‘Baggy Trousers’ by Madness is from their 1980 album Absolutely and was written by lead singer Graham "Suggs" McPherson and guitarist Chris Foreman, and reminisces about school days in the London comprehensive. It was released as a single on September 5, 1980 and spent 20 weeks in UK charts, reaching a high of No.3. Suggs later recalled in an interview that "I was very specifically trying to write a song in the style of Ian Dury, especially the songs he was writing then, which were often sort of catalogues of phrases in a constant stream.