Growing up against the backdrop of the miner's strike, listening to punk rock,
reading William Burroughs and studying Lenin, four school friends from
Blackwood, Wales were never average working class kids. Alienated and brimming
with political rage, they formed the band in 1986 and they blazed a trail of
androgynous glamour, heartfelt sloganeering and teenage angst on their debut
album Generation Terrorists in 1992 with a darker side emerging on The Holy
Bible in 1994 as chief lyricist Richey Edwards became increasingly depressed.
Edwards vanished in 1995 and though his body was ...