Manic Street Preachers – Stay Beautiful music video 975.3K 2009

Manic Street PreachersStay Beautiful

Directed by Walter Stern

Stay Beautiful is a defiant, youth-driven track calling for resistance to conformity. The video shows suburban rebellion, smashed TVs, and band performance—visually echoing the call…

Manic Street Preachers, alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales
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About · Manic Street Preachers

Formed 1986 · Blackwood, Wales · alternative rock · Columbia Records

Manic Street Preachers (also informally referred to as the Manics) are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. Since 1995, the band has been a three-piece of Nicky Wire (bass/lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (vocals/guitar/occasional lyrics) and Sean Moore (drums). They form a key part of the 1990s Welsh Cool Cymru cultural movement. The band's early releases were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a wider alternative rock sound. Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" gained them a loyal… via Wikipedia

Band Members: James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore, Richey Edwards

Awards: MOJO Awards

Discography

Manic Street Preachers’s studio albums / EPs · 15

Influenced by

Artists who shaped Manic Street Preachers’s sound