Suggs
As front man of Madness, Suggs helped meld together Jamaican ska and British
rock to send a generation of skinheads into pogo-ing mayhem with some of the
biggest pop hits of the 1980s. The band split in 1986, but Suggs (nicknamed
after jazz musician Peter Suggs) bounced back into the charts with his debut
solo album The Lone Ranger (1995) and the Top 10 hits I'm Only Sleeping
(originally by The Beatles) and Cecilia (originally by Simon and Garfunkel). A
huge Chelsea Football Club fan, he recorded Blue Day as their official 1997 FA
Cup song before collaborating with ragga star Gen...
