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}} Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), better known as Suggs, is an English singer, actor, former radio DJ, television and radio personality. Suggs came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist for the ska/pop band Madness, which released fifteen singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s, including "My Girl", "Baggy Trousers", "Embarrassment", "It Must Be Love", "House of Fun", "Driving in My Car", "Our House", "Wings of a Dove" and "Lovestruck". Suggs began a solo career in 1995, releasing two studio albums. His solo hits include "I'm Only Sleeping", "Camden Town", "Cecilia", and "Blue Day". ==Early life== Graham McPherson was born on 13 January 1961 in Hastings, Sussex, England, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)〔General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. Volume 32 (London, England: General Register Office), 164. The death of William Rutherford McPherson was registered in Birmingham between January and March 1975〕 and jazz singer Edith Gower. The couple married in Paddington in 1960, and Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother. His father had left by the time Suggs was age three. In a 2009 interview when asked about what happened to his father: I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: (addicted to ) 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. Suggs spent three years of his childhood in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and had just started at a grammar school when his mother moved to North London. He then went to a comprehensive school at Quintin Kynaston, Swiss Cottage, North London. On the official Madness website, he has stated: I was born in Hastings on a stormy evening on 13 January 1961. I only lived with my mum, so we were free agents. She was a singer in the pubs and clubs. We moved to Liverpool then London. I lived with relations in Wales for a while and came back to London. Because I was an only child, I was pretty insular and stubborn. All the upheaval made me lazy academically, so by the time I got to Quintin Kynaston school in St John's Wood I didn't bother much, I stayed onto the() sixth form for social security reasons, and got two O-levels and a CSE on the way. I met Mike Barson hanging around Hampstead School. Suggs got his nickname from randomly sticking a pin in an encyclopaedia of jazz musicians (hitting Peter Suggs) while he was still in school, to avoid being labelled as the member of an ethnic minority owing to his Scottish name. To capitalise on the name he went as far as to create a myth about it, writing lines like "Suggs is our leader" on the walls and only answering to that name. After leaving school at age 15 he worked at a butcher's for eight months, his first proper job.〔 The first gig he went to was The Who supported by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band in 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suggs (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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