Bibliography & Further Reading
Please note: all chapter titles in this book are taken from slogans on T-shirts customized and worn onstage by Richey Edwards between 1989 and 1994. All epigraphs throughout this book are taken from Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare.
The following texts have also verified facts, provided inspiration or helped in the writing of this book. A special mention should go to Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers by Simon Price (1999), one of the most exhaustively researched and passionately written band biographies in existence, and an invaluable resource.
Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn (1991)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965)
Bad Vibes: Britpop & My Part In Its Downfall by Luke Haines (2009)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
Born Yesterday: The News As A Novel by Gordon Burn (2008)
City of Night by John Rechy (1963)
Complete Poetry by William Wordsworth (2004 edition)
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1948)
The Damned United by David Peace (2006)
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (1961)
Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers by Simon Price (1999)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Hellfire by Nick Tosches (1982)
Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890)
In The Beginning: My Life With The Manic Street Preachers by Jenny Watkins-Isnardi (2000)
Kill Your Friends by John Niven (2008)
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris (2004)
The Last Sitting by Bert Stern (1982)
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (1986)
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault (1961)
The Manic Street Preachers: Sweet Venom by Martin Clark (1997)
The Nineties: What The Fuck Was That All About? by John Robb (1999)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1992 edition)
Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton (1975)
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez (1971)
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (1873)
The Selected Poems of Li Po by David Hinton (1998)
The Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord (1967)
Songs At The Year’s Turning by R. S. Thomas (1955)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet (1949)
Touching From A Distance – Ian Curtis and Joy Division by Deborah Curtis (1995)
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1953)
The Uses of Literacy by Jeremy Deller (1999)
The World According to Mike Leigh by Michael Coveney (1997)
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