A listen letter gets the guys searching for Manic Street Preachers guitarist/inspiration Richey Edwards and trying to understand what might have happened to the troubled rocker who helped craft the first ten years of the legendary British rock band.   SHOW NOTES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Must_Go_(Manic_Street_Preachers_album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/richey-edwards-manic-street-preachers-disappearance-missing-25-year-anniversary-a9308046.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Love_Us https://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msppedia/index.php?title=Richey_Manic_And_The_%274_Real%27_Incident_-_NME,_9th_October_1999 https://timnapalmstegall.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-manic-street-preachers https://exploringselfharm.com/2022/11/14/richey-edwards/ Excerpt from Steve Lamacqu book: https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,374432,00.html https://www.radicalartreview.org/post/richey-edwards-mental-illness-capitalism-lyrics https://repeatfanzine.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/withdrawn-traces-searching-for-the-truth-about-richey-manic/ October 2023 tour promo on BBC Breakfast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7JETGkyB0 Withdrawn Traces (the book): https://books.google.com/books?id=bU58DAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false 20/20 Sound episode about why they never broke in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR1uHtalY_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Bible_(album) https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/significant-dates-richey-edwards-story-8557171 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Bridge https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,239956,00.html https://www.nme.com/news/music/new-evidence-emerges-suggest-richey-edwards-staged-disappearance-2438975