8 April 2025
Richey on the left
Last February it was 30 years ago that former manic street
preacher Richey Edwards disappeared. A body was never found.
Manic Street Preachers released their 15th LP ‘Critical Thinking’ last February.
em>Great music magazine covers from the past…
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Melody Maker
20 July 1991
R.I.P. Richey Edwards
Back in time
23 December 2022
One of my all-time beloved MANIC STREET PREACHERS
classics is YOU LOVE US from their thunderous debut LP
(a double one) from 1992.
The accompanying culture sluts video clip still is as fab as the day
it came out, featuring the late Richey Edwards who disappeared
mysteriously in 1995. Still sorely missed. R.I.P.
We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won’t be mourned
We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms
We won’t die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Thrown some acid on the Mona-Lisa’s face
Pollute your mineral water
with a strychnine taste
You love us
You love us
You love us
MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Facebook
The single’s artwork
Nicky Wire remembers his close friend and his Manic Street Preachers‘s bandmate
Richy Edwards who disappeared without leaving a trace on 27 years ago.
Great album covers from the past…
19 May 2020
‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ by MANIC STREET PREACHERS.
Released 18 May 2009, 11 years ago. It was the band’s ninth
studio album featuring only posthumously published lyrics
by the late great Richey Edwards, who disappeared without
a trace on 1 February 1995.
The record’s cover art is a reproduction of an original painting
called Stare (2005), by Jenny Saville, who also contributed artwork
for the Manics magnum opus The Holy Bible.
Full album…
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Facebook
Great magazine covers from the past…
RICHEY EDWARDS
Manic Street Preachers
May 1995
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