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Alan Vega
As punk rock raged in the UK in 1978, one of the really strange sights was
experimental New York synth duo Suicide who could be seen trundling around
Britain as a support act for The Clash. The agitated crowds were unimpressed by
their primitive, electro surges and monotonous drum machine rhythms, and there
was a report of an axe being thrown at them one night in Glasgow. Frontman Alan
Vega responded by picking up a glass bottle, smashing it over his head and
glaring straight back at the baying mob. Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Boruch Alan
Bermowitz fell in love with music after see...
