Dan Woodgate

Daniel Mark "Woody" Woodgate (born 19 October 1960) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.

Daniel Mark Woodgate was born on 19 October 1960, in Kensington, west London, England.

As children, he and his younger brother Nick lived with their father in Camden Town, north London.

Nick is credited as a co-writer on the Madness songs "No Money", "Kitchen Floor", "Leon" [5] "Good Times",[6] "Don't Leave the Past Behind You"[7] and "Another Version of Me".

Woodgate is one of the less regular songwriters in the band, but is credited as co-writer on the hits "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" and "Michael Caine", as well as on the 2009 single "Dust Devil", which reached #64.

Most recently, he was the sole writer of "Round We Go", "Hello Sun" and "Long Goodbye" [12] for the band's 2023 album, Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie.

[14] Their biggest commercial success was with the singles, "Don't Call Me Baby", "Monsters and Angels", "I Think I Love You", "I Walk The Earth" and "I Say Nothing" from their first two albums Let It Bee and Honey Lingers.

The album began life as the second release for the Magic Brothers but eventually became more of a solo project for Woodgate.

[18] Woodgate grew up in Camden and was previously married to Jane Crockford of the Mo-dettes, and remarried in 1997 to Siobhan Fitzpatrick with whom he had one daughter, Mary.