Silver Convention: Madhouse [Full Album - Lyrics Video] (1976)

After Silver Convention’s meteoric rise with their 1975 debut-album and a US #1 hit with Fly, Robin, Fly, and an equally successful follow-up album and a US #2 hit with Get Up And Boogie, with television appearances all over Europe, the summer of 1976 saw trouble arise when the Levay/Kunze production team fired member Linda G. Thompson, the official reason being that “her voice was not suitable for the new album“, seeing they wanted a stronger lead vocal. After Claudja Barry (who had left an early Boney M. line-up) declined to take her place, they went to audition in New York for a black girl as it was assumed it would be of an advantage for the American market. They found then 22-year-old Rhonda Heath who was brought over to Europe in time to promote the group’s latest single No, No, Joe, before work continued on their third album in the fall of 1976. Kunze & Levay this time opted for a concept album with more lyrics than their first two albums, a sinister tale of M. trapped in a madhou