Suede’s debut album celebrates its 30th birthday today. Not that I need any excuse to celebrate such a landmark record. This is arguably my favourite track.

I can still vividly remember the first time I saw Suede at the Brixton Academy with Alison Cloote that same year – 1993 – and they immediately became my new favourite band.

I had to meet their press officer Phill Savidge at the bar and I’d never met him before so I asked what he looked like. His colleague Polly said “You can’t miss him – he looks like a girl.”

I did find him and, by no coincidernce, today Phill really is one… well, a woman.

At that time Suede struck me as a cross between The Sex Pistols and The Sweet. But not on this delicate track, Sleeping Pills, with its searing guitar solo by Bernard Butler.