Manic Street Preachers
Formed in Wales in 1988, and obsessed with The Clash and Public
Enemy, the Manic Street Preachers survived early media vitriol to
emerge defiant and triumphant.
 Richey Edwards wrote lyrics for the first three albums - Generation
Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and most of the
songs on the harrowing The Holy Bible - before he went
missing on the day he and James Dean Bradfield were going to the US for
a promotional tour.
On 1 February 1995 Edwards walked out of the Embassy Hotel in
West London, climbed into his Vauxhall Cavalier car and was never
seen again.
Two weeks his car was found close to a well-known suicide spot
at the Severn Bridge. No body has ever been found.
Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore and Wire
persisted with the Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical
and commercial success, becoming one of Britain's premier rock bands.
A Design For Life (1996) sold 93,000 copies in its first week
of release and entered the UK singles chart at Number Two. The album Everything
Must Go became a huge commercial and critical success in the UK and
Asia.
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