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Brett
Andersson
Vocalist and main songwriter |
Born on
September 29, 1967, he was named after Roger Moore's character in
"The Persuaders", Lord Brett Sinclair. Brett and Matt grew
up together in Haywards
Heath. Brett held the School record for 800m for a couple of years,
being good at sports was a way for him to avoid getting beaten up . |
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Richard
Oakes
Guitarist |
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the youngest member of
Suede, he was born on October 1, 1976. He joined Suede in -94, after
Bernard's departure. The first one that he told that he was a member
of Suede, was his cat. The first song that Richard wrote was
"Together", and he's now written several songs. |
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Simon
Gilbert
Drummer |
Simon came to
the world on May 23, 1965. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon (the
Shakespear place). Simon is gay and was once beaten up for beeing
that. One of his favourite TV series is "Queer as Folk".
Simon has a dog called George, that he likes to take on a walk when
they are not on tour, and while on tour he talks a lot about him.
George is starring in the video for "Saturday night".
Simon is also fond of video recording, and he's said to have more
than 60 3h tapes with Suede, how we'd love to get our hands on that
collection. Some of the stuff that Simon has recorded can be viewed
in the videos for "Europe is our playground" and
"Filmstar".
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Matt was born
1967-10-09. He grew up in Haywards
Heath, and studied at the London Economy college. He's one of the
founder members of Suede and he has so far written one song,
"Europe is our playgroun". That song is one of the
absolutely best Suede songs, so he ought to write some more. When
asked what lifelong ambition he has achived, he's answerd "No.
1 in
Finland". |
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