[4] In his teens Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as the Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman.

After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann left the band,[7] going on to front Elastica.

[citation needed] Even before Suede's first album appeared in stores, Anderson's androgynous style and vague "confessions" about his sexuality stirred controversy in the British music press.

His infamous comment that he was "a bisexual man who never had a homosexual experience" was indicative of how he both courted controversy and a sexually ambiguous, alienated audience.

Combining Morrissey's homoerotic posturing with David Bowie's glam theatrics, Anderson achieved rapid fame in the UK, though not in the US.

Following persistent rumours, the boss of the band's former label, Nude Records' Saul Galpern, confirmed to the NME that Suede would be playing together again.

The accompanying video for Anderson's first single "Love Is Dead" debuted on UK television in February 2007, quickly finding its way to YouTube.

The keyboardist-producer on his album is Fred Ball, and former Suede bass player Mat Osman joined the live band on tour.

One of the songs "Back to You" written with Fred Ball of the Norwegian band Pleasure is a duet with French actress Emmanuelle Seigner.

On tour, he was joined by Jim Dare [Minuteman], Didz Hammond (Dirty Pretty Things), Angie Pollock (Goldfrapp), Sebastian Sternberg (Pleasure, Marina and the Diamonds), Kris Sonne and Amy Langley, thus giving the songs a more art-rock edge.

Black Rainbows – Anderson's fourth solo album was released through BA Songs, distributed by EMI Music Service in September 2011.

Anderson stated that he had taken as reference points some of his old favourite records like PIL's "Rise", and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Juju while conceiving the songs.

While Anderson had been taking drugs moderately during Suede's career up to that point, he was addicted for two and a half years, but stopped in late 1999, when somebody very close to him became ill.