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- ISBN 9781917923774
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Putman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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‘An intimate and obsessive book, but one not only for the fans: this is a story about fresh starts and second chances and how to navigate them as an adult’ Mariana Enriquez
'Rodge has been absolutely brilliant. He's a big fan but not too close. He was very much a fly on the wall' Brett Anderson
'The candid biography of Suede we've all been waiting for' Steve Lamacq
The official, intimate and candid biography charting the second act of Suede during their remarkable second act.
This year will mark thirty-three years since Suede released their debut eponymous album and sixteen since their glorious and unexpected comeback in 2010.
Their two most recent albums - Autofiction in 2022 and Antidepressants in 2025 - both reached number two in the UK charts.
Based on exclusive and extensive interviews with the band, their family and friends, As One is an intimate and candid biography of one of the UK’s biggest band’s during the unlikely second act of a career that spans four decades. It is a book that studies the band from close up and afar, written by award-winning author Rodge Glass, who has been granted unprecedented access to the members at home, on stage, backstage, in the studio, rehearsing and promoting over the past three years.
It is an honest, long-term interrogation of what it is really like to be in Suede. The book asks difficult questions about how great bands survive and thrive over time, many years after their first flush of success. How do you build back up from nothing? How do you reconnect with your audience, while avoiding simply rehashing old ideas? How do relationships in a band change with time? How do you remake Suede?
He has been a fan of Suede since he was fourteen years old, when their 1992 magazine covers became his wallpaper, early photo shoots peppering his bedroom walls. He recorded Suede songs off the radio when he was supposed to be doing homework. He listened to live recordings on tape until the tapes died. In the three decades since, he’s seen the band live in their heyday and at multiple celebratory, post-reunion shows.
