📗 Libro en inglés 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE

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 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 majestic soundtrack 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