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Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

In the U.S., folkies took a leadership role in the exploration of blues roots. They worshipped authenticity, which was taken to mean an aged black man playing an acoustic instrument... Contemporary white performers were acknowledged only if their work focused on pre World War II forms.

In the United Kingdom, black American blues became available in appreciable numbers after World War II through records left behind by American G.I.s and sold in secondhand stores, product mail ordered by young enthusiasts, and pressings leased by English jazz labels. The trad jazz fad of the 1950s represented a pale, but enthusiastic, attempt to recreate the Chicago and New Orleans styles popular in the 1920s, best known as dixieland in the United States.

The Stones, formed in 1963, went on to become the British blues revival band both to achieve broad based popularity and advance the genre beyond the mere imitation of old models.


Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
  • Written by: Nicky Wire
  • Released on: May 20, 1996
  • Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock

"On December 31st 1999, Manic Street Preachers said goodbye to the 20th Century with a gig at Cardiff Millennium Stadium, attended by upwards of 50,000 people. They have had eight top ten albums and fifteen top ten singles."

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