(Obviously “animal nitrate” is a play on “amyl nitrite”, a drug used by gay or bisexual men “chase the dragon” from So Young was a slang for smoking heroin.□)Ĥ – Was the second album ever to win Mercury Music Prize in Britain □ (beating, among others, “Walthamstow” by East 17 and “Connected” by Stereo MCs). Brett considered “Animal Nitrate” “a bit throw-away” and the band initially wanted to release “Sleeping Pills” as single instead, but Nude Records' owner Saul Galpern insisted otherwise. Sadly Corinne died in 2006 of liver cancer, she was only 62.□Ģ – Was the fastest-selling debut album at the time in UK - beating Frankie Goes to Hollywood's “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” from almost 10 years earlier.ģ – "Animal Nitrate" was the first Top 10 hit by the band (overall 3rd single after “The Drowners” and “Metal Mickey”), hitting Number 7 in □□ Singles charts. Corinne turned down the band's request to use the full shot of the two naked women and insisted they could only use a head and shoulders close-up of the women to protect their identity. Here are 5 things you may not have known about “Suede”:ġ – The cover photograph was taken by an American photographer Tee Corinne and in its entirety shows a woman kissing an acquaintance in a wheelchair (see my stories for the full picture □). Happy birthday to the first long-player of the Britpop canon that turns 30 today.□
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