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168 Songs of Hatred and Failure - A History of Manic Street Preachers
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure - A History of Manic Street Preachers
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The story of Manic Street Preachers is unique in pop. Raging out of the stricken mining communities of south Wales in the late 80s, they were bonded by friendships, family ties and a self-styled 'geometry of contempt', whereby James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore would orchestrate the daring intellectual broadsides written by Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781399607407
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781399607407
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure - A History of Manic Street Preachers
- Awdur / Author
- Cameron, Keith
- Current Price ex VAT
- £30.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £30.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2025-09-11
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Orion Publishing
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 560 pages
- Size
- 166 × 236 mm; depth 48 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Bywgraffiadau a Chofiannau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywgraffiadau - Cymysg (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies - Mixed (in English)
- FSC Status
- No FSC or PEFC logo/certification declared
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Seemingly condemned to mere cult status by a cruel juncture of artistic triumph, commercial failure and personal despair, the story took an agonising twist when the tragedy of Edwards' 1995 disappearance was followed by a remarkable rebirth built upon 'A Design For Life's hymn to the band's working-class roots, and then the award-winning, multi-million-selling album everything Must Go, a majesticsoundtrack to history and loss. Less than five years later, Manic Street Preachers played to 60,000 at the national stadium of Wales and had their second UK Number 1 single. Subsequent output has confirmed the band as both a wellspring of restless creativity and a barometer of the cultural conversation. Because it was music that saved them, it's through the prism of their music that Keith Cameron tells the definitive history of Manic Street Preachers, drawing on many hours of new interviews to dive deep into 168 songs, from 1988's debut single 'Suicide Alley' to the late day peaks of 2025's album Critical Thinking. Writing with the band's full co-operation, his book charts the dynamic evolution of a universe in which Karl Marx and Kylie Minogue happily co-exist, that accords Rush and The Clash equal favour, and where Morrissey & Marr meet Torvill & Dean via Nietzsche and New Order in a single four-minute pop song - all in the name of what Nicky Wire himself calls 'the fabulous disaster' of Manic Street Preachers.
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