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Suede are Brett Anderson (voice), Richard Oakes (guitar), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums) and Neil Codling (keyboards)
Anderson and Osman formed a band as long ago as 1989. They finally met up with their guitarist (until 1994) Bernard Butler after he answered an advert in Melody Maker and initially existed as a trio using a drum machine.
In March 1993 Suede released their eponymously-titled Suede. The LP itself went straight to Number One outselling its nearest rival (Depeche Mode) by four copies to one and became the fastest selling debut album since Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" in 1984, turning gold on its second day of release. Later in the same year, and perhaps most poignantly, it also won the 1993 Mercury Music Prize.
Two months after this burst of activity, Suede began recording their second LP with Ed Buller at Master Rock. The result - Dog Man Star - is still considered by some to be the best album this decade. coming up was released in September 1996, begat five Top Ten singles and heralded a 14-month world tour, Suede's biggest tour to date by far.
In October the following year they released Sci-Fi Lullabies, a 27-track double album collection of b-sides which is widely regarded as the best of its kind (even "Hatful Of Hollow" ripped off "the kids" if you checked your Peel tapes) and which included no cover versions, no instrumentals and no remixes.
In mid-1998, Suede set about recording their fourth album and the thirteen songs which you are going to know as Head Music - a blazing, twenty-first century rock 'n' roll of a type that couldn't be made anywhere else in the world.
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Albums
| Year | Title | |
| 1994 | Suede | |
| 1994 | Dog Man Star | |
| 1996 | Coming Up | |
| 1997 | Sci-Fi Lullabies | |
| 1999 | Head Music | |
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