30 years ago Manic Street Preachers’ Richey Edwards disappeared without a trace ‘I don’t think people think you are for real,’ NME journalist Steve Lamacq said to musician Richey Edwards in 1991.
Richard Edwards, (Richey James) he is the former rhythm guitarist for the pop group The Manic Street Preachers, whose abandoned car was found by the severn bridge in February 1995. but what is often forgotten is that he, then 25, actually went missing in London, from a Bayswater hotel.]
In 2020, Richey’s sister told GQ magazine: ‘We shared a bedroom and he would construct these amazing, imaginative stories in his mind that I can still recollect now 40 years later.
To prove how authentic the Manic Street Preachers were to NME readers, Richey reached for a razorblade.
On February 1, 1995, Richey woke up in room 516 the Embassy Hotel in Bayswater Road, London.
