Biography
By the mid-’90s, Britpop was inextricably intertwined with lad culture, football jerseys, and Union Jack-waving nationalism. But the movement was actually born in an explosion of glitter, androgyny, and misfit deviance—all thanks to Suede. Formed in 1989 and fronted by the magnetically waifish Brett Anderson, the London group hip-checked grunge off the covers of the British weeklies with an earthquaking barrage of singles (”The Drowners,” “Metal ...Read more