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80s pop star announces hes quit drinking after quietly battling with alcohlism

2025-04-24 00:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling

Madness frontman Suggs whose real name is Graham McPherson has announced hes quit drinking after opening up about his battle with alcoholism. The 64-year-old musician confessed that hes been struggling with drink for more than 40 years. But after four decades, he has finally realised that enough is enough.Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday, he candidly confessed: Ive been a bit sort of jocular about it, but no, it did get a bit serious. I mean, it was alcoholism, and theres no way in this horrible thing to admit to yourself, because I was a drunk. I was a good drinker, I was a bad drinker.He added to Nihal Arthanayake on the Headliners show: When youre drinking too much, it just becomes your sole raison detre. Im just [not] interested, basically, in anything other than myself and sitting there getting drunk. And then my family started to suggest I was getting a bit ... [too reliant].The 80s hitmaker, who has 17 top ten hits with his band Madness, continued: I went t...


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