Suggs (singer)

Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), better known as Suggs, is an English singer, actor, former radio DJ, TV personality, and most famous as the frontman of the band Madness.

Early life

McPherson was born in Hastings, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. As a child Suggs was brought up in Hastings by his mother - his father having left shortly before he was born. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:

:" I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, being sectioned. He must be dead now. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger."

As a child he moved around a lot. He spent three years of his childhood in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and had just started at a grammar school when he moved to North London. He then went to comprehensive school at Quintin Kynaston, Swiss Cottage, North London. On the official Madness website he says

:" I was born in Hastings on a stormy evening on 13 January 1961. I only lived with my mum, so......

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