"Pop music is about getting your own identity., " Brett says. " You just can’t take on someone else’s thing. And this was something that was mine. Loud, noisy music."
Brett has an older sister named Blandina
Brett’s mother was a primary school teacher, and his father was " a commuter - I have no idea what he did. I haven’t seen him for 20 years."
Brett on Justine - "She had a similar brain to me. I just got on really well with her."
Simon : "The police stopped me one night and said,’What the fuck are you? ‘ I said, ‘I’m a punk’ and they said, ‘If we ever see you around here with chains on, we’ll do you for an offensive weapon.’ "
It was around the age of 14 when he first realised he was gay. Although he’d started having sex with older boys, he thought it was only a phase, and he’d get a girlfriend later. He never did
One of his performing trademarks was his habit of slapping himself on the buttocks with his microphone. Asked to explain why, he shrugs. " I just wanted to do something fucking brutal . It’s my arse - why not slap it? "
Brett : " Simon was the straightest-appearing member of the band, and he turned out to be gay."
Brett is so fucking slow it drives me insane", Bernard complains to NME.
Bernard and Suede finally parted on July 2 1994.
Richard is the son of a conveyancing lawyer and a linguist
Sep 17 1994, Richard’s arrival was announced to the media
Describing Albarn as "an arsehole, someone who’s got a fucking big mouth and not much to say with it
Neil is Paul Codling’s younger brother.
Codling left the King Edward V school in 1992 to study english and Drama at Hull University and graduated in 1995
"They’ve made a glam album," sneered Butler, on the album Coming Up.
Mat has a brother named Richard Osman, who produces for a recent boyband TV spoof Boyz Unlimited, and is also the man behind BBC2 quiz show If I Ruled The World.
Asked about the themes of Blur’s album 13, Brett comments,"I dont really know what the themes of the album are. Oh, it’s about Justine, is it? Yeah, I read a bit about that. That’s a personal thing, isn’t it? Nothing to do with me, really. It’s something between two people, so it’s irrelevant to me."