The four friends grew up in the small Welsh mining town of Blackwood and became an inseparable group from an early age. Manic Street Preachers were a band before they ever picked up any instruments. Without Edwards it seemed the band’s short, but eventful, career was over. Bradfield flew to New York by himself, but the band quickly cancelled all further activity. Edwards and the band’s singer and guitarist, James Dean Bradfield, had been staying in London as they were due to fly to New York the next morning to promote the band’s third album, The Holy Bible, which had been released in the United Kingdom the previous August. ![]() Two weeks later his car was found next to the Severn Bridge, the major crossing between England and Edwards’ native south Wales. In the early hours of 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, lyricist and guitarist with Manic Street Preachers, left London’s Embassy Hotel and vanished.
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