Manic Street Preachers

Barrowland, GlasgowManic Street Preachers began life as agents provocateurs given to proclaiming that they would set themselves on fire on Top of the Pops and quit the music industry after making one multimillion-selling album. This strategy was largely the creation of Richey Edwards, their precociously gifted but troubled guitarist who vanished in February 1995 and was legally declared dead last year.Before vanishing, Edwards bequeathed his bandmates a series of lyrics that they have finally ma...

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