Manic Street Preachers or Manics
are a rock band from South Wales. The Manics are (or at least were) Richey Edwards, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore and James Dean Bradfield.
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7am, February 1 1995. The Embassy Hotel, Bayswater Road, London. Oblivious tp the season's biting early-morning wind and steel grey skies, a gaunt, shaven headed man steps from the pavement of the hotel's entrance, climbs into his modest silver Vauxhall Cavalier, and speeds off, heading west. It is Richey Edwards, charismatic guitar player with the Manic Street Preachers, and he is never to be seen again.
Due to fly out that afternoon from Heathrow Airport with the rest of the band for a US tour to promote their most recent album, he quite literally vanishes into thin air.
Since their emergence in the summer of 1989 no-one was in any serious doubt that the Manics had something special. Their only problem was overcoming the current trend of dance music, the funky, groove tinged rock from Madchester, and cocurrent fashion for baggy, oversized jeans. The Manic Street Preachers seemed to have a better chance of running for parliament than cracking into the dance market.
Some thought the Manics would be a flash in the pan, that their brand of punk - glam rock and New York Dolls imagery would fail miserably, a painful embarrasment for the band. After all, the leading towardsdance music was in many ways a reaction to the Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi overkill that music fans of a more thoughtful disposition had to endure during the mid-Eighties.
The Manic Street Preachers were one, if not the only british metal / punk band to ride, thrive in and conquer not only the dance scene. How did they do this, with such odds stacked against them? And what led Richey Edwards to disappear just as the Manics were reaching stardom? How have the remaining members coped with his absence? Is he dead or just hiding? Some of these questions are easy to answer but others, his disappearance, lie buried. Only time will reveal the truth of what has, or hasn't happened to him, mp3, mp3s and mp3z.
Their albums are 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours', 'Everything Must Go', 'The Holy Bible', 'Gold Against The Soul', 'Generation Terrorists'.
Manic Street Preachers singles are... 'The Masses Against The Classes', 'The Everlasting', 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next', 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart', 'Tsunami', 'A Design For Life', 'Kevin Carter', 'Everything Must Go', 'Australia', 'She Is Suffering', 'Revol', 'Faster', 'From Despair To Where', 'La Tristesse Durera', 'Life Becoming A Landslide', 'Roses In The Hospital', 'Slash 'n' Burn', 'Motorcycle Emptiness', 'You Love Us', 'Love's Sweet Exile', 'Little Baby Nothing', 'Stay Beautiful'.