ROLLING STONE Guide: Manic Street Preachers

“Everything Must Go”, the Manics’ most important album, was released 27 years ago. A showcase of works

Essential The Holy Bible (1994) The legacy of the band’s lyricist and punk, Richey Edwards, who disappeared in 1995 and was declared dead in 2008. A misunderstood sophisticate: “I am an architect/ They call me a butcher,” it says in “Faster”. Edwards identified bulimia as the underrated illness of the decade: “I want to be so skinny that I blush from…

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