Born in Hastings on January 13, 1961, Graham McPherson is most known as Suggs,
nicknamed after jazz musician Peter 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 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 "B...