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. 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. I met Mike Barson hanging around Hampstead School. 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. Because I was an only child, I was pretty insular and stubborn. I lived with relations in Wales for a while and came back to London. I only lived with my mum, so we were free agents. I was born in Hastings on a stormy evening on 13 January 1961. On the official Madness website, he has stated: He then went to the Quintin Kynaston comprehensive school at Swiss Cottage. Suggs spent three years of his childhood in his mother's hometown of Haverfordwest, Wales and had just started at a grammar school there when his mother moved to London. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger. I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, being sectioned. In a 2009 interview, before learning that his father had died decades ago, Suggs responded when asked about what happened to him: His father had left by the time Suggs was three. The couple had married in the Paddington area of London in 1960 and Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother. Graham McPherson was born on 13 January 1961 in Hastings to a Scottish father, William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975) and Welsh mother, jazz singer Edith Gower.
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