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The Manic Street Preachers: "Despair, inspiration, happiness, despair, work, inspiration. Sport. That's the crux of it."

Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 1 August 1998

The secret world of the Manic Street Preachers revealed. Part One of a two-part exclusive.

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