Download or read book Everything written by Simon Price and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as'Rock Book of the decade' by the Guardian in London, this is the fascinating story of this number one- selling, award-winning UK band. Beginning with their childhoods in South Wales, Simon Price traces the lives of the band through their early days, the mysterious disappearance of their songwriter, Richey Edwards, and concluding with the release of their multi-platinum albumThis is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Classic photos, unseen rarities -- including exclusive pictures from the band's official photographer -- and the most comprehensiveManic Street Preachersdiscography ever published, make this book unmissable. Has sold over 20,000 copies since its original publication in 1999 Written with the full co-operation of the band, their families, their friends and colleagues in the music industry.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers written by Marc Burrows and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that's spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD's and the odd specialist subject on Mastermind, Manic Street Preachers have become, in the words of their 2011 singles collection, national treasures. The Welsh trio (who, to many, will always be a quartet) have a uniquely intense impact on their fans; educating them as much as they entertain and inspire. This book collects fourteen brand new essays, one for each Manics album, from fourteen different writers from diverse backgrounds, tracing the band's impact on fans and culture and setting each of their works, from 1992's Generation Terrorists to 2018's Resistance Is Futile and beyond, into context. The essays are linked by a detailed month-by-month biography by music critic and Manics fan Marc Burrows (The Guardian, The Quietus, Drowned In Sound), who compiled and edited the book, tracing the band's development from glamorpuss upstart intellectuals to the elder statesmen of British indie rock, via an era-defining run of hits, a historic trip to Cuba, and one vanished genius. Manic Street Preachers: Album by Album includes a complete discography and is sourced from in-depth archival research, making it one of the most comprehensive and detailed works devoted to the band yet compiled.
Download or read book Nailed to History The Story of Manic Street Preachers written by Martin Power and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one the UK's most enduring, intelligent and credible rocks groups, but that quest for greatness has been a difficult, sometimes torturous path; a path which one of their number – the gifted and troubled Richley Edwards – abandoned for destinations still unknown. Nailed To History traces the slow yet inexorable climb of the South Wales band from their 1980s glam-punk origins, critically derided as 'Generation Terrorists', to their current position as respected art-rock intellectuals - a fact underlined by 2009's award-winning ‘A Journal For Plague Lovers’. This Omnibus Enhanced edition now includes a multimedia discography, charting every album and single release the band has made through a timeline of music videos and album art. Author Martin Power also examines the life and complex personality of Edwards, whose highly politicised, morally disquieting wordplay defined much of the Manics' early appeal - his personal demons writ large across 1994's dark masterwork ‘The Holy Bible’. Edwards' evermore extreme behaviour culminated in his sad, strange disappearance in February, 1995. A story of honour and enduring friendship, of 'culture, alienation, boredom' and despair, Nailed To History examines the Manic Street Preachers’ musical output and the personalities that make them an enduring artistic and political force.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers Biography written by Mick Middles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English language study of one of America's most controversial living filmmakers. Nick Johnstone combines insight into a troubled and private man with a detailed critical overview of Ferrara's career to date. Abel Ferrara: King of New York is a long overdue critique of one of modern cinema's darkest maverick talents.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers Biography written by Mick Middles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English language study of one of America's most controversial living filmmakers. Nick Johnstone combines insight into a troubled and private man with a detailed critical overview of Ferrara's career to date. Abel Ferrara: King of New York is a long overdue critique of one of modern cinema's darkest maverick talents.
Download or read book A Version of Reason written by Rob Jovanovic and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missing Manic - an authoritative look into the life and times of Richey Edwards, the Manic Street Preachers' guitarist who disappeared in 1995. The disappearance of Richey Edwards, troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, is one of rock and roll's great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide spot, in February 1995, a fortnight after Edwards had last been seen. The location of the car and the tape left in the deck - Nirvana's album In Utero - tended to point to one conclusion. However, it almost seemed too obvious a statement, and in A VERSION OF REASON, Rob Jovanovic unravels the complicated life and final days of Richey Edwards. Piecing together testimony from those close to Edwards Jovanovic seeks to produce an authoritative account of the life and times of Richey Edwards.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers written by Nick Wise and published by Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography tells of the Manic Street Preachers' rise to fame. It examines the bands' mixture of political statements and rock that earned them a following that grew and grew, Richey and his mental illness and disappearance, and how they carried on with the successful album Everything Must Go.
Download or read book The Story of Manic Street Preachers written by Martin Power and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- 1: When We Were Happy -- 2: The Bands Of Boredom -- 3: Convergences -- 4: Education Is Never A Waste -- 5: Escape Velocity -- 6: Advancing Into Battle -- 7: Signs And Wonders -- 8: The Fabulous Disaster -- 9: Everything That Glitters -- Picture Section A -- 10: Temporary Caesars -- 11: A Spell Of Riot -- 12: Ever Decreasing Circles -- 13: Intermission -- 14: A Beckoning Silence -- 15: In Absentia -- 16: Chosen -- Picture Section B -- 17: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap -- 18: Joy In Repetition -- 19: A Sort Of Homecoming -- 20: Know Your Limits -- 21: Slipping Into Fiction -- 22: What Immortal Hand Or Eye? -- 23: Return Of The Beautiful Boy -- 24: Nailed To History -- Multimedia Discography -- Recommend to a Friend -- Also Available -- Acknowledgements -- Discography -- Copyright
Download or read book Withdrawn Traces written by Sara Hawys Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archive On 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of 27. On the eve of a promotional trip to America, he vanished from his London hotel room, his car later discovered near the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide spot. Over two decades later, Richey’s disappearance remains one of the most moving, mysterious and unresolved episodes in recent pop culture history. For those with a basic grasp of the facts, Richey's suicide seems obvious and undeniable. However, a closer investigation of his actions in the weeks and months before his disappearance just don’t add up, and until now few have dared to ask the important questions. Withdrawn Traces is the first book written with the co-operation of the Edwards family, testimony from Richey’s closest friends and unprecedented and exclusive access to Richey’s personal archive. In a compelling real-time narrative, the authors examine fresh evidence, uncover overlooked details, profile Richey's state of mind, and brings us closer than ever before to the truth.
