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Suede: Generation of Swine

Martin Aston, MOJO, June 2011

Four pale, skinny suburban fops, inspired by Bowie and The Smiths, at the start of 1994 SUEDE were British pop saviours, poised for greatness. But sex, paranoia and an epic Orwellian concept album about drugs, porn and madness soon put paid to that. MARTIN ASTON looks back on the "monumental fuck-up" that was DOG MAN STAR.

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