Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"The Prince\" is a song by British ska/pop band Madness. It was written by Lee Thompson, and was the band's first single. On 10 August 1979 the single was released through 2 Tone Records and peaked at number 16 in the UK singles chart, spending a total of 11 weeks in the charts.Although bearing similarities to Willie Dixon's \"Howlin' for My Baby\" as performed by Howlin' Wolf, \"The Prince\" is a tribute to Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster who highly influenced Madness (the band took their name from one of his songs, \"Madness\", which they covered on the b-side of \"The Prince\")."@en }
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- The_Prince_(song) abstract "\"The Prince\" is a song by British ska/pop band Madness. It was written by Lee Thompson, and was the band's first single. On 10 August 1979 the single was released through 2 Tone Records and peaked at number 16 in the UK singles chart, spending a total of 11 weeks in the charts.Although bearing similarities to Willie Dixon's \"Howlin' for My Baby\" as performed by Howlin' Wolf, \"The Prince\" is a tribute to Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster who highly influenced Madness (the band took their name from one of his songs, \"Madness\", which they covered on the b-side of \"The Prince\").".