Manic Street Preachers' the Holy Bible Evans David
Manic Street Preachers' the Holy Bible Evans David In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness,…
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Manic Street Preachers' the Holy Bible Evans David
In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men.This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found.
Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of