Download or read book Death of a Polaroid written by Nicky Wire and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Polaroid photographs by Mitch Ikeda and others of Manic band members and items from and locations of their travels compiled by Nicky Wire and others.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers written by Martin Power and published by . This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed biography of the award-winning band from their early years in South Wales, Richey's mysterious disappearance and their subsequent re-emergence as one of the most successful bands of the 90s. Includes a full discography.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers written by Marc Burrows and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that’s spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD’s and the odd specialist subject on Mastermind, Manic Street Preachers have become, in the words of their 2011 singles collection, national treasures. The Welsh trio (who, to many, will always be a quartet) have a uniquely intense impact on their fans; educating them as much as they entertain and inspire. This book collects fourteen brand new essays, one for each Manics album, from fourteen different writers from diverse backgrounds, tracing the band’s impact on fans and culture and setting each of their works, from 1992’s Generation Terrorists to 2018’s Resistance Is Futile and beyond, into context. The essays are linked by a detailed month-by-month biography by music critic and Manics fan Marc Burrows (The Guardian, The Quietus, Drowned In Sound), who compiled and edited the book, tracing the band’s development from glamourpuss upstart intellectuals to the elder statesmen of British indie rock, via an era-defining run of hits, an historic trip to Cuba and one vanished genius. Manic Street Preachers: Album by Album includes a complete discography and is sourced from in-depth archival research, making it one of the most comprehensive and detailed works devoted to the band yet compiled.
Download or read book In the Beginning written by Jenny Watkins-Isnardi and published by Blake Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the disappearence of one of the band's members, the Manic Street Preachers have attracted a lot of speculation and interest. In this text, Jennifer Watkins-Isnardi, who was close friends with the band during their formative days, reveals the truth behind the name.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible written by David Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. 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. 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 history.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers In Their Own Words written by Michael Heatley and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four volatile bursts of energy whose incendiary music and intelligent lyrics made them articulate spokesmen for a dissatisfied generation. This is the band in their own words - from their anarchic beginnings to their current mainstream success and life in the aftermath of guitarist Richey Edwards' disappearance.
Download or read book Assassinated Beauty written by Kevin Cummins and published by Faber & Faber Social. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An iconic selection of photographs of the most iconoclastic British band of the late twentieth century, Manic Street Preachers. In the early nineties, a group of disaffected and fiercely political young men from the Welsh valleys exploded onto a British music scene still in thrall to rave and acid house. With their early singles Motown Junk, You Love Us and Stay Beautiful the Manics reminded us at a moment of great hedonistic indulgence that pop is an instrument to provoke and destabilise. It was the legendary photographer Kevin Cummins who captured James, Sean, Richie and Nicky in their most uncompromising, glam-fixated early years. (Title) is a unique record of a band on a mission to reclaim rock n roll through literature, image and thrilling guitar pop. Working at the NME and already famous for his association with the classic images of Joy Division, The Smiths and Stone Roses, Cummins was the ideal photographer to capture the essence of a band who understood and manipulated androgynous and decadent imagery. These photographs document the period just before the release of Generation Terrorists (1992) up to Holy Bible (1995) and the subsequent disappearance of guitarist and lyricist, Richie Edwards. A revealing mix of studio shots and never-seen-before behind the scenes photographs of a band at arguably their creative zenith, (title) is the ultimate portrait of one of the last great British rock n roll bands.
Download or read book Into The Never written by Adam Steiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails' seminal album, The Downward Spiral, changed popular music forever—bringing transgressive themes of heresy, S&M, and body horror to the masses and taking music technology to its limits. Released in 1994, the album resonated across a generation, combining elements of metal, industrial, synth-pop, and ambient electronica, and going on to sell over four million copies. Now, Into the Never explores the creation and cultural impact of The Downward Spiral, one of the most influential and artistically significant albums of the twentieth century. Inspired by David Bowie's Low and Pink Floyd's The Wall, the album recounts one man's disintegration as he descends into nihilism and nothingness. Blurring the lines between autobiography and concept album, creation and decay, it is also the story of Trent Reznor (who is Nine Inch Nails) as he pushed himself to the edge of the abyss, trapped in a cycle of addiction and self-destruction. The Downward Spiral also presents a reflection of America and a wider culture of violence, connecting the Columbine High School shooting, the infamous Manson family murders, and the aftermath of Vietnam and the Gulf War. Featuring new interviews with collaborators and artists inspired by the album, Into the Never sets The Downward Spiral in the context of music of the era and brings the story up to date, from Reznor's recovery to his reinvention as an Oscar-winning soundtrack artist.
