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Manic Street Preachers: Wembley Arena, London

Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 January 1996

THE MANICS HAVE made a career out of keeping the most impossible of promises and breaking the simplest of trusts. They said they'd split up after their first album: they said they'd never play again if Richey were dead.

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