A sixteen year old Emma Forrest with a 26 year old Richey Edwards, in 1994.
From Emma Forrest’s Substack; What Richey Manic Taught Me.
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📸 Margaret Macaulay.
Glasgow, July 1993.
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Previously unpublished photo by
Martyn Goodacre. London, 1991.
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30 years ago on this date, Richey Edwards’ beloved dog Snoopy was sadly put to sleep.
“He was inconsolable, the most devastated I’d ever seen him.” - Rachel Edwards.
📸 Rachel Edwards.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #Snoopy #OnThisDay #ManicStreetPreachers #ThirtyYears
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30 years ago, Richey decided to shave his head after ending his 4 year on/off relationship with Jo.
“Remember, I said I cut my hair after every emotional trauma?” - Richey Edwards.
📸 Rachel/Richey Edwards.
📕 Withdrawn Traces.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers #ThirtyYears
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Read this newly-translated interview with Richey Edwards, published 30 years ago, in January 1995.
“I think it's the delicacy that keeps you going and helps you survive.”
www.facebook.com/groups/10146...
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers #ThirtyYears
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Happy New Year, from all of us at Painfully Beautiful! 🎆
📸 Martyn Goodacre, 1991.
#HappyNewYear2025 #PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers
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New, high quality upload from TravisBickle1963 - Manics live in #Bristol, 25th of March, 1992.
youtu.be/O3S_ilNs1gg?si…
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers
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Richey with his parents, Graham and Sherry Edwards.
📸 Mitch Ikeda, 1993.
#PainfullyBeautiful #HappyBirthday
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From Manic Street Preachers Instagram.
📸 Mitch Ikeda, 1994.
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Happy Birthday, Richey James Edwards!
You are Painfully Beautiful, in every way.
We love you so much, and we always will!
🥀🌹💔❤️🩹❤️
📸 Previously unseen from the Martyn Goodacre archives, October 1994.
#PainfullyBeautiful #HappyBirthday #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers
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Richey Edwards’ last ever setlist, gifted to us by Pam from Useless Generation prints. 🖼️
Also, Pennie Smith’s stunning photo of Richey, onstage 30 years ago today at The Astoria, London - for the very last time.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay
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30 years ago today, Richey James Edwards played his last ever gig, with Manic Street Preachers, at The Astoria, London.
Here are his last moments onstage.
📸 Joyce Louie.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay
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On this day in 1994, Pennie Smith took these photos of Manic Street Preachers backstage at The Astoria, London, before what would turn out to be Richey Edwards’ last ever gig.
“A band ready to destroy” - Nicky Wire.
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Richey Edwards playing his penultimate gig with Manics at The Astoria, 30 years ago today.
📸 Mark Webb.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #OnThisDay #ManicStreetPreachers
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30 years ago today, Richey James Edwards briefly became James Dean Bradfield’s guitar hero in his penultimate gig, during Motown Junk! 🎸
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #JamesDeanBradfield #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay
youtu.be/PEGP87LKNYA?...
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30 years ago today, Richey James Edwards played the first of his final 3 gigs with Manic Street Preachers.
📸 Mitch Ikeda.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay
youtu.be/3VOLAVx6e9U?si…
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On this day in 1994, Richey Edwards gave his penultimate interview, w/Ruth Baza, in which he said:
“I would escape to a very distant mountain, I would live in a cave and no one could ever find me.”
Read it in full: www.facebook.com/groups/10146...
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #Manics #OTD
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Published 30 years ago today: @simonprice.bsky.social “This was the ‘fun’ accompaniment to the heavy Richey interview. Originally this was all I was meant to write, but then Richey decided he wanted to talk to me, so this one got put on hold for a week.”
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #Manics
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30 years ago today, Richey James Edwards gave his last televised interview, with Per Sinding-Larsen, before Manics played Stockholm Cirkus in Sweden.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyManic #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay #Nineties #Stockholm #Sweden
youtu.be/3YpvQf00pZ4?...
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Richey James Edwards in Copenhagen, Denmark. On this day in 1994.
📸 Barry J Holmes.
Edit by Sandra Alarcon/LilacWine26.
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On this day in 1989, Richey Edwards played his first gig at the Mandela Bar, Swansea Uni Student Union.
“I used to live with him at Uni. Yes I took that b&w photo (along with others) at his first gig.”
📸 Dan Roland.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyManic #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay
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Also on this day in 1994, @simonprice.bsky.social is ‘summoned’ by Richey to give his most brutally honest interview to date, for the Melody Maker’s December 3rd issue.
📸 Tom Sheehan.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyManic #SimonPrice #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay #Paris
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James Dean Bradfield & Richey James Edwards in Paris, France, on this day in 1994.
📸 Tom Sheehan.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyJames #RicheyManic #RicheyJamesEdwards #JamesDeanBradfield #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #Paris #France #OnThisDay #OTD #Nineties
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30 years ago today, Tom Sheehan photographed Richey Edwards in Montparnasse Cemetery, & Catacombs of Paris, France.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyJames #RicheyJamesEdwards #RicheyManic #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay #OTD #Nineties #TomSheehan #Catacomb #Paris
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Richey Edwards (top right), Pontllanfraith Junior School football team, late 1970’s.
📸 Kurt Parry.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyEdwards #RicheyJamesEdwards #RicheyJames #RicheyManic #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #Seventies #Pontllanfraith #Wales
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Richey Edwards with fan Jesse Von Sinn and friend, backstage at the Madrid Sala Aqualung, Spain, on this day in 1994.
📸 Jesse Von Sinn.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyJamesEdwards #RicheyEdwards #RicheyManic #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay #Nineties #OTD #Madrid #Spain
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Manic Street Preachers at Rolling Stone Club, Milan, Italy.
On this day in 1994. 📸 P.G Brunelli.
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Richey Edwards at Rolling Stone Club, Milan, Italy.
On this day in 1994.
📸 P.G Brunelli.
#PainfullyBeautiful #RicheyJames #RicheyEdwards #RicheyJamesEdwards #RicheyManic #Manics #ManicStreetPreachers #OnThisDay #Nineties #Milan #Italy
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