Keith Cameron

168 Songs of Hatred and Failure (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Manic Street Preachers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399607438
• Artikelnr.: 73666824

Autorenporträt

A journalist and broadcaster since 1988, Keith Cameron is currently a Contributing Editor at MOJO. He has worked for three of the most successful and influential British music publications. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Sunday Times, Scotland On Sunday, Kerrang! and Q. Over the years, Keith's writing has become synonymous for irreverence, candour and passion: the many and varied list of artists he has interviewed includes AC/DC, Steve Albini, Arctic Monkeys, Kate Bush, Nick Cave, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey, Lydia Lunch, John Lydon, Jeff Lynne, Manic Street Preachers, Paul McCartney, Metallica, Kylie Minogue, Morrissey, Oasis, Pixies, Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Henry Rollins, Shaun Ryder, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, The Stooges, The Stranglers, U2, Paul Weller and Neil Young.