Manic Street Preachers materialised in 1991 as indie rock’s self-styled Generation Terrorists (as they dubbed themselves on their debut album), but by the middle of the decade these working-class ...

The year was 1996. John Major was in power, Oasis and Blur were rising in the charts and a new European Super League kicked ...

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