Thirty years is a long time for a band to maintain a career, especially when our music listening and buying habits have changed so much.
For Manic Street Preachers, a band that fought its way, kicking and spitting, from the valleys of South Wales to the forefront of the British music scene, the past 30 years has been a journey of reinvention.
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