The Manics detonated the narcosis of the early Nineties music scene with punk glamour, an uncompromising political stance, and a debut album that still stuns today, says Mark Beaumont
The Manic Street Preachers’ modest roots never stopped them thinking big – not just culturally and commercially, but in terms of the storm they could kick up. Singer and guitarist James Dean Bradfield, bassist Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore had formed the band as teenage schoolfriends in the small valley town of Blackwood, Wales, in 1985 .
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