British album certifications – Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorist". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 July 2014. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20 Year Collector's Editions". Manic Street Preachers. 22 October 2018 . Retrieved 27 June 2020.

Saturday at Glastonbury 2023: Guns N' Roses, Lizzo, the Pretenders – follow it live! | Glastonbury 2023". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 June 2023. Edwards assumed responsibility for the cover; among ideas he had were using Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, [21] a Jesus figure inside a container of urine; [22] the Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe photographs; a sandpaper sleeve that would scratch the album itself as well as anything else that it was shelved by (similar to Mémoires by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord); [23] as well as several other famous religious paintings; but these suggestions were either declined or found too expensive. [21]

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Price, Simon (1999). Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers). London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0139-2. After the release of "Suicide Alley," Edwards joined the band on rhythm guitar and contributed to lyrics alongside Wire. Edwards also designed record sleeves and artwork and drove the band to and from gigs. [2] Jamieson, Natalie (23 September 2014). "Manic Street Preachers to tour classic 1994 album". BBC News . Retrieved 23 September 2014. Gourlay, Dom (5 November 2012). "Manics Monday: Why Generation Terrorists was the most important debut of the 1990s". Archived from the original on 26 December 2012 . Retrieved 4 January 2013.

Having first encountered the band while assisting on the Heavenly singles, Eringa recalls the Manics’ mindset as one of “super-excitement, a sense that they were doing something that mattered and was really brilliant”. St Luce noted their “utter self-belief” but also found them “shy, well-mannered gentleman. I liked it that people would go ‘Oh, God we’ve got the Manics coming here… they’re going to trash the place.’ But they made their beds at hotels and things like that.” Yet there were undoubtedly dark undercurrents brewing. Manic Street Preachers announce 'Everything Must Go' 20th anniversary stadium gig in Swansea". NME. 9 November 2015 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. Price, Simon (1999). Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers) (Firsted.). Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0139-2. The band also made a cover version of the song " Suicide Is Painless" which peaked at number 7 in the UK charts, spending 3 weeks in the Top 10, and giving the band their first ever Top 10 hit single. [17] We Salute you Must Hear Guitar Heroes - This Issue: James Dean Bradfield on John McGeoch". Guitarist. November 2010.All This Futile Beauty: Richey Edwards' Last Words". Articles.richeyedwards.net . Retrieved 29 April 2017. In 2000, they released the limited edition single " The Masses Against the Classes". Despite receiving little promotion, the single sold 76,000 copies in its first week and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 16 January 2000, beating "U Know What's Up" by Donell Jones to the top. The catalogue entry for the single was deleted (removed from wholesale supply) on the day of release, but the song nevertheless spent 9 weeks in the UK chart. [17] Hot wire: Warner/Chappell sign Manic Street Preachers – Publishing – Music Week". Musicweek.com . Retrieved 16 April 2018. We felt like we were living in a vacuum," says James. "Everything that we'd been told was great about where we were from had been destroyed economically, culturally. So you start looking for other things, in this barren wasteland of the 80s, and music was the obvious choice. Because, number one, it seemed completely alien to the surroundings you'd grown up in.

A film-interview-documentary about their album Generation Terrorists was screened on Saturday 20 October 2012 at Chapter Arts Centre as part of the Sŵn Festival, with all profits donated to Young Promoters Network. [81] The film was made available in the 20th-anniversary re-issue of Generation Terrorists. [82] Rewind the Film to The Ultra Vivid Lament (2013–present) [ edit ] It was typical of the Manics that they would invite Traci Lords, porn star and ex-girlfriend of Slash, to sing a duet with Bradfield on Little Baby Nothing, one of the key songs on Generation Terrorists. In her dull voice, the lyrics (‘ My mind is dead, everybody loves me, wants a slice of me…’) became even more disturbing. Gold Against the Soul Deluxe Re-Issue". Manic Street Preachers. 11 March 2020 . Retrieved 27 June 2020.

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a b Trendell, Andrew (12 March 2020). "Manic Street Preachers on their "expansive" new album and James Dean Bradfield's "electric" new solo record". NME . Retrieved 26 June 2020. Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". entertainmentghana.mobi. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013 . Retrieved 6 January 2013. The Manics have headlined festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading. They have won eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards. [5] They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, and have had one nomination for the MTV Europe Music Awards. They have reached number 1 in the UK charts four times: in 1998, with This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and the single " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", in 2000 with the single " The Masses Against the Classes", and in 2021 with The Ultra Vivid Lament. [6] They have sold more than ten million albums worldwide. [7] History [ edit ] Formation and early years (1986–1991) [ edit ] When a man is young, he is usually a... @". Manics.nl. 12 July 2007. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010 . Retrieved 14 September 2010. a b "What's in a Band Name? Here Are the Stories Behind the Monikers – Features – Music – The Independent". The Independent. 11 April 2008 . Retrieved 25 December 2014.