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...