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Suede

Rock music

Britpop

Glam rock

Suede spent years slogging their way around London's music scene before influential music paper Melody Maker put them on the cover and declared them "Britain's Best New Band," despite not yet having released a record. Fuelled by androgynous sexuality and the doomed romanticism of the Smiths, the band sowed the seeds of Britpop when debut album Suede shot to number one in the UK in 1993, propelled by the classic early singles "Metal Mickey," "Animal Nitrate," and "Stay Together." The album won the Mercury Music Prize, but tensions between songwriting duo Brett Anderson and guitar...