![]() ![]() Famously pieced together amid boasts that the album would sell 16 million copies globally and precipitate their immediate split, the album eventually went Gold and instead prompted a 30 year career, one marked by triumph, and the loss of Richey Edwards in 1995.īut ‘Generation Terrorists’ is the starting point. Nowhere is this fannish quality more perfectly expressed on record than the band’s debut album ‘Generation Terrorists’. If the band’s origins still have a coy innocence about them, then that’s perhaps because then and now Manic Street Preachers have a certain fannish quality, an exuberance for music lore expressed in deft onstage covers of ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ and interviews peppered with references to Simple Minds deep cuts. ![]()
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