Nicky Wire: 'An artist? I'm a Polaroid freak'

For the best part of 20 years, Manic Street Preachers' bassist and mouthpiece has been collecting photos of the controversial band. As the best of them are published in a book, he tells the stories behind the shotsManic Street Preachers began their career with the following gambit. "We'll release one double album that goes to No 1 worldwide," said singer James Dean Bradfield in 1991. "One album, then we split. If it doesn't work, we split anyway."If the quartet from Blackwood, south Wales, didn...

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