dollar, Paul Nicholas, Kim Criswell, Morten Harket, Mike + The Mechanics, Johnny Logan, Marillion, The Moody Blues, The Other Ones, Paul Carrack, Rod Stewart, Gerry Rafferty, Cher,...

. This Adult Contemporary ballad-led album includes the hits, "I Wouldn't Beg for Water" (US #64) and "Machinery" (US #57, UK #38), as well as the UK single "Are You Man Enough". Significantly however, the album featured an early recording of the song "Wind Beneath My Wings

Wind Beneath My Wings

"Wind Beneath My Wings" is the title of a song written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley. They recorded a demo of the song, which they gave to musician Bob Montgomery. Montgomery then recorded his own demo version of the song, changing it from the mid-tempo version he was given to a ballad...

", which would later be covered by Bette Midler

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

 in 1988 and many other artists after. The album was one of Easton's lower-charting efforts, only hitting US #85 and UK #44, but was hugely successful in Scandinavia, and the album sold Gold in Canada.

UK Track listing

Side One

1. "Weekend in Paris" (Sue Quinn)
2. "Are You Man Enough" (Billy Livsey, Graham Lyle)
3. "I Wouldn't Beg for Water" (Michael Leeson, Peter Vale)
4. "Machinery" (Julia Downes)
5. "Ice Out in the Rain" (Michael Leeson, Peter Vale)
6. "I Don't Need Your Word"

Side Two

1. "Madness Money and Music" (Barry Black, Brian Chatton)
2. "There When I Needed You" (John Lewis Parker, Steve Kipner)
3. "Wind Beneath My Wings" (Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar)
4. "You Do It" (Deborah Allen
   Deborah Allen
   Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...
   
   , Eddie Struzick)
5. "In the Winter" (Janis Ian
   Janis Ian
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   )
6. "Please Don't Sympathise"

US Track listing

Side One

1. "Machinery"
2. "Weekend in Paris"
3. "I Wouldn't Beg for Water"
4. "Are You Man Enough"
5. "Ice Out in the Rain"

Side Two

1. "Madness Money and Music"
2. "Wind Beneath My Wings"
3. "There When I Needed You"
4. "In the Winter"
5. "You Do It"

CD Bonus tracks:

1. "Some of Us Will"
2. "Loner" (Peter Vale)
3. "So We Say Goodbye"

Personnel

• Sheena Easton - vocals
• Micky Moody
  Micky Moody
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  , Phil Palmer
  Phil Palmer
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   - guitar
• Mo Foster
  Mo Foster
  Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
   - bass
• Bias Boshell - keyboards
• Ian Lynn - synthesizer
• Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke was drummer in the English band Mike + The Mechanics as well as having drummed for Cliff Richard, Van Morrison's band, Headstone, and Ezio. During the 1980s he successfully co-produced many of Tanita Tikaram's hits.Van Hooke grew up in Stanmore, Middlesex and attended Mill Hill...
  
   - drums
• Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti
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   - percussion
• Chris Hunter, Guy Barker
  Guy Barker
  Guy Barker is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra...
  
  , Tony Hall - brass
• Alan Carvell, Chris Neil, John Kirby - background vocals